Dear Professionals: I wanted to share with you that Open Source NGL 3.0 series is released and my library started using it. Those of you who are using the old version can now upgrade to the new version. Some of the good features that impressed me are 1. NGL 3 is now migrated to the latest technologies. Like Java 6.0, Spring framework, Hibernate, Apache tomcat 6.0, Postgresql 8.3&8.4. This is infact a good move by moving away from old jboss and other older technologies 2. My catalogue searches have become very very fast especially because NGL is now using search engine technology(Similar to what Google, Yahoo web searches) for catalogue searches. I have got a data sheet from them claiming that on a test database of 2 crore catalog records results were retrieved in fractions of a second 3. Now NGL automatically sends SMSs (Mobile alerts) to my users when ever a book is issued or received from them. This has uplifted my library's fame and face in our institution 4. OPAC is more cool and sophisticated. My users can now see Book covers, Google previews. Also NGL is now Zotero compliant, it means my students preparing project reports can easily create bibliographic references from library catalog 5.NGL reports are much better and very fast now. I could generate my complete accession register in 4 mins. Also Stock verification report was generated in less than 3 mins. 6. Finally the Technical processing module, its so user friendly and at the same time can use the full power of MARC21. A few links that may be helpful for you Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/newgenlib/files/NewGenLib/version3.0.2/Insta... Installation notes: http://www.verussolutions.biz/kb/installationNew Upgradation notes: http://www.verussolutions.biz/kb/node/27 NGL also has started train-yourself Knowledge bank: http://www.verussolutions.biz/kb These videos are really good, I could train my staff especially new recruits easily using the videos in the Knowledge Bank. T A Mohan Librarian Siddaganga Institute of Technology TUMKUR E-mail: mohan@sit.ac.in tamohanta@rediffmail.com Phone: 0816 2214078 Mobile:9343525141 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.