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3 3 Gemma Ros Manager of Operations VTLS Europe Łódź, 15 June 2010 Library Automation

4 4 About VTLS Fully dedicated to Library Automation Same ownership for over 30 years Long term consistency in management Financially sound, privately held, fast growing, really international Here for the long term

5 5 About VTLS More than 900 systems worldwide Serving more than 3000 libraries ISO 9000 Registered Company Committed to standards: active in NISO, ALA and IFLA… Strong R & D program Not as focused on profit Can invest as needed to stimulate growth

6 6 Corporate Offices Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Barcelona, Spain (EMEA) New Delhi, India Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Melbourne, Australia + Distributors around the world

7 7 Prestigious Virtua Customers Many libraries in Poland and Slovakia University of Geneva Polish Union Catalog [NUKat] Library of Alexandria Belgian University Collective Swiss Library Collective [RERO] All Tunisian University Libraries Lund, Göteborg & Uppsala Universities Tamkang University Queens Public Library Princeton University

8 8 National Libraries Swiss National Library National Library of Wales National Library of Pakistan National Library of Slovakia National Library of Azerbaijan National Library of Malaysia National Library of Singapore National Library of India National Library of Ireland National Library of Morocco National Library of Belgium*

9 9 New Customers European Union Publications Office (Luxembourg) PBW- Pedagogiczna Biblioteka Wojewódzka (Poland) Hong Kong Public Library Palau de la Música (Spain) National Centre for Vocational Education Research (Australia) Multimedia University (Malaysia) University of Higher Education, Winneba (Ghana) Gran Canyon University (United States)

10 IVUG Australia Asia N.A. Switzerland Poland USA Canada Malaysia VTLS Users’ Group Organizations EMEA India

11 1.Integrated Library Systems 2.Institutional Digital Repositories 3.RFID for libraries VTLS Has Three Core Businesses

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13 OPAC Web Portal Cataloging Circulation Acquisitions Serials Comprehensive FRBR Archives Management Profiler Reports Language Editor More….

14 User input: permissions, screen layouts, workflow and interface design Simple AND can handle exceptions Z39.50 for everything Unicode compliant Dynamically multilingual Standards based Versatile

15 Parameters GUI – easy profiling Many buttons, pull-down menus, etc. Permissions management for users & groups Create Just For You Software Manages views of data for screen layouts Changes immediately Delivered pre-configured

16 Virtua Profiler - Permissions

17 Virtua Profiler

18 Languages Support of many languages simultaneously including right to left languages Polish, Welsh, CJK, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Urdu…

19 Help System Online Help Context-Sensitive pop-up help via mouse click or function key (F1) Online documentation search engine Printed manuals

20 FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Report published by IFLA study group (1997) VTLS, LC & OCLC are particularly interested in FRBR projects

21 It is the basis for RDA, coming soon! Users of libraries do NOT understand our collections as we do FRBR brings together collections in meaningful displays for them It is up to us to ‘organize chaos’ Why is FRBR an important consideration?

22 Chamo

23 What is Chamo? Social OPAC interface Build from the ground Option to work with Drupal Fast development techniques

24 Main features Facet Refinement

25 Main features Relevancy sorting (Solr)

26 Main features User Reviews & Ratings

27 Main features User Self Registration & Contact Information updates

28 Main features Social Tagging

29 Main features RSS Feed

30 Main features Interface with social networks

31 Archives Management

32 Developed with help of archivists of the NLW Completely integrated in Virtua, can also be isolated ISAD (G) compliant Real links between records, not just display Archives, cannot be described in isolation; require understanding of both its content and its context Archives Management

33 Archives Management

34 Tree display

35 RFID for Libraries

36 RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification)

37 Uses of RFID in Libraries

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39 An OAI data provider tool Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) Allows libraries to "expose" their Virtua DB to OAI harvesters Theses, dissertations, serials, other.. Gives more access to your library’s resources by carving new channels for information to flow

Enter Name and Title, Department or Office Here Enter Date Here (Font: Tahoma Bold) Enter Your Presentation Title (Font: Tahoma Bold) VTLS Information Technology for Advanced Learning

41 What is an Institutional Repository? Stores and maintains digital objects Provides external interface for Digital Objects Creation Modification Access Enforces access policies Facilitates self-submission Offers preservation facilities

42 VITAL - Introduction Institutional Repository (based on Fedora) Software for creating, storing, managing, cataloging, indexing, searching & retrieving your digital collections Backed by VTLS software and service solutions

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44 Discovery tool Offers users a unified interface for searching or discovering content Allows faceted browsing - also traditional keyword search Makes direct links to source content - (iPortal or Chamo for Virtua, any ILS, repositories, etc) Collocate information while providing branding [consortia, university departments, etc.] What is Visualizer?

45 More Powerful Searching Facets dynamically change based on results Breadcrumbs make navigation effortless Sorting is always available Knowledge base is applied to enrich data results

46 Dziękuję bardzo Questions?