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Open Source for librariesKoha – Bokeh – DrupalCoral – Omeka - Piwik
Paul Poulain, CEO & founder of BibLibre
Open Source for libraries
Open Source :
➔Free to use, modify, distribute
➔Software built by communities of developers & users
Open Source for libraries
Advantages :
➔Depending on your IT skills, do it yourself
➔The software is independent from a vendor strategy
➔Price
➔short term : no licence,
➔long term : new features coming « for free », not tight to the vendor
Open Source for libraries
Service needed
➔The reason BibLibre exists : helping libraries with OpenSource
➔We choose tools that we support & improve
➔We specialise in those tools
➔We contribute to the community, to improve those tools
Open Source for libraries
Some numbers
➔Staff of 18 (4 librarians, 12 IT, 2 sales)
➔1M€ yearly income
➔Supporting 500+ libraries (100+ contracts), including
➔10 universities
➔Customers in France, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands,
Open Source for libraries
Koha
➔ILS used by thousands of libraries.
➔Acquisition, cataloguing, authorities, circulation, patron management, serials, statistics
Open Source for libraries
Koha
➔Web-browser for staff interface as well as OPAC
➔New features published every 6 months, maintenance releases every month
Open Source for libraries
Drupal➔CMS (Content
Management System)
➔Zillions of modules (hard to choose. We made a choice)
➔Integrated with your ILS depending on a connector
Open Source for libraries
Bokeh
➔Library portal
➔CMS features
➔Automatic biblio enhancements (gallica, europeana,
Wikipedia, arte-VOD, …)
➔Connected to ILS
Open Source for libraries
Coral
➔Electronic Resources Management
➔Back-office tool to manage your contracts & subscriptions
➔Usage statistics using SUSHI files
Open Source for libraries
Omeka
➔Web publishing platform
➔For organizing & publishing digital materials
➔Flexible & extensible
Open Source for libraries
Piwik
➔Web analytics
➔Respect users privacy
➔Used by millions of websites
