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BibLibre business is still growing, we have to hire some new people. Our offices are too small, so we move !

Pour pouvoir servir la demande croissante de ses clients actuels et nouveaux, BibLibre recrute :

- 1 ou 2 chefs de projets, issu(e)s du métier de la bibliothéconomie, passionné(e)s par l'informatique documentaire, ayant le sens de l'engagement et de la relation clients
- 1 ou 2 informaticien(ne)s, pour du développement, attiré(e)s par le monde du logiciel libre
- un(e) assistant(e) polyvalent(e) administrative et commercial(e).

Les postes sont situés à Marseille.
Ils sont à pourvoir dès maintenant.

Les candidatures sont à envoyer par mail à l'adresse suivante : ca@biblibre.com

BibLibre was founded in Oct. 2007 and, with 3 founders, grew pretty quickly: the company went from 3 to 11 people, had a turnover of a little under 500.000€ in 2009, and we managed to make Koha a reality in French libraries, both in Academic and Public libraries, some of them fairly large, and we also managed to help implement Koha in several other European countries.

I recently acquired an HTC Hero with Android. I installed a nice barcode reader application on it: one can scan the barcode and search web sites, starting with Amazon. But one can also do a custom search: I put the url for my koha opac in there.

So if, say, you're at the local bookshop, or at a friend's looking at her bookshelves, I can scan the barcode with my phone.

The barcode reader does recognize the ISBN of a book.

BibLibre and Libriotech are pleased to announce a partnership to provide support for Koha, Evergreen and other Open Source Software in Norway.
Open Source software, Koha in particular, has an increasingly strong presence in the library market, with many libraries contracting for support and other services through BibLibre. The partnership between BibLibre and Libriotech provides a local company to assist Norwegian libraries with Koha and other OSS implementations as well as technical support.

ByWater Solutions and BibLibre Announce Partnership to Provide Services for Koha Users in the U.S.

ByWater Solutions and BibLibre are pleased to announce a partnership that will help meet the demands of the rapidly-growing Koha community by providing crucial support for development and migration services. ByWater Solutions’ customers will now have access to the development expertise of some of the talented individuals who helped bring us the Koha ILS ten years ago.

I'm at the Frie og Åpne Bibliothek conference in beautiful Bergen, Norway. With, among others, Nicole Engard, which pretty much guaranties you'll have pictures online on Flickr more or less as you speak!

You think this is Koha? No it's not: it's a screenshot of a Drupal web site, with marc records as web pages, and a nice koha-looking stylesheet.

Now that you know what Koha looks like, here's another Koha opac, very un-koha-like this one: another bit of CSS magic.

I alluded to this in an earlier blog post: it's a turbulent time for the Koha community. So far BibLibre has been publicly discreet about this, but we think that it's now time to put our version forward.