Dataly (Greece) and BibLibre (France) are very proud to announce that the ILSAS network has chosen Koha and Vufind as their new ILS and discovery software.
In the next 18 months, 20 universities will migrate to Koha, using it both as a union catalog and local ILS.
Each university will also propose a public interface using vufind, and the ILSAS network will also provide a global public interface with the union catalog.
“This project is a great boost for the adoption of open source software in Greek libraries. We are very happy to have been selected by the ilsas consortium, proving that Dataly is a major local player. Being Open Source, we can develop feature needed to be sure that local requirement will be fulfilled, including Greek language support. Cooperating with BibLibre is a great opportunity for us to be successful on a large project like this one” said George Veranis, Dataly CEO.
“BibLibre has managed many projects in the previous 17 years, including consortium ones. But this one is, by far, the largest, it is a very exciting challenge for our technical team: we will deploy a complete infrastructure, and develop many tools in order to manage the union catalog: each library will be able to catalog local documents as well as ‘union’ documents in a fluent and easy process. We are thrilled to cooperate with Dataly, a company perfectly knowing local needs” said Paul Poulain, BibLibre CEO.
About Dataly
Dataly Tech has successful partnerships in Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Belgium and the UK developing and support Koha for more than 100 libraries. The company provides services across a wide range of services including library systems, digital libraries, indexing systems, repositories , websites, special customized systems, training and consulting services. It is the only greek company involved in Koha in its official repository. Also from 2023 is ISO 27001:2013 certified for the security of the information systems it develops for libraries and ISO 9001:2015 for the quality of its services.
About BibLibre
BibLibre was founded in 2007 on an idea: to help libraries of all types and sizes deploy open source software.
BibLibre provide a complete range of service: from installing to migrating data, from training to interfacing with third party products (software and hardware), from hosting to developing new features (that are included in the software for everyone every time it’s relevant)
BibLibre has managed more than 250 Koha project in France and Europe, of all size and kind.
The quality of our project management has been recognized many times and our involvement in the open source ecosystem was recognized and rewarded in 2023 with the “prize for open and ethical digital” by the CNLL (French union of Open Source companies)
About Koha
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.
Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org.
About VuFind
VuFind is a discovery system designed and developed for libraries by libraries. It is also flexible enough to build search interfaces for all kinds of content beyond the library environment. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your resources in a single consistent and user-friendly interface. Content could include:
Catalog records, Institutional repository content, Open access journal articles, Digitized library materials, Websites, Items available for interlibrary loan, Licensed content (where supported by providers), Other collections and resources, just add metadata!
VuFind is completely modular and includes tools to support a wide range of use cases, from a basic Library catalog search to a sophisticated dashboard of data from many sources.
