Open Source software and services for libraries
Biblibre's cornerstone is to help any libraries to deploy open source softwares. However it is not enough for a software to be open source for us to offer. We carefully select these softwares and there are two reasons for this. First, we want you to have efficient softwares.
And then Biblibre's members are personally involved in the development and the support of these softwares.
We have found the best softwares for your libraries
Koha everywhere (and further)
At last summer’s Kohacon in Manila, I did a short presentation summing up all the various contexts in which we have implemented Koha (you can watch it here: https://archive.org/details/kohacon2017_15_Boisson). A lot of libraries obivously, but also less common situations, and sometimes utterly unexpected ones. Laboratories, law firms, museums won’t surprise…
Koha and ElasticSearch today
I want to share a work with you. I knew we can now switch SearchEngine syspref to ElasticSearch in Koha community version, but I didn’t know a lot more. I explored with some BibLibre guys what we can really do, if we can propose this feature to our users. It…
October hackfest in Marseille
Summer is coming, and everyone will, soon, have some vacation (at least in the northen hemisphere). It’s also the right time to decide and organise your trip to Marseille, in October. From 10th to 14th, the “hackfest in Europe” will take place, for the 5th year in a row, in…
BibLibre Newsletter of January 2016
Introduction This month edito is the perfect example that Koha is an Open Source ILS made by and for all libraries, even the bigger ones! 900 out of 1126 public libraries use Koha for their ILS. They recently announced the migration from an old Koha 2.x version to the new 3.20 version…