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Open your mind! Selecting and implementing an integrated library system: the open-source opportunity

Chalon, Patrice X. and Alexandre-Joaquim, Laurent and Naget, Caroline and Becquart, Catherine (2006) Open your mind! Selecting and implementing an integrated library system: the open-source opportunity. In Proceedings 10th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Cluj (Romania).

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AIM: The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE – Kenniscentrum / Centre d’Expertise) is a recently established government agency that conducts studies in the field of Good Clinical Practice, Health Technology Assessment, Health Care Services Research and Equity and Patient Behaviour, and includes a small specialized library. During its first year of existence, the catalogue of the library was held in EndNote: the need for an Integrated Library System (ILS) was urgent, but no specific budget was dedicated for buying such a system.
METHODS: We elaborated a wish-list and a selection procedure to guide ourselves in the following steps. We then searched for Open-source opportunities through various sources (journals, Web…).
RESULTS: From the wish-list, 2 serious candidates were pre-selected: Koha and PMB. After installation tests, PMB was chosen to be the KCE ILS. PMB was installed on a production server, fully parameterized (classification, authorities, users…) and officially launched in March 2006. The users enjoy the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), reserving and borrowing a book is easier; an alerting tool may also warn them about new books or journal issues; in a few clicks, records are exported to EndNote. The job of the librarian is simplified too: user management, downloading entries from other library catalogues through Z39.50, presenting recent acquisitions or specialized collections directly through the OPAC…becomes easier.
CONCLUSION: Thanks to the efforts of the open-source community, any library can now enjoy a serious ILS at no licence cost: the saved money can hence be allocated to the extension of the collection.

Keywords:Catalogs, Library ; Software ; Libraries, Medical ; Open-source
Subjects:L. Information technology and library technology. > LQ. Library automation systems.
L. Information technology and library technology. > LR. OPAC systems.
L. Information technology and library technology. > LJ. Software.
ID Code:14370
Deposited By:Chalon, Patrice X.
Deposited On:23 July 2008
Alternative Locations:http://www.eahilconfcluj.ro/docs/1b/chalon&al2006_text.pdf
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