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LIBERO
Knosys
Libero, by Knosys, is your all-in-one library management system for elevating library success and delivering the best experiences for both members and staff. Developed by librarians in collaboration with industry experts, Libero is the secure cloud-based solution enabling accessibility and seamless interaction across all your devices. -
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PC Card Catalog
Library Concepts
Our original system, PC Card Catalog, is known for its intutive operation. The program contains the most-desirable features for a price that meets even the most limited budget. Easy-to-use editing, import MARC, instant ISBN cataloging, print lists, labels, catalog cards, bar codes, and donation plates. Catalog searches find 'best guess,' even with misspellings. Includes the highly regarded One Day Inventory feature. Manage check-in/out, overdue, fines, reserves, and add patrons on one efficient screen. Context-sensitive Help. Much more. Library Concepts (a Diakon Systems company) has been serving library automation needs for over 35 years. From our earliest DOS catalog card printing program to the latest Windows network and Web solutions, we have provided easy-to-use, powerful software with pricing for limited budgets. Whether your library has a few hundred titles or tens of thousands, a single computer or an advanced network, choose the perfect automation solution.Starting Price: $439 one-time payment -
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Soutron
Soutron
We are a cloud-based Library, Archive and Information Management Solutions provider dedicated to Managing Transformation. Soutron partners with special libraries and information centres worldwide to transition them from analog to digital technologies with innovative, fast, flexible, easy-to-use solutions. See our site for details. -
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OPALS
OPALS
OPALS Open-source Automated Library System is a powerful cooperatively developed, Web-based, open source program. This alternative technology provides Internet access to information databases, library collections and digital archives. Many school, college, research, business, religious and library union catalogs (that provide ILL services) use OPALS. There is no need to install software or purchase expensive computer hardware or software licenses to implement this powerful, turnkey Internet accessible system. The “total cost of ownership” of this standards-based, Web-based, feature rich software is demonstrably and undeniably sustainable. We can host and maintain OPALS on our servers or we can work with your IT colleagues to install and support it at your site. Experienced programmers and technical support staff update and maintain the program, giving this open source initiative a responsive, dependable support framework that is essential for institutions that serve the public. -
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LIBRARIAN
CR2 Technologies
LIBRARIAN® is the complete library management Software India and an automation solution that enables information providers, information managers, resources in charge, resource managers & librarians to manage & disseminate information available in various kinds of resources. Cataloging is based on AACR2 standards. Rules are programmed to give consistent and accurate cards. The cards are available in the standard 5" x 3" size. Users can opt to print on cards or A4 Laser Sheets. The GUI is simplified for quick and easy use of the same by all. Cataloging of Books, CDs, Journals, Magazines, Annual Reports, Project Reports, Presentations, PDF files, and many more is possible. Users can easily add up to 20 different fields of different types for entering data of new and upcoming resources. Z39.50 Import enables Libraries to search and Import records from various Z39.50 Libraries across the globe. -
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Koha Library Software
Koha Library Software
The world's first free and open source library system. Koha is a fully featured, scalable library management system. Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies worldwide. Koha is the first free software library automation package. In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of users collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. Full-featured ILS. In use worldwide in libraries of all sizes, Koha is a true enterprise-class ILS with comprehensive functionality including basic and advanced options. Koha includes modules for acquisitions, circulation, cataloging, serials management, authorities, flexible reporting, label printing, multi-format notices, offline circulation for when Internet access is not available, and much more. Koha will work for consortia of all sizes, multi-branch, and single-branch libraries.Starting Price: Free -
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Insignia Library System
Insignia Software
Insignia Library System Enterprise is a high-end scalable system that can be installed for a single site or a consortium of libraries. Insignia is the most comprehensive and fully integrated library automation system on the market. It is powerful and easy to use. Users can access any feature in the system in one mouse click. Our software is currently in use by public, K-12, post-secondary, and corporate institutions. -
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Auto Librarian
MC2 Systems
The Auto Librarian Cloud's new search capabilities enables all categories (Title, Callnumber, Author, and Subject) to be searched simultaneously with lightning speed. Large search results can be instantly paged into manageable sizes from 25 to 50 records at a time and almost instantly further refined with every keystroke. As you type the Results Grid is continuously updating. Actions available: Check out status of the Material and View link which automatically connects to Google Books for a wealth of additional information about the material. The Patron Access is a way to extend your Catalog presence in the library or into classrooms by logging in with any internet connected computer. Borrowers can check their Circulation Summaries: checkouts, fines and checkout history. A pin# is required. Quick link that displays the ten most recent Materials added to the collection giving a User a quick glance to know whats new in library.Starting Price: $420 per year -
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LiBRARYSOFT
New Generation Technologies
Over twenty-nine years the users of our software have ranged from Public Libraries to Church Libraries to School, College, University, Special, Legal and Medical Libraries plus Museums and Galleries. LiBRARYSOFT has been installed on most of the US Naval Fleet, Air force bases, Army bases and International US Military Libraries as well as Canadian Military bases. We have developed specialized Correctional Library solutions including special routines created for San Quentin. Some related unique solutions include the development and maintenance of Submarine parts Inventory and Medical Analysis Programs. The use of RAD (rapid application development) tools allows us to quickly prototype and test new features. Our RAD tools allow us to make rapid changes. Run your library on a single machine, a network or even from across the web.Starting Price: $395 one-time payment -
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Innovative
Innovative Interfaces
For wherever and however patrons connect with your library, Innovative helps you deliver an intuitive and exciting library experience to patrons, staff, and donors, whether in the library or online. We embrace our differences and look for opportunities to develop solutions that increase access, promote equity and support inclusion, putting community first and helping every library reach its greatest potential. Innovative provides solutions that streamline workflows, reduce tedious tasks, and unlock efficiencies so staff can reinvest time in library programs and community engagement. We help libraries meaningfully and consistently connect with patrons to create involved community advocates and build more modern, impactful experiences. Through our collaborative development process, we offer a full ecosystem of smart, scalable, and adaptive library solutions to maximize your operating budget and drive better outcomes. -
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Aleph
Ex Libris
The Aleph® integrated library system provides academic, research, and national libraries with the efficient, user-friendly tools and workflow support they need to meet the increasing requirements of the industry today and in the future. Customizable components are tailored to accommodate the requirements of institutions of all types and sizes, from single-branch libraries to the largest of consortia and national libraries. User-friendly workflows and intuitive graphical interfaces increase staff efficiency and enhance the patron experience. Growth and expansion features enable libraries and consortia to continually re-envision and recreate their unique working environments. The inherent multi-tier client/server structure and conformance with the latest industry standards guarantees that Aleph will meet your needs today and in the future. -
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SirsiDynix Symphony
SirsiDynix
SirsiDynix Symphony® is a proven, robust ILS built for now and the next generation in library technology. Used by the public, academics, K-12, special libraries, and consortia worldwide, Symphony is the most widely installed ILS in history. Symphony gives you options and responds to your unique needs. With hosting options, flexible consortia configuration, and APIs and web services for customization, you can tailor Symphony to all of your organization's needs. Robust functionality allows Symphony to help you accomplish anything your library wants to do. Whether it’s circulation, cataloging, or configuration — Symphony’s well-developed modules offer granular rules to let you shape and administrate your ILS the way you want. -
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VERSO
Auto-Graphics
The VERSO Integrated Library System is designed for library systems of all sizes and configurations, ranging from small, part-time, one-building libraries to multi-branch city or county systems, to multi-library regional and statewide consortia. VERSO is part of Auto-Graphics’ library management platform, an integrated family of products, enabling libraries to manage, search, and share their resources. Serving over 6,000 library customers, the library management platform delivers proven, standards-based library automation solutions. VERSO is built on a modular structure, allowing libraries to pick and pay for only the services they need to manage their libraries best. Rather than forcing libraries to fit into rigid system requirements, VERSO can be configured to meet every library’s unique needs. -
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Library Solution
Sabinet
Sabinet's mission to support libraries' technical processes, promote resource sharing and enable access to information sources is underpinned by its dedication to the values of commitment, partnerships, understanding and support. Sabinet offers cataloging and acquisitions services for libraries, designed to simplify and support your collection development process from acquisitions to cataloging. Sabinet's roots are in library support services, where it is recognized for providing central platforms for collaboration and resource sharing amongst libraries. Sabinet offers a comprehensive range of library management solutions to help you and your library provide an effective service to your users. Store, manage and track your electronic material easily. -
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GeniePlus
Lucidea
GeniePlus is for special librarians who are increasingly asked to deliver more with less. It enables agile libraries to overcome information discovery and delivery challenges. By combining Inmagic Genie’s flexible usability and our powerful LucideaCore KM technology platform, GeniePlus helps you tackle your growing information discovery and delivery challenges with less effort. Optimize your library workflow and services with features that enable staff to be more accurate and effective. Information managers can quickly and easily create new knowledge repositories with custom metadata structures and unique workflows, and publish data via secure, client-configured web portals. This allows you to build, design and launch an OPAC or portal that is a precise fit for your organization’s needs. Capture, organize and share your critical knowledge, no matter what form it takes. GeniePlus offers comprehensive collection management tools that make it easy to manage books, images, videos, etc. -
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Ex Libris Voyager
Ex Libris
Voyager® is the integrated library solution chosen by many of the world’s leading libraries to serve as the backbone of their service systems. Voyager has an intuitive graphical interface, is standards-based, and built on open systems technology. This allows Voyager to interoperate with existing library systems and scale to accommodate future library needs. Voyager integrates and interoperates smoothly with existing library systems as well as with new technologies. Core technologies, standards, and language support have been carefully chosen to ensure that Voyager meets the ever-evolving needs of your library. Voyager client/server software supports the control of Web-based public access cataloging and authority control as well as acquisitions, serials, circulation and course reserves modules. Sophisticated reporting and system administration are all part of the out-of-the-box product offering. -
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Infor Library & Information Solutions provide end-to-end automation for your library. The system helps libraries, archives, and museums market services and engage staff and customers in interactive ways, providing access to both digital and traditional materials. Our format-agnostic solutions support multiple databases, formats, or locations, and provide key performance data and metrics to give decision makers actionable insights. Infor Library & Information Solutions are built to meet the needs of integrated library systems, consortia, individual branches, special libraries, and visually impaired users. Manage operations, including circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, and serials. Unify materials under a single system and manage any metadata format.
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WhoFi
WhoFi
Running a library is a lot of work. WhoFi makes it easier by automating tasks that take your time and attention away from patrons. Libraries and other community hubs are more than just the buildings they occupy. They are centers of learning, professional development, safe spaces, remote working spaces, and protectors of community connections. Keeping the WiFi funded and fast is a top goal of modern community centers. Accurate numbers around WiFi usage are needed for board reporting, grant proposals, improving patron experiences, and more. Quantify and qualify WiFi information to improve your community space. Insights such as patron dwell time, session counts, and new vs. return rates are being used in strategic planning, day-to-day decision-making, advocacy communications, and programming enhancements. All of these insights are provided while still respecting and maintaining patron privacy and adhering to all privacy laws. -
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Librarika
Raynux
Librarika is a SaaS based Integrated Library System (ILS) platform built on the cloud. It is super easy to use, you need no technical skill to manage or use your library in Librarika. -
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Alexandria
COMPanion
Alexandria by COMPanion is a powerful library automation software that empowers patrons and librarians with its customizable interface and robust set of features. Built to meet the unique needs of every library, Alexandria helps seamlessly manage catalogs and gives patrons the ability to quickly search collections, anytime and from anywhere. Alexandria includes catalog management, hosting options, 24/7 customer support, and more. -
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Surpass
Surpass Software
Surpass is an integrated and full-featured suite of applications that seamlessly automates the day-to-day functions of libraries of all types. Ideal for primary and secondary school districts as well as college, public, corporate, and specialty libraries, Surpass is composed of four core applications: Surpass Select, Surpass SL, Centriva, and Surpass CL. Additionally, Surpass provides a special package for church libraries and its hosting service provides libraries the capability to put their whole system online without the help of IT staff and/or in-house servers.Starting Price: $995.00/one-time -
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SydneyEnterprise
Lucidea
Built from the ground up with LucideaCore technology, SydneyEnterprise gives you more, so you can do more. If you’re ready to move your organization’s KM agenda forward (but feel stymied by your ILS) you’ll find that SydneyEnterprise is the answer. You’ll enjoy traditional ILS functions (e.g. cataloging, lending, serials and acquisitions), advanced ILS functions (e.g. electronic resource management, Active Directory and SharePoint integration, and multi-branch work flow) and knowledge management functions, such as the ability to create and publish non-library knowledge repositories, federated search of 3rd party content and many others. Accelerate all aspects of capturing, organizing and sharing knowledge resources; create the single authoritative source for all organizational knowledge resources; play nicely with others, including SharePoint or even Google, and go mobile to support end users, wherever they are, via whatever device they choose. -
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Destiny Library Manager
Follett
Destiny Library Manager is part of Follett's Destiny Resource Management Solution. Destiny's easy-to-use, browser-based technology provides schools and districts better control of their book inventories. Destiny Library Manager lets K-12 districts offer complete library management services to all schools from a single installation via any supported web browser. The Destiny Resource Management Solution also includes Follett's Destiny Textbook Manager, an easy-to-use system that gives districts and schools total control of their textbook inventory. Used separately or as one integrated system, both applications save schools and districts time and money by eliminating redundant site-based installation and maintenance and offer better control of district resources. Destiny Library Manager was recently awarded the 2004 Award of Excellence from Technology & Learning magazine, which called it an "easy, powerful, and meaningful use of technology." -
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Genesis G4
Library Resource Management Systems
Genesis G4 is an “ALL-INCLUSIVE” feature-rich Library Automation system and is considered to be one of the most robust and yet user-friendly tools available for Librarians today. The G4 Library Automation software can handle all aspects of Circulation, Cataloging, Textbook, Inventory, Reporting (simple & customizable), and Borrower Management. In addition, the G4 Library system creates and prints Barcodes for Items, Borrowers and Spine Labels across multiple collections. Because LRMS has always led the way in Library Automation, G4 has many other strong features that are not even offered in similar programs. Designed by Librarians for Librarians, because they know what's needed for their Library. This software is easy to use and navigate. Service is great. Always available for questions. The program does exactly what you need for your library system. -
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MODERNLIB
SAKTHI Technologies
Sakthi Technologies is a leading solution provider for all library related problems. We offer a complete package ranging from supply of the most effective, economical, easy to use Library management software “MODERNLIB” to bar-coding of all resources apart from extraction of all types of reports. Library Management Module (Used by Librarian and Assistance). Library Circulation Module (Used by Librarian and Assistance). Student Search and Inquiry Module (Used by student and staff). -
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M2L
MINISIS
M2L is a completely integrated library system that has captured the attention of specialized, reference, public, and national libraries throughout the world. Officially released in 1998, M2L was originally developed with the participation of experts from the library community to meet the needs of small and medium-sized libraries. Through its easy-to-use graphic interface designed for a Microsoft Windows™ environment, M2L allows users to enter, import/export, and manage bibliographic data in an organized and easy-to-manipulate fashion. M2L also provides the capability to automatically download data from OCLC™, the Library of Congress, and AMICUS™, and can be set up with the added possibility of developing similar download functionality for other national catalogs and international databases. Despite originally being designed for specialized/reference/private libraries, M2L is now garnering great interest in the public and lending libraries around the world. -
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Atriuum
Book Systems
Atriuum provides your library staff and patrons with unlimited access from any computer or workstation, including desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Designed for both librarians and patrons, Librista provides easy and engaging ways to stay connected to your library and manage individual accounts. This free mobile app is compatible with supported iOS® and Android™ devices. Unlike other ILS vendors, Atriuum includes and supports SIP2, NCIP, and Z39.50 protocols and other industry standards at no additional cost. At Book Systems, we use the latest cloud-based technology to reduce your costs and free up resources. When you factor in the price of purchasing a new server, hiring IT personnel, and the work associated with storing and backing up your data, you’ll immediately see the benefits of using our hosting options. As an Application Service Provider (ASP), we deliver powerful and flexible technology that is entirely results oriented. Along with expedited maintenance. -
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OpenText Library Management
OpenText
Corporate libraries require a platform to manage digital content, electronic resources, multimedia, and print materials. OpenText™ Library Management (formerly Livelink for Libraries, or Techlib) is a web-based, integrated library system for managing library resources, including traditional and digital collections, and automating daily library operations. It provides the tools necessary to meet the rapidly changing requirements of the digital library. Library Management streamlines and facilitates the day-to-day operations of a corporate, government, or organizational library. Cataloging and maintenance of library materials. Management of the purchasing process for published materials. Equally suited to organizations with one or with many library locations, system parameters can be defined globally or to accommodate individual library policies. Options include staff privileges, material, collection and patron types, loans policies, classification scheme and reporting options. -
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SignUp
Demco
Promote and manage library programming with SignUp, our easy-to-use event management software. Want to increase attendance at your library’s programs and events? Let everyone in your community know what you have to offer. With SignUp, you can easily promote events for patrons to discover, register for, and attend — without adding to your librarians’ workloads. In addition to seeing information about the events you choose to promote in your physical library or online, people can seek out programs they’re interested in with SignUp’s easy-to-use search and filter functionality.. With convenient online registration, people can quickly and easily sign up and pay for events at any time and from anywhere. It’s especially convenient for registrants using mobile devices. Registrants can quickly add library events to their personal calendars, request reminders, and receive notifications for upcoming events. -
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EPrints
EPrints Services
EPrints has long history in providing institutions with what it needs to publish and promote its research outputs on the Web. Building on the success of the educational content sharing platform EdShare. EPrints can supply a flexible platform to support your staff and students in engaging with open education practices. We have leveraged the EPrints platform to supply a flexible framework to present and preserve the research output from your project. Building on the success of our REF2014 package, EPrints can help institutions meet their REF2020 requirements. The Tweepository package turns EPrints into a powerful social media tool, providing harvesting, archiving and visualisation services for ephemeral social media data. Flexible export formats allow easy integration with network analysis packages such as NodeXL and Gephi. We offer fully managed and supported EPrints based repository services at our commercially run hosting providers.