PMB

PMB can stand for:

PMB (software)

PMB (formerly PhpMyBibli) is a fully featured open source integrated library system. It is continuously developed & maintained by the french company PMB Services.

Features

PMB follows the rules of the library science. The software provides 4 essential features :

It provides an integrated portal of news and management of Web 2.0 content and is the only ILS that doesn't use a third-party CMS for the management of the portal.

It is multilingual (100% English & French, 80% Spanish and Italian) and even supports Arabic (translation and UTF8 support) since its 3.0.5 version of November 2006. The latest 4.2 version of July 2015 includes a watch unit (Watch&Share) and allows geo-referencing of the collections and several other improvements to the software.

Size

The software is used with collections up to around 500 000 records. Tests are done with 2 million records to show its capacity to manage bigger collections. It is regularly installed in public libraries networks of 10 to 15 sites.