NewGenLib (NGL)?

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NewGenLib (NGL)?

• New Generation in Library Automation and
  Networking
• Verus Solutions, Hyderabad

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Corporate Profile

• NGL is supported by a strong team of
• Developers
• Quality Assurance professionals
• Customer support engineers
• Trainers (Masters in Library Science)?
• Channel partner network through out the globe
• Providing IT Services to Food and Agriculture
  Organzation of the United Nations and other
  global corporates

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NGL vision

• Empower the libraries to offer the best services
  to its users
• Enable the librarian to manage the library
  efficiently through
• Best practises
• Following global standards

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Milestones

• 1600 satisfied Libraries across the globe
• 8 Abroad installations
• 14 Universities in India
• 2 International research organizations
• Corporates
• Media and Political parties
• Public libraries and Special libraries
• 20000 downloads within 16 months
• NGL users growing everyday

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Salient features

• Freedom Open source software available under
  GNU General Public License
• Functional modules are completely web based. Uses
  Java Web Start Technology
• Compatibility - Complies with international
  standards
• Affordable - Uses open source components
• Scalable, manageable and efficient

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Salient features

• OS independent - Windows and Linux flavors
  available
• Internationalized application (I18N) Example
• Unicode 3.0 complaint
• Arabic version available
• Easy extensibility to support other languages
• Data entry, storage, retrieval in any (Unicode
  3.0) language

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Salient features

• RFID integration
• Networking Hierarchical and Distributed
  networks
• Automated email/instant messaging integrated into
  different functions of the software
• Customizable OPAC interface
• Form letters are configurable and use XML-based
  OpenOffice templates

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Salient features

• Extensive use of set up parameters enabling easy
  configuration of the software to suit specific
  needs, e.g., in defining patron privileges
• Supports multi-user and multiple security levels
• Allows digital attachments to metadata

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Salient features Support for International
Standards

• MARC21 Bibliographic data
• Bibliographic record data structures designed for
  MARC21 formats
• Import and Export in ISO 2709
• Import and Export in MARCXML
• MARC21 Authority files
• Authority files data structures designed for
  MARC21 formats
• Import available in ISO 2709

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Salient features Support for International
Standards

• MARC21 Holdings
• Holdings data structures designed for MARC21
  Holdings.
• Z39.71 Holdings statement display
• MODS 3.0
• Bibliographic records can be exported in MODS 3.0

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Salient features Support for International
Standards

• ISBD
• Record display and punctuations as per ISBD
• OAI PMH (Digital libraries)?
• Allows harvesting (manual) from external
  repositories
• Create Open archive collections, and items,
  search the repositories and also act as data
  provider
• Metadata formats MARC XML, DUBLIN CORE, MODS 3.0
  and AGRIS AP

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Salient features Support for International
Standards

• SRU/W
• Federated search engines can search bibliographic
  databases using this protocol
• Query language CQL (Common Query Language),
  bench marking Level 1 compliance
• Profiles used BATH, and DUBLIN CORE
• Metadata standards MARC XML and MODS 3.0

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Architecture
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Technologies used

• Open Office
• Jakarta POI
• Jasper Reports
• Hibernate
• Java Mail
• XCQL CQL parser(open source)?
• Postgresql
• XML - JDOM

• J2SE
• Swing
• J2EE
• Servlets
• JSPs
• Struts framework
• EJB
• JBoss Application Server

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Functional modules
Acquisitions
Application Server
Database Server
Technical Processing
Serials Management
Circulation
Administration
NewGenLib Desktop (Reports)?
End Of Day Process (Scheduler)?
OPAC
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Acquisitions

• Support for online requests by users
• Modes of acquisition supported
• Firm orders
• On-approval purchases
• Standing orders
• Solicited gifts
• Unsolicited gifts
• Exchange-triggered acquisitions
• Management information reporting to enable better
  decisions in acquisitions management

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Cataloguing

• Cataloguing data-entry using 3 different
  templates
• Simple
• General
• MARC21
• Import of MARC records from sources such as OCLC
  or from free MARC download sites on the web,
  e.g., LOC
• Access to ten Authority Files during data-entry
  and catalogue database searching

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Cataloguing

• Attachments enable access to internal and
  external digital content, e.g., multimedia,
  web-based resources, scanned images, and full
  text digital documents
• Virtual keyboards for multilingual data entry
• Possibility for entry of data for analytics
  (journal articles, book chapters).
• Option to add an item to the digital
  institutional archive. Such records become
  searchable via the OPAC and also become available
  for harvesting by others.

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Cataloguing

• Automatic validation of entered cataloguing data
  using authority files
• Context-sensitive help using MARC and AACR-II
  standards during cataloguing data-entry
• Cataloguing data-entry possible in Arabic, and
  Indian languages
• Catalogue search by several keys incl. phrase,
  any, or all terms plus the possibility of
  applying search limits
• Catalogue record displays/downloading possible in
  different formats, e.g., MARC records, citations,
  labeled output, MARC-XML

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Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)?

• Patrons have browser-based access to the
  librarys or the Library Systems LAN/Intranet or
  web-based catalogue database
• Extensive search, retrieval, display, print,
  email, download and formatting options for
  patrons
• Citation or tabular display
• Labeled Text format
• MARC Tagged
• ISO 2709
• MARC XML
• Dublin core

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Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)?

• SDI Profiles
• A Google-like search interface in addition to
  basic and advanced search options
• An Expert search interface for defining and
  executing complex searches by information
  specialists
• Users can define their SDI profiles online that
  are executed at user-defined intervals. Output to
  them sent via email

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Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)?

• Library staff interact with patrons via instant
  messages when a user logs-in to the OPAC or via
  email
• OPAC can be configured with an Institutions home
  page
• Librarians/Information Managers access statistics
  of OPAC usage

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Circulation

• Library-configurable parameters to enable the
  setting of a wide range of circulation options,
  fines, user privileges, etc., needed in different
  library environments
• Rapid charging, discharging, renewal via barcode
  readers reservation operations,
• Built-in traps for delinquent users,
  reservations, etc.,
• Inter-library transactions supported
• Binding management inventory management

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Serials Management

• Integrated management of serials subscriptions,
  registration, cataloguing and binding
• Rapid registration of incoming serials using a
  Kardex-like interface
• Batch and on-demand claiming for missing issues
• Management Information reporting for better
  serials management

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Implementation services
Requirement Analysis
Data migration Services
Installation and Commissioning services
Training Services
Advanced training program
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Customer support services
Email based support
Telephone based support
Customer Support
On-line Chat and Voice chat support
Support Engineer in-person Visit
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Contact details

• Verus Solutions Private Limited,
• Hyderabad AP, India
• Email sales_at_verussolutions.biz
• info_at_verussolutions.biz
• Phone [phone],
• 3240 6537

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