Communications. Afghanistan digital library initiative: revitalizing an integrated library system.
This paper describes an Afghanistan digital library initiative of building an integrated library system (ILS) for Afghanistan universities and colleges based on open-source software. As one of the goals of the Afghan eQuality Digital Libraries Alliance, the authors applied systems analysis approach,...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 44 - 47 |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | pictorial Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Dec2007
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| Sumario: | This paper describes an Afghanistan digital library initiative of building an integrated library system (ILS) for Afghanistan universities and colleges based on open-source software. As one of the goals of the Afghan eQuality Digital Libraries Alliance, the authors applied systems analysis approach, evaluated different open-source ILSs, and customized the selected software to accommodate users' needs. Improvements include Arabic and Persian language support, user interface changes, call number label printing, and ISBN-13 support. To our knowledge, this ILS is the first at a large academic library running on open-source software. |
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