Libraries

• Nearly 91% of respondents said that they had never experienced any downtime using open source email alternatives.
• More than two thirds of the libraries sampled have ever replaced a commercial software system with an open source alternative.
• Nearly 43% of the academic libraries in the sample use an open source alternative for content management software.

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Public libraries of the French speaking community of Belgium make use of different Integrated Library management Systems (ILS); and until recently, no common portal was available to find a book. This situation recently changed: a portal of pubic libraries has been launched: Samarcande (1).

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"Libraries are essential to the free flow of ideas and to maintaining, increasing and spreading knowledge. As repositories of books and other printed material, they are key to promote reading and writing."
– UNESCO and Libraries portal

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Le marché du SIGB libre se porte décidément bien. En effet, depuis l'état des lieux réalisé en 2006, deux nouveaux logiciels sont apparus: NewGenLib et OpenAmapThèque. C'est ce second qui a été rapidement pris en main afin de le situer vis à vis de notre duo classique: Koha et PMB.

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