NewGenLib - an Open Source System for Libraries from India

NewGenLib - OSSNewGenLib is an Integrated Library Management System (ILMS). The genesis of NewGenLib has been to develop an ILMS that addresses all the requirements of a library, complies to international standards and make it affordable for implementation. NewGenLib is an open source software available under most widely used and popular free software license GNU GPL.NewGenLib version 1.0 was released in March' 2005 and later versions 2.0 and 2.1 have come up. It was on 9th January 2008 that NewGenLib was declared Open Source and at the time of declaration the running version was 2.1. Therefore you will find that the versions of NewGenLib start from version 2.1.All the versions of NewGenLib will have the following basic functionalitiesTechnical ProcessingCirculationAcquisitionsSerials ManagementWeb based Online Public Access Catalogue (Web OPAC)MIS ReportsEnd-of-day process (Daily Scheduler)We suggest that you go through each version's documentation in detail for the functionalities and standards supported by each version. NewGenLib is the result of collaboration between domain specialists in library automation and software specialists. Verus Solutions, Hyderabad, India has developed the software in collaboration with a charitable trust called Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management, Hyderabad, India. Domain knowledge has been provided by Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management and software development expertise has come from Verus Solutions.
For windows installation notes visit http://www.newgenlib.com/InstallationNotesWindows.htmVisit http://www.newgenlib.com/NewGenLibDesktopInstallationNotes.htmlfor installation of NewGenLib Desktop. Which includes a number of Reports and other utilitiesTo download for Windows, visit http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=210780