စာၾကည္႔တိုက္သံုး ေဆာ႔ဖ္ဝဲလ္ စနစ္မ်ား အေၾကာင္း (Library Management Systems)
ဒီတစ္ခါေတာ့ Integrated Library System (ILS)၊ သို႔မဟုတ္ Library Management System (LMS) လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ စာၾကည့္တိုက္သုံး အဓိက ေဆာ့ဖ္၀ဲလ္စနစ္ တစ္ခု အေၾကာင္းကို ေရးသားဖို႔ စိတ္ကူး မိပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္မ၏ ေဆာင္းပါးတြင္ နည္းပညာဆို္င္ရာ ေ၀ါဟာရ အခ်ိဳ႕ကို ဘာသာ ျပန္ဆိုရန္ ခက္ခဲသည္က တစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ မူရင္း ေ၀ါဟာရကို စာဖတ္သူမ်ား သိရွိေစလို သည္ကတစ္ေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္၊ ဘာသာ မျပန္ဘဲ တိုက္ရိုက္ ထည့္သြင္း ေရးသား ထားပါတယ္။ စာဖတ္သူမ်ား အေနျဖင့္လည္း နားလည္ ႏိုင္လိမ့္မည္ဟု ယံုၾကည္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ မိပါတယ္။
ဒီကေန႔ေတာ႔ ကၽြန္မႏွင္႔ စိတ္ကူး တူသူ၊ အၾကံတူသူ၊ ညီအစ္ကို ေမာင္ႏွမမ်ား အတြက္ ႐ည္႐ြယ္၍ စာၾကည္႔တိုက္ တစ္ခု၏ ပင္မ ေဆာ႔ဖ္ဝဲလ္ စနစ္တစ္ခုတြင္ ပါဝင္ေသာ module အသီးသီးကို လည္းေကာင္း၊ module တစ္ခုစီ၏ ႐ည္႐ြယ္ခ်က္ႏွင္႔ လုပ္ငန္း ေဆာင္တာ မ်ားကို လည္းေကာင္း၊ ႐ွင္းလင္း ေ႐းသား သြားမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ထိုမွ တစ္ဆင့္ တက္၍ ေကာင္းမြန္ေသာ စာၾကည့္တိုက္ စနစ္ တစ္ခုကို မည္သို႔ေသာ စံခ်ိန္ စံၫႊန္း မ်ားျဖင့္ ေရြးခ်ယ္သင့္ ေၾကာင္း မ်ားကို ကၽြမ္းက်င္ သူတို႔႔ ယူဆခ်က္ မ်ားကို ကိုးကား၍ ေဖာ္ျပေပး သြားမွာပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စာၾကည္႔တိုက္ တစ္ခု၏ ပင္မ ေဆာ႔ဖ္ဝဲလ္ စနစ္ တစ္ခုတြင္ အေျခခံ အားျဖင္႔ ေအာက္ပါ module (၆) ခုပါဝင္ပါတယ္။
၁။ Cataloguing module
၂။ Circulation module
၃။ OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
၄။ Serials module
၅။ Acquisitions module ႏွင့္
၆။ Reporting module တို႔ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စာၾကည့္တိုက္ တစ္ခု၏ လုပ္ငန္း ေဆာင္တာမ်ားကို အေျခခံ၍ module (၆) ခု ခြဲထားေသာ္လည္း၊ ဤ စနစ္ၾကီး တစ္ခုလံုးကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ႏိုင္သည့္ Administration module ကိုလည္း ထည့္သြင္းထား ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ Administration module တြင္ user access controls ႏွင့္ dynamic parameter maintenance module မ်ား ထပ္မံ ပါ၀င္ျပန္ပါတယ္။ module တစ္ခုစီ၏ အေၾကာင္းကိုလည္း ေနာက္ရက္မ်ားတြင္ သီးျခား အခန္း တစ္ခုစီခြဲ၍ ေရးသား သြားဖို႔ စိတ္ကူး ထားပါတယ္။
စာၾကည့္တိုက္ ေဆာဖ့္၀ဲလ္ အားလံုးတို႔တြင္ အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ module (၆) ခု ႏွင့္ Administration module တို႔ကို အဓိက အေနျဖင့္ ထည့္သြင္း တည္ေဆာက္ ထားေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ေဆာဖ့္၀ဲလ္ ထုတ္လုပ္သူ အသီးသီးက သူတို႔၏ ထုတ္ကုန္ ေဆာ႔ဖ္၀ဲလ္မ်ားကို ေခတ္စနစ္ႏွင့္ ေလွ်ာ္ညီေအာင္ အေကာင္းဆံုး ထုတ္လုပ္ ထားပါေသာ္လည္း၊ ထုတ္လုပ္မႈ တိုင္းမွာေတာ႔ သူ႔ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ အားသာခ်က္၊ ႏွင့္ အားနည္းခ်က္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးက ရွိေနမွာဘဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ALA မဂၢဇင္း၏ ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ Marshall Breeding ေရးသား ျပဳစုခဲ့ေသာ “၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္ ၏ စာၾကည့္တိုက္ စနစ္မ်ား ရီပို႔” (Library Systems Report 2014)တြင္ ကမၻာ့ ထိပ္တန္း စာၾကည့္တိုက္ ေဆာ့ဖ္၀ဲလ္ စနစ္မ်ားကို ႏႈိင္းယွဥ္ထားျပီး ၊ ထုတ္လုပ္ ျဖန္႔ခ်ီသူ (LMS Software Vendors) မ်ား၏ အမည္ စာရင္းကို ေအာက္ပါ အတိုင္း ေဖာ္ျပ ေပးထား ပါတယ္။
အခန္း (၂) ကို ဆက္လက္ ဖတ္ရႈပါ။
References:
- Library Systems Report 2014: http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_computer_system
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_library_system
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LMS Vendor Profiles
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430 Vineyard Ave., Suite 100
Ontario, CA 91764
800-776-6939
Types of Libraries Served: small to mid-sized public, consortia comprising primarily public libraries
Geographic Area: United States, Canada
Ownership: Publicly traded
Products: VERSO ILS, SHAREit interlibrary loan system
Axiell Group
Box 24014
224 21 Lund, Sweden
+46-46-270-04-00
Types of Libraries Served: Public,
museums, archivesDenmark, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom; diverse geographic presence for archives and museums
(discovery/portal), Calm (archive or
museum management), Adlib (archive or museum management)
academic, school, special
Birmingham Business Park
United Kingdom B37 7YB
(especially those serving persons with visual disabilities)
academic, school, special
academic, special
Geographic Area: ILS products:
Ownership: Privately owned
Products: ILS: Aurora, BOOK-IT, DDElibra, OpenGalaxy; Arena
Baratz
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, 28
28003 Madrid, Spain
+34-91-456-0360
Types of Libraries Served: Public libraries, special, government
Geographic Area: France, Latin America, Portugal, Spain,
Ownership: Privately owned
Products: ILS: Absys, Absys.NET, AbsysNOVA (in development); Media Search discovery for digital collections; BKM (Baratz Knowledge Management)
BiblioCommons
119 Spadina Ave., Suite 1000
Toronto, ON MSV2L1 Canada
647-436-6381
Types of Libraries Served: Public libraries, consortia
Geographic Area: United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
Ownership: Privately owned
Products: BiblioCore, BiblioCMS, BiblioDigital
Biblionix
401 Congress Ave., Suite 1540
Austin, TX 78701
877-800-5625
Types of Libraries Served: Public libraries (small to medium)
Geographic Area: United States
Ownership: Privately owned
Products: Apollo
Book Systems, Inc.
4901 University Square, Suite 3
Huntsville, AL 35816
800-219-6571
Types of Libraries Served: Schools, public (typically small), special
Geographic Area: United States
Ownership: Privately owned
Products: Atriuum, Concourse
ByWater Solutions
106 Topstone Rd.
Redding, CT 06896
888-900-8944
Types of Libraries Served: Public,
Geographic Area: United States (some recent international clients)
Ownership: Privately owned
Products: Support services for Koha and related open source software
Capita
Knights Court, Solihull Parkway
Birmingham, West Midlands
+44-121-870-400-5000
Types of Libraries Served: Public
Geographic Area: United Kingdom
Ownership: Privately owned
Products: Alto ILS; web-based Soprano ILS, Strato ILS for further-education colleges
Civica Pte Limited
Level 5, 565 Bourke St.
Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
+61-3-8676-4400
Types of Libraries Served: Public, school
Geographic Area: Asia (especially Singapore and Taiwan), Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Ownership: OMERS Private Equity
Products: Spydus 8, Spydus 9.
COMPanion Corp. / Alexandria
1831 Fort Union Blvd.
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
801-943-7277
Types of Libraries Served: School, public (small), academic
Geographic Area: United States
Ownership: Private
Products: Alexandria
EBSCO Information Services
10 Estes St.
Ipswich, MA 01938
800-653-2726
Types of Libraries Served: Academic, public, school, special
Geographic Area: Global
Ownership: Private
Products: EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCONET, LinkSource (e-resource knowledge base), EBSCONET Analytics. Also a major provider of subscription services, subject indexing services, and aggregated content products
Equinox Software, Inc.
3850 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
Duluth, GA 30096
877-673-6457
Types of Libraries Served: Public
Geographic Area: United States, Canada
Ownership: Private
Products: Support services for Evergreen, Koha, FulfILLment, and related open source software
Ex Libris Group
Bldg. 8-9 Malcha Technological Park
Jerusalem, Israel 91481
+972-2-649-9100
Types of Libraries Served: Academic, national, consortia
Geographic Area: Global
Ownership: Golden Gate Capital
Products: Alma (library services platform), Primo/Primo Central (discovery), Rosetta (digital preservation), Aleph (ILS), Voyager (ILS), SFX (OpenURL link resolver), bX (recommendation service), Verde (electronic resource management), MetaLib (federated search)
Follett School Solutions
1391 Corporate Drive
McHenry, IL 60050
815-344-8700
Types of Libraries Served: School
Geographic Area: United States, global (such as international schools)
Ownership: Private
Products: Destiny Library Manager (ILS), Destiny Textbook Manager, Destiny Asset Manager, Follett Shelf (ebook digital platform), Aspen (student management system), Titlewave (e-commerce for library materials), Follett Enlight (reading and studying environment)
Infor Library and Information Solutions
492 Old Connecticut Path, Suite 600
Framingham, MA 01701
800-825-2574
Types of Libraries Served: Public
Geographic Area: United States, Benelux, Canada, France, United Kingdom
Ownership: Golden Gate Capital
Products: V-smart (ILS), Iguana (discovery / library portal), V-eyeQ (collection analysis tool), V-link (OpenURL link resolver), V-sources (electronic resource management)
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
5850 Shellmound Way
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-655-6200
Types of Libraries Served: Academic, public, special, school
Geographic Area: Global
Ownership: HGGC, JMI Equity
Products: Sierra (library services platform), Millennium (ILS), Encore (discovery interface), Content PRO (digital collections management)
InfoVision
945 Fourth Ave., Suite 409
San Diego, CA 92101
800-849-1655
Types of Libraries Served: Public
Geographic Area: United States
Ownership: Private
Products: Evolve
Keystone Systems
8016 Glenwood Ave., Suite 200
Raleigh, NC 27612
919-782-1143
Types of Libraries Served: Special
Geographic Area: United States
Ownership: Private
Products: KLAS
LibLime, a division of PTFS
11501 Huff Ct.
North Bethesda, MD 20895
301-654-8088
Types of Libraries Served: Public, academic, school, special (especially government agencies)
Geographic Area: United States
Ownership: Private
Products: LibLime Koha, LibLime Academic Koha, ArchivalWare (archive management system), Digital Library System (ArchivalWare + LibLime Koha).
The Library Corporation
1 Research Park
Inwood, WV 25428
304-229-0100
Types of Libraries Served: Public, school
Geographic Area: United States, Canada, Singapore
Ownership: Private
Products: Library.Solution (ILS), Carl.X (ILS), LS2 PAC (enhanced online catalog), LS2 Staff (web-based staff clients), eBiblioFile (MARC records for ebook collections), RDAExpress (bibliographic conversion service)
LibraryWorld, Inc.
560 S. Winchester Blvd., Suite 500
San José, CA 95128
800-852-2777
Types of Libraries Served: School, public (small), special
Geographic Area: United States
Ownership: Private
Products: LibraryWorld (ad-based free, premium)
Lucidea
13562 Maycrest Way, Suite 5138
Richmond, BC V6V 2J7, Canada
604-278-6717
Types of Libraries Served: Special
Geographic Area: United States, Canada
Ownership: Private
Products: SydneyPLUS, Inmagic, CuadraSTAR, LookUp Precision, LawPort, Argus.net, and Incite Software Solutions
Mandarin Library Automation, Inc.
P.O. Box 272308
Boca Raton, FL 33427
800-426-7477, ext. 751
Types of Libraries Served: School, academic (small), public, special
Geographic Area: United States, Canada
Ownership: Private
Products: Oasis/CMS, Mandarin M3
Media Flex Inc.
P.O. Box 1107
Champlain, NY 12919
877-331-1022
Types of Libraries Served: School, academic (small), public, special
Geographic Area: United States, Canada
Ownership: Private
Products: OPALS
OCLC
6565 Kilgour Pl.
Dublin, OH 43017
614-764-6000
Types of Libraries Served: Academic, public, special, school
Geographic Area: Global
Ownership: Membership owned and governed
Products: WorldShare Management Services, WorldShare License Manager, WorldCat Local, WorldCat Discovery Services, EZproxy (proxy and authentication service), CONTENTdm (digital asset management), WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
Polaris
103 Commerce Blvd., Suite A
Liverpool, NY 13088
800-272-3414
Types of Libraries Served: Public
Geographic Area: United States, Canada
Ownership: HGGC, JMI Equity
Products: Polaris (ILS), LEAP (in development)
ProQuest
789 E. Eisenhower Pkwy.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
206-545-9056
Types of Libraries Served: Academic, public, school, special
Geographic Area: Global
Ownership: Cambridge Information Group, Goldman Sachs
Products: Summon (discovery), Intota (library services platform, in development), 360 Resource Manager (electronic resource management), 360 Link (OpenURL link resolver), Flow (citation management)
SirsiDynix
3300 N. Ashton Blvd., Suite 500
Lehi, UT 84043
800-288-8020
Types of Libraries Served: Public,
Geographic Area: Global
Ownership: Vista Equity Partners
Products: Symphony (ILS), Horizon (ILS), EOS.Web (ILS), Enterprise (discovery interface), Portfolio (integrated digital asset management), BLUEcloud Suite (cloud-based ILS access and management tools), eResource Central (management and access of ebooks and other electronic resources)
Soutron Global
1042 N. El Camino Real,
Suite B-215
Encinitas, CA 94024
760-870-4243
Types of Libraries Served: Special
Geographic Area: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Ownership: Private
Products: Soutron (ILS/knowledge management)
VTLS
1701 Kraft Dr.
Blacksburg, VA 24060
540-557-1200
Types of Libraries Served: Public,
Geographic Area: Global
Ownership: Private
Products: Virtua (ILS), Open Skies (library services platform), Chamo Discovery (discovery), VITAL (digital asset management / repository), MozGo (mobile interface)
