Open Text Library Management

Automate library cataloging, searching, circulation, serials control and acquisitions functions for books and other library materials

 

Benefits

  • Make better business decisions

  • Save money by centralizing knowledge assets

  • Protect knowledge assets

  • Improve productivity

  • Simplify system administration

  • Maximize return on investment

 

Today's corporate library requires an infrastructure to manage digital documents, Internet resources, multimedia and print materials. Open Text Library Management (formerly Livelink ECM - Library Managment, or Techlib) is a fully Web-based, integrated application for managing library resources-including traditional and digital collections-and automating daily library operations. It provides the tools necessary to meet the rapidly changing requirements of the digital library.

Library Management streamlines and facilitates the day-to-day operations of a corporate, government, or organizational library. Comprised of a sophisticated set of modules, it provides:

  • Patron access

  • Cataloging and maintenance of library materials

  • Circulation processing

  • Management of serial publications

  • Administration of the purchasing process for published materials

Features

Click each of the following features to learn more about the key capabilities of Open Text Library Management:

  • Fully integrated modular design of three core components

    Library Management offers complete integrated library system functionality with three core components:
    • The Online Patron Access Catalog (OPAC) provides an easy-to-use, Web browser interface with powerful bibliographic records and digital collections searching capabilities.
    • The Cataloging component provides complete data entry facilities for maintaining catalog, authority and digital content.
    • The Administration component is a convenient Web browser interface for managing system parameters.

  • Highly configurable library-specific parameters

    Equally suited to organizations with one or with many library locations, system parameters can be defined globally or to accommodate individual library policies. Available options include staff privileges, material types, collection types, patron types, loans policies, classification scheme and reporting options.

  • Support for digital collection management

    Digital collections capabilities enable you to effectively integrate knowledge assets in physical and electronic forms. Digital content in many formats can be attached to catalog records to add value to the collection with document full text, reviews, cover art, tables of contents and more.

  • Dynamic authority control

    Authority control is provided by an ANSI standard thesaurus that is automatically active during both retrieval and data entry. During cataloging, interactive validation alerts you to improper entries, with override. Term switching capabilities automatically change a non-preferred to preferred form. During searching, you can browse and select terms from the authority file as well as experience search redirection to the preferred form.

  • Additional functionality with optional modules

    Optional modules provide circulation, serials, and acquisitions management functions all fully integrated around a single bibliographic database.

  • Standards-based open architecture for extensive customization

    Library Management uses a standard open architecture running on an application server rather than a desktop client, thereby centralizing all customization activities. In addition, the database schema is fully exposed and may be modified to meet local data requirements. Library Management is designed to be customizable, yet it is still supported by Open Text and will be upgraded with each new release.

  • Flexible report generation

    Report templates provide maximum flexibility to meet local reporting needs; the standard report toolkit uses Jasper Reports.

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