European Library Automation Group

Semantic Web and Libraries 26 Library Systems Seminar Rome, 17-19 April 2002

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3M Library Systems-helping librarians improve the efficiency, productivity and service of their libraries through Materials Flow Management and Digital ID Collection Management. www.mmm.com/library

Akros Informatica is a leading solution provider for local and central public administration, small to medium businesses, libraries and cultural institutions. The company has offices in Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence and Naples. The company is part of Akros Group together with Datamanagement S.p.A. and has been certified ISO 9001 since 1995. The company has an annual turnover of 50 milion Euro and over 550 employees. THE ITALIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE. Since the 1980s the company has been closely associated with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and the development of the Italian National Library Service (SBN) from its inception. In early fases of this project AKROS developed, together with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage end the Regional Council for Emilia-Romagna, two mainframe products for SBN. Over the years the collaboration between the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and AKROS has resulted in a number of projects: Development of the SBN/Unix client server software coordinated by ICCU (The Central Institute for the National Libraries Catalogue). Today Akros provides maintenance and software management services for this product. The development of an ISO compliant Inter-Library Loan service which can accessed through the Internet by single users, national and international libraries. AKROS is currently involved in developing the next generation software for the National Library Service. SEBINA – LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. AKROS Informatica produces SEBINA, a Library Management System distributed in over 2.000 libraries and consortia which include universities, public libraries, educational, private and specialist institutions, many of which participate in the National Library Service (SBN). ICS – Internet Communication Services. AKROS Informatica produces ICS Internet Communication Services, an architecture for Library Portals which provides integration between a range of network services and applications and making them accessible to individual users through customizable profiles. ICS is seen as the gateway to the library system giving the user access to: The library search system (OPAC), The library management system (LOANS, Purchase suggestions etc..), Services amanged directly by ICS (Library FAQs, Newsletters, Equipment Bookings etc..) Other library services (On-line documents, fotocopies, specialist services etc..) Other systems which the library makes available (external data base searches, on-line periodical subscriptions etc…) www.sebina.akros.it

Finsiel (Telecom Italia Group) is one of Italy's leading IT consulting and services groups, with an annual turnover in excess of 1,200 million euros. Its principal shareholders are Telecom Italia (77%) and Banca d'Italia (14%). The competencies of the twenty Finsiel subsidiaries cover IT and management consulting, system integration, business intelligence, ERM solutions, online services, e-business, e-procurement, and e-learning. Finsiel is present in all the principal market sectors: government, banking, transportation, manufacturing and services, healthcare, the environment, culture and social insurance. Its clients include major government agencies, Italy's top banking and industrial groups, over 1,000 local authorities, healthcare authorities and transportation companies, small and medium enterprises. Finsiel and the Italian National Library System (SBN) The National Library Service is the Italian library network created by the Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Asset with the cooperation of the Regions and Universities. The co-operation among libraries is the SBN's special feature: the network in fact includes over 1400 Italian libraries (most of the main public libraries and many private and local libraries), that co-operate in real time in cataloguing and lending. This allows for the achievement of a very high level of productivity and a reduction in the time new publications are made available to the public. The Indice system, constituting the operational center of the service and the central catalog of all of the network's libraries, includes about 6 million works, one and a half million authors and over 14 million localization indications, i.e. information on where the books and periodicals are kept and available. The general public can access this veritable mine of information via the Internet through the OPAC service developed for the ICCU by Finsiel. Finsiel has been working with the SBN for over 16 years, ever since it designed and developed the Indice s ervice network and central system using the technologies of the time based on mainframe-class proprietary systems. In its capacity as principal of a business combine that also includes Akros, Finsiel has won the competition for the new National Library System (SBN): a new architectural set-up of the service, based on open operational systems and developed using state-of-the-art object-oriented technologies in order to provide the SBN with new characteristics in terms of flexibility, modularity, management convenience and interoperability with other library management systems. www.finsiel.it

IFNET srl Services for libraries and documentation centers OCLC online reference services and database of the world largest library consortium EOSi TINLIB, Q SERIES integrated software solutions for library automation ALEXANDRIE last generation documental integrated management system Ultra*Net CD/HD open solution for CD-rom networking IFNIAFORMAZIONE professional base and upgrading training for librarians PROJECTS cataloguing, catalogue conversions, documental material scannering scannering THESAURUS workshop www.ifnet.it

Our mission: "... To promote the organizational and technological improvement through I use it of methodologies and avanguard solutions " TEKNESIS is proposed like technical-professional structure, than through the use of new technologies and rigorous methodicals, is in a position to assisting the Enterprise customer with services of advising, formation and development software, finalized to promote the organizational and technological improvement and to manage the change in all its phases. The Technological services are finalized to the search and use of the best methodologies and technologies for the realization of quality software applications, in contained times and costs, on platforms and architectures Client-serveur and Web-based. In a general manner competence deepened on thematic of Engineering of the software and the development for Components (with methodical Object-Oriented) such to guarantee the production on criterias industrial advanced. Thanks to the own competences in this field, TEKNESIS has been selected in the programs of Research and development of the European Community for plans to high technological innovation. www.teknesis.it