Documents search in Kaunas municipal Vincas Kudirka public library online catalogue.

Documents search in The union catalogue of Lithuanian libraries

The Union catalogue ensures  the possibility for internet users to find information about documents stocked in the Lithuanian libraries in one data-bank .

The LIBIS project has been developing since 1997. Project is delivered by the company "Sintagma". To ensure LIBIS' successful implementation and exploitation, the LIBIS center in Lithuanian M. Mažvydas library was established in 1998.

The goal of the project is to achieve standard solutions for main library processes: from acquisition and cataloguing to circulation (library customer services), including internet based services.

LIBIS consists of Local Automated Information systems (LAN) of 50 Lithuanian research and public libraries, and common subsystems. The main common subsystems operating within the LIBIS are:

• Union Catalogue, providing access to holdings information on documents located in the 50 research and public libraries are taking part in shared cataloguing.
• National Bibliographic Data Bank, providing access to bibliographic information of Lithuanian and related to Lithuania documents and data exchange.
• Archive of electronic resources, providing harvesting and archiving, long term preservation and access of ER.

The main automated library system modules  currently developed are: acquisition, cataloguing, serials control, circulation, OPAC, WWW-OPAC, publishing, ILL, statistics, CD ROM from catalogue, authority and UDC databases. LIBIS SW supports multilingual scripts.

• Oracle 8 ir 10g RDBMS server with Oracle Text Option, integration with Saperion.
• PostgreSQL RDBMS for small library software (Open Source platform; no third-party licenced components).
• Z39.50 server for Union Catalog.
• Windows 95 above for client, Apache Web Server.
• Standards: Unimarc/B and Unimarc/A, ISBD, Unicode.

• The document stock of the library is being registered in The union catalogue of Lithuanian libraries since 2001. The ultimate aim is the creation of a computerized catalogue representing the entire library collection. Result of the card catalogue retroconversion:
  - more than 32 440 bibliographic records and more than 203 985 units of the documents are involved during 2001-2005. It makes 50% of all bibliographic records and 31,6% of all documents' stock.
• Service to reader's subsystem is a task in hand, since 2003. Citizenry who want to become a library readers must obtain Reader's card. The same Reader's card can be used to make loans from all the public libraries in Lithuania, which implemented LIBIS Service to reader's subsystem. Presently available 33 libraries. For more information see Reader's card.