NewGenLib

Modules & Functions

NewGenLib has following main modules:

Acquisitions

Technical Processing

Serials management

Circulation

Administration

MIS Reports

Task to do today (daily scheduler)

OPAC

Some advanced functional features:

1. Android mobile and tablet capable
2. Integration with Twitter helping send messages of transactions directly to users’ Twitter accounts.
3. Flexibility of defining own search field in OPAC.
4. Enhanced contents and interactive OPAC like Availability of Book jackets, Google preview, Comments/ Book review, Tagging, Favorite reading list, etc.
5. Zotero compliant OPAC
6. RSS Feeds in OPAC
7. Faceted Browsing (Refining search results)
8. Suggestion for other books in the rack
9. RFID supports
10. Provision for frequently used predefined templates along with freedom of defining own customized data entry template s in Cataloguing
11. Configurable SMS system - a proof of transaction.
12. Integration with Gmail or paid mailbox account. This enables automatic sending of email to patrons during issue /return.
13. Enhanced Report Module for generating in .csv format with a provision for wide customization.
14. Provision for integrating with Vufind SOPAC (Ex: OPAC of the Library of Bangalore University).
15. Catalogue can be harvested through Google site map, and thus the visibility of the library can be further improved.

Technologies Used & Standards Supported

NewGenLib uses a number of well supported and widely used, reliable and well tested open source components like PostgreSQL, Apache Tomcat, and Solr Lucene.,. It is entirely Java-based, platform-neutral, and uses the following major software technologies in its presentation, web server and database layers.

Java SE

Apache Tomcat server

Spring framework

Hibernate framework

Lucene and Solr

JDOM for XML messaging

Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages

Java Mail

OpenOffice.org for form letters

JasperReports

FreeMarker template (from version 3.04 R1)

NewGenLib is platform independent and can be installed on Linux and Windows operating systems.

Standards supported by NewGenLib

MARC21 – For bibliographic data

− Import and Export in ISO 2709, MARC XML

MARC21 – For authority files

− Import available in ISO 2709

MARC21 – Holdings

− Holdings data structures designed for MARC21 Holdings.

Z39.76 – Holdings statement display

MODS 3.0, AGRIS AP

− Bibliographic records can be exported in MODS 3.0 and AGRIS AP

ISBD

− Record display and punctuations as per ISBD rules.

OAI-PMH

− Allows harvesting (manual) from external repositories − Create Open archive collections, and items, search the repositories and also act as data provider − Metadata formats: MARC XML, DUBLIN CORE, MODS 3.0 and AGRIS

SRU/W

− Federated search engines can search bibliographic databases using this protocol − Query language: CQL (Common Query Language), bench marking Level 1 compliance − Profiles used: BATH, and DUBLIN CORE − Metadata standards: MARC XML and MODS 3.0

Unicode 4.0

Z39.50 Client for federated searching

It is also Zotero Compliant.

Community & links

NewGenLib has a growing user community with a good discussion form at http://forums.newgenlib.org/. The details of features and new developments are also available at http://newgenlibofficial.wordpress.com/.

Types of libraries

NewGenLib can be used for any type of library. Presently, it is used by Libraries of following types.

University libraries

College/School libraries

Public libraries

Libraries in Research Institutes

Church libraries

Libraries in Offices/Corporates

Prominent Users

Bangalore University Library

Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan

Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (http://202.159.218.126:8080/newgenlibctxt/)

NISCORT Media Training and Research Institute, New Delhi (Visit and Search Library)

BIMTECH Library (http://210.212.115.113:8080/newgenlibctxt/Opac2_0.jsp)

Vivekananda International Foundation (Research Resource Certre & Library), New Delhi

Lumen Christi International High School, Uromi, Nigeria (Three-time winner of the Best Secondary School in Nigeria Award)