Paul Poulain attented the 2015 EMATCL conference in Trondheim in April 2015. He presented BibLibre, our software and services. Video is available here: https://vimeo.com/126247557

1. EMTACL2015
Open Source for libraries
Koha – Bokeh – Drupal
Coral – Omeka - Piwik
Paul Poulain, CEO & founder of BibLibre

2. Open Source for libraries
Open Source :
➔Free to use, modify, distribute
➔Software built by communities of developers &
users

3. Open Source for libraries
Advantages :
➔Depending on your IT skills, do it yourself
➔The software is independent from a vendor
strategy
➔Price
➔short term : no licence,
➔long term : new features coming « for free »,
not tight to the vendor

4. Open Source for libraries
Service needed
➔The reason BibLibre exists : helping libraries with
OpenSource
➔We choose tools that we support & improve
➔We specialise in those tools
➔We contribute to the community, to improve
those tools

5. Open Source for libraries
Some numbers
➔Staff of 18 (4 librarians, 12 IT, 2 sales)
➔1M€ yearly income
➔Supporting 500+ libraries (100+ contracts),
including
➔10 universities
➔Customers in France, Switzerland, Italy,
Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands,

6. Open Source for libraries
Koha
➔ILS used by thousands of
libraries.
➔Acquisition, cataloguing,
authorities, circulation,
patron management,
serials, statistics

7. Open Source for libraries
Koha
➔Web-browser for
staff interface as well
as OPAC
➔New features
published every 6
months,
maintenance
releases every month

8. Open Source for libraries
Drupal
➔CMS (Content
Management System)
➔Zillions of modules
(hard to choose. We
made a choice)
➔Integrated with your
ILS depending on a
connector

9. Open Source for libraries
Bokeh
➔Library portal
➔CMS features
➔Automatic biblio
enhancements
(gallica, europeana,
Wikipedia, arte-VOD, …)
➔Connected to ILS

10. Open Source for libraries
Coral
➔Electronic Resources
Management
➔Back-office tool to
manage your
contracts &
subscriptions
➔Usage statistics using
SUSHI files

11. Open Source for libraries
Omeka
➔Web publishing
platform
➔For organizing &
publishing digital
materials
➔Flexible & extensible

12. Open Source for libraries
Piwik
➔Web analytics
➔Respect users
privacy
➔Used by millions of
websites

13. Open Source for libraries
Thank you,
For any question :
Booth 4
Paul Poulain (paul.poulain@biblibre.com)