Lightning talk presentation presented on Gnome Asia Summit 2015, University of Indonesia.

1. SLiMS : Improving the
Librarian Competences
Through Open Source
Software
SLiMS Developer Community
Prepared for Lightning Talks @ Gnome.asia 2015
by Arie Nugraha, Wardiyono
slims.web.id – github.com/slims

2. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
About SLiMS
 Free Open Source, web-based software for Library
Automation
 Developed since 2007
 Licensed under GPL v3
 Active development with more than 17 releases since
2007, next release will be: AKASIA
 Users and communities span across Indonesia, South
East Asia, West Asia, Russia, Germany, South
America, Africa, and others.

3. Embrace Open Standards and Open
Source
 Metadata Interchange
Format with
 MODS XML
 OAI-PMH (data provider)
 Schema.org with Microformat
and JSON-LD
 RSS
 MARC format compatible
 PHP > 5.3
 MySQL/MariaDB databases
 PHP enabled Web Server
 HTML 5
 CSS 3
 Javascript and jQuery
 3rd party indexing with
Sphinx search engine

4. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
SLiMS proves open source is the right
choice
 SLiMS enables library in all size to adopt library
automation easily
 SLiMS also enables them to:
 Modify SLiMS to suit their own need in an instant
 Using SLiMS on library branches WITHOUT paying any
licenses
 Create a network of libraries
 Learn web programming

5. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
Librarian Competences
Basic competences for Librarian to use SLiMS:
 Descriptive Cataloguing
 Subject Indexing
 Classification
 Vocabulary Control/Thesaurus
 Library Automation
 Digital libraries

6. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
Librarian Competences
in Web 2.0 era
Concepts that Librarian need to master in maximizing
SLiMS usage:
 Database Management System
 Interoperability
 Open Access
 Metadata Encoding and Interchange Standards
 Web Authoring and Programming
 Open Source

7. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
Prelimanary Survey result on
competences
 Responden (Indonesia):
 Librarian (54%)
 IT people (19%)
 Teacher/Lecturer (7%)
 Others (19%)
 Using SLiMS and/or join the Community improved IT
and librarianship comptences (92%)
 Field of improvement are: Web application (64%), PHP
(56%), Web design (47%), Database (54%)

8. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
Other Result and Suggestions
 Responden education:
 High school (16%), Diploma (23%), Graduate (60%), Post
Graduate (6%), Others (21%)
 Type of community joined:
 Local community (38%), Milist discussion (48%), Social
media (75%), Others (47%)
 Contributions to community
 Sharing experience/teaching (89%)
 Need to legitimate their new/improved competences

9. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
How SLiMS enable community
innovation
 Create easily deployable library automation software
on all platform
 Writing understandable codes that enable everyone
can play with it
 Facilitate community to write their own creation on
SLiMS with goslims.net
 Kept up with current trend in library technology such as
RFID

10. SLiMS Developer Community – Gnome.asia 2015
TERIMA KASIH
THANK YOU
 Download SLiMS at:
 http://slims.web.id
 Fork and contribute to SLiMS source code at:
 https://github.com/slims
 SLiMS Developers are:
 Hendro Wicaksono, Wardiyono, Arie Nugraha, Purwoko,
Arif Syamsudin, Eddy Subratha, Rasyid Ridho, Indra
Sutriadi