Caracas, June 21st2012 Koha Library Software Community Dear Sirs, It is a pleasure for us to announce you that the National Library of Venezuela, an Authonomous Institute of the Ministry of Culture of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has adopted the ILS Koha, as the automated system for the management of our library information. The system is available on the Internet by the link to the Catalogon our website: (http//:www.bnv.gob.ve) with the following URL: http://sisbiv.bnv.gob.ve. The adoption of the ILS Koha is a response to guidelines and presidential decrees, that regarding the use of software, commit us to the implementation of software developed by the free software community and the abandonment of proprietary packages and licenses of both software and hardware. It is important to point out that at present we have available for the library's patrons the OPAC and the cataloging module, and eventually we will incorporate the remaining modules of the system. For two years we have been assessing the functionality of Koha and, simultaneously, we have been doing research to complete the transfer of data from the proprietary system previously in use by our institution (NOTIS) and now we are able to reveal those results to the public. We are very satisfied with Koha, since we consider it a great gift of the world library community. For this reason, we request you to incorporate the National Library of Venezuela as an active member of the community in order to share our experiences and contribute, to the extent of our capabilities, to the development and improvement of such a great system. Thanking you for your attention, we remain, Yours sincerely, Lic. Samyra Handam. Directora de la Oficina de Tecnología de la Información. Samyra.handam@bnv.gob.ve Lic. Engels Arismendi. Lic. Ramón Figueroa. Jefe de División de Sistemas. Especialista en Información Engels.arismendi@bnv.gob.ve ramon.figueroa@bnv.gob.ve