[Koha] Rv: Adoption of the I.L.S. Koha, for the National Library of Venezuela

[Ramon Figueroa]

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 at bnv.gob.ve




Lic.
Engels Arismendi. Lic.                                                            Ramón Figueroa.
Jefe
de División de Sistemas.                                                                                                      Especialista en Información
Engels.arismendi at bnv.gob.ve                                                        ramon.figueroa at bnv.gob.ve