Elidune, the online library

Elidune is a complete library management system.
The goal of this software is to provide as much freedom as possible to the user and be easily adapted to fullfill his needs.

Elidune is a libre software distributed under the GPL license.

Concept

The idea behind Elidune is to offer the most modular solution possible.
The system is based on a client/server [1] architecture using a standardized and documented protocol (soap).
The server respects the librarian standards and the client is offering a pleasant working space to the user.

Functions

  cataloguing for every sorts of documents, managing specimens and archives
  readers and librarians management
  documents circulation (loans, returns)
  import every sort of M MARC [2]. An XML file describes the fields to import.
  querying other online libraries (z39.50 client). This function can be used for helping the cataloguing work...
  statistics modules easy to personalize through an XML file.

Demo

Peoples who are running GNU/Linux system can download an Elidune client and test the software with the demonstration server running at demo.elidune.org. See the instructions here.