Country: / Netherlands
Name: / Van Halm, Johan
Email: /
News from library automation vendors active in the Netherlands
1.1 Introduction
The Netherlands has – after Germany, the UK and the USA – the largest spectrum of library IT suppliers.
The variety in library systems used is more evident in the special and public libraries than in the academic libraries
and an open library network has emerged, which links the local library systems transparently to the central facilities.
In the special library category there is the largest variety of systems and many libraries were automated and more
functions have been implemented in the last years.
For the public library category we have seen mostly orders for upgrading or replacement and the battle for
market share goes between INFOR (Geac) and HKA, with IsacSoft BIBLIOMONDO is further loosing
its – before so strong – position.
New market entrants cannot easily get certification, as no transparent ongoing ad-hoc procedure exists,
leaving potentially successful companies out of the Dutch market for a minimum of one year after a new round
of certification.
1.2 Active vendors
AAC Cosmos ICT Solutions Biblio Network Assistant(BNA)
ADLIB Information Systems ADLIB
AppSoftware AppGuard
App-A-raat
Cybrarian
G!DS
Autocheck Systems security, self-service
BIBLIOMONDO CONCERTO
Zone1/ZonePro (portal)
DIALOC ID (ID Systems) security
Ex Libris Aleph500
DigiTool (digital management)
MetaLib (portal)
SFX (link resolver)
FDI OLIB7
VDX (resource sharing)
FKI Logistics self-service systems
HKA BICAT
Educat
i-tr@ck B.V.Library Mate
MiniSorter
INFOR Library SolutionsVubisSmart
Vlink (OpenURL resolver)
Vspace (federated searching/portal)
Vsources (ERM)
IT-Accent CuadraStar CuadraSTAR
Itsec Nederland bv EasyPay
Kno-Tech productbeveiliging Kno-Tech
Lorensbergs netloan public
Kiosk+
Resource management
Medialab Solutions bv Aquabrowser (associate search)
NBD/Biblion RFID
Cor-Lector (sorting robots)
Nedap N.V.Bibliochecker (RFID)
Netcreators TYPO3 (cms)
Notra BV Security and control
OCLC PICA LBS4
CBS
Picarta
Olib
VDX
Cportal
Zportal
SISIS Sunrise
ELEKTRA
OVID TechnologiesLinkSolver
SearchSolver
Q-be Library Systems Q-be
SirsiDynix ROME
SQUARE IS bv BIBIS
BIBIS Library Portal
Truston Solutions BV Biblio-byte
Xafax Nederland BV PayStation (of Itsec)
X-ref Nederland
3M security (RFID, barcode)
2 Activities of Johan van Halm
2006 has seen again an array of challenging activities, such as brainstorming projects with many European
and international vendors, as well as major international library suppliers. Other activities
ongoing teaching activities at the Fachhochschule Cologne(D) for marketing, library
and information consultancy and information brokerage, increasingly with coverage
of e-commerce and e-content
joint ventures and take-over preparations for a variety of information industry
companies at both sides of the Atlantic ocean
recruitment projects for ‘top-dog’ positions in the library services industry
ongoing assistance with the launch of sophisticated new library automation systems
world-wide, incl. explorations for the use of WEB2.0 library applications
the editor-in-chief of the well-known information industry journal Information
Service and Use(ISU)
monitoring the European library-portals market
exploration of the various national library services markets
Executive Secretary of EUSIDIC , the European Association of Information Services
(
Board Member of the Dutch Platform Information Management
Executive Secretary of EXSPO - a platform to defend the interest of exhibitors at
library and information services events (see
Onderkant formulier
[1] We just had a highly sucessful conference about web2.0/lib2.0 applications. Video records are available on 5 DVD’s for € 200 (ELAGers € 150)