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The SEBLib digital library is a powerful corporate library management system specialized
for use in business organizations. It offers you efficient sharing of all of your
material among your team and employees. It is built as a site template for Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and as such it is integrated
into your organization’s intranet portal offering you flexibility and extensibility
included in the underlying document management and collaboration system.
The goal of the SEBLib digital library is to become the starting point in the search
for knowledge within your organization. Employees can get all necessary information
about material that is available internally as well as guidance on alternative ways
of obtaining material they need for their work from external sources. In addition
to searching an internal library, you can check links to popular web libraries and
online stores, which is very useful for less skilled users who are not familiar
with search engines on the internet. Knowing where to find it is half the battle
of getting the material you are looking for. Lots of books can be found for free
on various web portals; in this same way you can provide uniform instructions and
procedures for buying new material with links to your favorite online book stores.
SEBLib offers personalized pages where users can see their favorite material, reservations,
loans and wish lists. With a user-friendly search, you can find the desired material
either by full text search inside digital material content or in a more advanced
way by specifying various predefined metadata fields (author, title, category, location
etc.).
In business organizations, material is often distributed among various teams as
opposed to the classical library where material is stored in a central location
– on library shelves. Lack of a central catalogue of purchased material limits material
availability to closed groups of people. SEBLib material can be managed by the people
who own it and use it the most. At the same time, material remains available to
everyone inside of the organization. Every user can manage his material and is responsible
for loaning it. Using SEBLib, material is always close by for the people who need
it most, and other users can get a valuable opinion on material from the person
who knows it best. This can be a step forward to sharing knowledge and networking
among otherwise isolated teams inside an organization.
All data including attached digital material content is stored in standard SharePoint
lists that can be easily extended to meet your needs by adding additional fields,
new lists and external data sources. Site design, page navigation and web part arrangement
can be changed very quickly. The library can be accessed with a web browser without
any additional installations on the client computer. Use of standard SharePoint
elements and navigation allows fast learning and easy adoption since users are already
familiar with your SharePoint intranet portal.
SEBLib consists of the following main parts:
- Library home page gives you general information about new library material,
announcements and links to external web libraries and online bookstores.
- My library page contains relevant information for the current user.
- Search pages for simple and advanced material search by content and metadata
fields.
- Material lending pages for reserving and borrowing physical material.
- Library management pages for entering editing material and related data like
categories, locations, languages etc.
- Library settings page for setting site properties.
- Library users page
for managing user, groups and permissions.
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