Alessandria is an open source software library management. With this application, you can manage books, readers and loans in a library
Originally, the software was developed to meet a specific need. Manage a library French small town. The staff wanted to perform this management using a spreadsheet. As developer I thought we could do much better. Before reinventing the wheel I leaned on existing free solutions such as Koha or PMB, comprehensive and professional but require significant training time. So I decided to make myself an easy to learn and tailored to the needs of a small structure
NDM. The software is under GPLv3 license and is developed with Django, c ‘is a web application
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main Features
- Management books with possibility to import ISBN
- authors and publishers Management
- readers Management
- loans Management
The software is currently in version 0.95 which can be considered as a beta version. However, it is already used in “production”. Version 1.0 will include a module that will allow librarians to perform a series of statistics over time, for example: “What proportion of detective novels borrowed in 2016?” Note that
. the application has been designed from the outset to be multilingual.
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