VTLS
VTLS Inc. is a company providing library automation software and services mostly to government and university customers. VTLS counts over 900 libraries in 32 countries. VTLS is also one of the few ISO 9001:2000 quality-certified companies within the library industry. VTLS Inc. is based in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, and has offices in Brazil, Canada, France, India, Malaysia, Spain and Switzerland.
VTLS began as Virginia Tech Library Systems, an automated circulation and cataloguing system created for Virginia Tech Newman Library in 1975. VTLS was started as a for-profit company in 1985[1] by Dr. Vinod Chachra, who is still CEO of the company.[2]
In the 1980s, Chachra and Virginia Tech Library Systems worked with Fred Glazer of the West Virginia Library Commission to develop a statewide library automation network[3], which has become a model for other library networks.[4]
[edit] Products
- Virtua, Integrated Library System
- VITAL, Digital and institutional repository solution
- Visualizer, Facet based search tool
- Fastrac, RFID Circulation Management
- VTLS Digital Imaging, Digital Imaging
[edit] References
- ^ "Company Profiles". Library Journal. April 1, 2006. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6321189.html.
- ^ The Research Division at Virginia Tech - EDGE
- ^ Glazer, F. J. (1985). That Bibliographic Highway in the Sky. Library Journal, 110(2), 64.
- ^ Chepesiuk, R. (1996). West Virginia state librarian Fred Glazer fired without explanation. American Libraries, 27(6), 19.
