VTLS
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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 by Dr. Vinod Chachra, who is still CEO of the company.
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, which has become a model for other library networks.
Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg is an incorporated town located in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and has offices in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Malaysia, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
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 by Dr. Vinod Chachra, who is still CEO of the company.
In the 1980s, Chachra and Virginia Tech Library Systems worked with Fred Glazer
Fred Glazer
Frederic Jay Glazer was an American librarian and director of the West Virginia Library Commission from 1972 to 1996. Nicknamed the "P.T...
of the West Virginia Library Commission to develop a statewide library automation network, which has become a model for other library networks.
Products
- Virtua, Integrated Library System
- VITALVITALVITAL is a suite of digital asset management products by VTLS based on the open source Fedora architecture.It was unveiled at the 2004 American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting. Version 2.0 was released November 29, 2005 after acceptance testing by Australian Research Repositories Online to...
, Digital and institutional repository solution - Visualizer, Facet based search tool
- Fastrac, RFID Circulation Management
- VTLS Digital Imaging, Digital ImagingDigital imagingDigital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of digital images, typically from a physical scene. The term is often assumed to imply or include the processing, compression, storage, printing, and display of such images...