SLiMS (Senayan Library Management System) is a free and open source Library Management System. It is build on free and open source technology like PHP and MySQL. SLiMS provides many features such as bibliography database, circulation, membership management and many more that will help “automating” library tasks. SLiMS is licensed under GPL v3. SLiMS Free and Open Source Library Management System.
SLiMS Features
As a complete Library Management System, SLiMS (Senayan Library Management System) has many features that will help libraries and librarians to do their job easily and quickly. Below are some features provided by SLiMS :
- Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) with thumbnail document image support (for images of book covers), Simple Search and Advanced Search mode
- Digital contents/files (PDF, DOC, RTF, XLS, PPT, Video, Audio, etc.): attachment in each bibliographic record is supported
- Documents record detail in MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) XML format
- Documents record detail in JSON-LD format with schema.org
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication) XML format for OPAC
- OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) in Dublin Core format for metadata harvesting purposes
- Bibliographic/catalog database management with book cover image support
- Union Catalog creation with Union Catalog Server
- Serial publication control
- Federated search engine creation with Nayanes
- Document items (book copies) management with barcode support
- Master Files management to manages document referential data such as GMD, Collection Types, Publishers, Authors, Locations, Authors and Suppliers
- Circulation support with following sub-features :
- Loan and Return transactions
- Collections reservations
- Quick returns
- Configurable and flexible Loan Rules
- Membership management
- Stocktaking module to help Stocktaking process in the library
- Reporting and Statistics
- System modules with the following sub-features :
- Global system configuration
- Modules management
- Application Users and Groups management
- Holiday settings
- Barcodes generator utility
- Database backup utility
- Responsive user interface
- 3rd party bibliographic records indexing support with Sphinx Search and MongoDB