Free software for libraries, its importance and use: the GNUTECA case

This article presents the importance of the use of softwares for libraries, having "free software", its advantages. Through the use of “Gnuteca-Sistema de Gestão de Acervo, Empréstimos e Colaboração para Bibliotecas” (Gnuteca-System of Collection Management, Lending and Collaboration for L...

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Autores: Damasio, Edilson, Ribeiro, Carlos Eduardo Navarro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/2036
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/2036
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Softwares for libraries
Libraries - computerization
Free software
Library science
information sciences
Softwares para bibliotecas
Bibliotecas – informatização
Software livre
Biblioteconomia
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Sumario:This article presents the importance of the use of softwares for libraries, having "free software", its advantages. Through the use of “Gnuteca-Sistema de Gestão de Acervo, Empréstimos e Colaboração para Bibliotecas” (Gnuteca-System of Collection Management, Lending and Collaboration for Libraries), that was developed by the Center Univ. Univates, it is being used in Brazil and other countries. It uses the methodology GNU and was developed to use MARC21 standards and to import data of Microisis. The article presents the types of softwares, the importance of softwares without costs, and the definition of free software. It has as a result of bibliographical research, the use of Gnuteca, its advantages for the libraries, its interoperability with others softwares, its main modules and its interface in the InterNet. It was demonstrated that it is a viable software for libraries that do not want to have costs with licenses of softwares.