Blacksburg, VA and Paris, France - VTLS announced a new distributorship agreement with INEO media system (IMS) to represents VTLS in France. IMS is a subsidiary of Suez, a diversified company and one of France' six largest corporations. IMS specializes in multimedia products with special interest in libraries. A number of prestigious libraries use their solutions in France and around the world, one of which is Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

The agreement will provide a nationwide introduction of Virtua and Vital. IMS will handle sales, training and support. The IMS library division is headed by Jean-Pierre Sakoun, a veteran of the library automation business, and includes a team of librarians, analysts and project managers.

"We are happy and proud to represent VTLS software in France. We believe that the addition of Virtua and MediaView, our own documentary and multimedia portal for libraries, will become a winning, dominant solution in public, academic and special libraries. The fact that we already integrated our solutions in Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the pristine reputation of VTLS in technologies and service are the main reasons for our decision," said Jean-Pierre Sakoun, Directeur, Département Informatique et Systèmes d'Information Documentaire, INEO Media System.

"This venture comes as a result of increased interest in Virtua in the French library community. We are very happy to team up with INEO in order to purvey our products and services together to the libraries of France," said Jack Bazuzi, Managing Director of VTLS Europe. "INEO is a well known and highly respected company. Our collaboration will go along way toward providing world class solutions coupled with local presence and know how."

About VTLS Inc.

VTLS Inc. (www.vtls.com) is a leading global company that creates and provides visionary technology in library solutions. We serve a diverse customer base of more than 900 libraries in over 35 countries. VIRTUA is our premier ILS solution. VTRAX is our RFID technology offered through partnerships with Tagsys, TI and FKI Logistex. VITAL is our institutional repository solution provides cutting edge software and services for Digital Libraries. VTLS is also one of the few ISO 9001:2000 quality certified companies within the library industry.