Since July 2000 libraries all over the country have successfully installed Amlib, Brodart Automation's new Library Management System, and even more are waiting to have their systems installed. Amlib now has over 200 installations worldwide.
This success is due in part to Amlib's comprehensiveness, ease of use, and extreme flexibility in configuration options. Amlib's features include Acquisitions, Authority Control, Report Generator, OPAC, Item Maintenance, Internet Catalog, Inter-library Loan, Serials, Self-Checkout, Community Information and Facility Booking, to name a few. Combined with its sound history in the field, these features make Amlib not only attractive, but affordable.
"The ease of the conversion to the new system surprised me. Amlib is providing our library with abilities that I thought only large libraries could have," said Leah Green, Director of the Dubois Public Library, Brodart Automation's first Amlib installation.
Sharon K. Thomas, Director, Blossburg Memorial Library, PA says, "We had looked at other automation systems and we felt that the Amlib System was the easiest to run and it offered more product with many features that the other systems either didn't have or were too pricey for a small town library."
"The quality ... has been way over and above anything we had expected or previously experienced. We feel we had been driving an Edsel and have now been given a Mercedes." Anne Rogers, Director, Paris-Bourbon County Public Library, KY
Recent installations include the Norristown School District, an eleven-site union installation, and the Pottsville Free PL, PA, with a database of over 100,000 records.
From Amlib's inaugural success, installation has continued steadily all over the country in both school and public libraries:
PA - DuBois Public Library
OH - Bryan School Library
PA - Blossburg Public Library
PA - Elkland Public Library
PA - Ulysses Public Library
IN - Monterey Public Library
PA - Norristown School District Library
IN - Pulaski w/Medaryville Public Library
KY - Paris-Bourbon Public Library withBookmobile
KY - Cynthiana-Harrison Public Library w/Bookmobile
KY - Rockcastle Public Library with Bookmobile
PA - East Norriton (Norristown) School Library
PA - Paul V Fly (Norristown) School Library
IN - Francesville Public Library
KY - Menifee Public Library
IN - Owensville Public Library
KY - Elliot Public Library
KY - Lawrence Public Library with Bookmobile
TX - La Marque Public Library
KY - Garrard Public Library with Bookmobile
PA - Norristown High School Library
OH - Flesh Public Library
IA - Grand View College Academic Library
PA - Eisenhower (Norristown) School Library
PA - Whitehall ES (Norristown) School Library
NJ - HG/Hackensack High School Library
PA - Stewart Middle (Norristown) School Library
PA - Marshall Street (Norristown) School Library
MT - LM/Lincoln County Public Library
PA - Hancock (Norristown) School Library
PA - Cole Manor (Norristown) School Library
PA - Gotwals (Norristown) School Library
PA - Roosevelt Annex (Norristown) School Library
IL - Ella Johnson Public Library
PA - Pottsville Free Public Library
PA - Mengle Memorial Public Library
IL - Fox River Grove Public Library
MI - Milan Public Library
KY - Perry County Public Library with Bookmobile
TX - Dublin Public Library
TX - Stephenville Public Library
PA - Punxsutawney Memorial Public Library
PA - Lancaster Christian School Library
KY - Meade County Public Library with Bookmobile
PA - Summerville Public Library
The Automation Division of Brodart Co. offers products and services with options varying from online to PC based systems, CD-ROM products, large union catalogs, to Internet products, database services, and Library Management Systems. To learn more call 800-233-8467, ext 6581 .