Pleidelsheim, 15.09.2006: Next year, LIB-IT GmbH - specialists in the areas of Data Management, Enterprise Information Management Systems, Library and Portal Software - will equip the municipal libraries in the Austrian city of Linz with LIBERO Library Software. LIB-IT will be acting as a partner with 3M Austria, who won the contract to equip the libraries with RFID and library software.

The main focus of the project, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), is a technology allowing automatic identification and localisation of the existing 300.000 media, and thus represents a further improvement in library services. The integration of numerous interfaces, such as e.g. ePayment, emphasises the leading role of Linz in providing innovative software projects for the benefit of its citizens.

LIB-IT GmbH will install LIBERO in the Linz Central Library and its twelve branch libraries. LIBERO is a fully integrated and RFIDcompatible Library Management System which, in combination with the 3M SelfCheck© Systems, will allow a wider range of Self-Service functions for the library users. The application provides simplified account checking, easier reservation of media as well as an ePayment link and an improved telephone service.

The use of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) allows the automatic wireless identification and localisation of media, provides users with improved self-checking facilities, e.g. the return of items outside opening hours, and permits easy monitoring of "rotating" library stocks. These items "wander" through the various branch libraries and are thus more accessible for library users. LIBERO, the modern Library-Management Tool from the IT specialists in Southern Germany, covers not only all aspects of library activities and their accompanying business procedures, but also provides further advantages - such as a common address pool - due to interfaces with the program of courses offered by the Linz Adult Education Centre.

LIB-IT GmbH will supply 70 licences for the City, Adult Education and Administration Libraries in Linz, and also provide services in the areas of Training, Consulting, Installation, Data Conversion and Interface Programming. The background of the project is the planned relocation of the Linz City Library to the new "Wissensturm" ("Knowledge Tower") in August 2007.