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V-smart Implemented in Two French Libraries

Last summer, Infor completed its first V-smart implementations. Two prestigious French libraries, the libraries of Sainte-Geneviève University (BSG) and La Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP), have implemented V-smart to meet the needs of a varied student population, enable the access to diverse library collections, and support specific workflow requirements. With the benefits of a web-based, ‘open', and customizable library management system, staff in both libraries offer users improved services and better access to information.

At BSG, V-smart has been equipped with an integrated Stack Request module, which allows users to request items that are held in the closed stacks of the library. Over 30,000 students and faculty may take advantage of this service, along with many other offerings of the library, to fully utilize a rich collection that spans many disciplines and includes over 2,000,000 books, 15,000 periodicals and 85,000 microfilms. In order to ensure proper management of its electronic resources, BSG will also be implementing V-sources, Infor's electronic resources management system, constituting the product's first implementation in France.

The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris includes 40 student residences in the south of the French capital and represents the largest concentration of residence halls in Paris and the Ile-de-France region. CIUP offers students quality housing, and a whole range of facilities and services related to everyday life, from sport to culture.

The Central Library is the main spot for research at the Cité. Through V-smart, students have access to a large number of multidisciplinary collections ranging from law, to medicine, the major sciences and the humanities. The library's collections include reference works, editions to classic texts, dictionaries, encyclopedias, research studies and manuals for many different disciplines and over 400 news publications and periodicals. The Cité also offers specialized collections about Germany, Brazil, Spain, Japan and Mexico in separate libraries, located in their respective residences.