TY - JOUR AU - HAN, Yan AU - Rawan, Atifa PY - 2007/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Afghanistan Digital Library Initiative: Revitalizing an Integrated Library System JF - Information Technology and Libraries JA - ITAL VL - 26 IS - 4 SE - Communications DO - 10.6017/ital.v26i4.3269 UR - https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/3269 SP - 44-46 AB - <p>This paper describes an Afghanistan digital&nbsp;library initiative of building an integrated&nbsp;library system (ILS) for Afghanistan universities and colleges based on open-source&nbsp;software. As one of the goals of the Afghan&nbsp;eQuality Digital Libraries Alliance, the&nbsp;authors applied systems analysis approach,&nbsp;evaluated different open-source ILSs, and&nbsp;customized the selected software to accommodate users’ needs. Improvements include&nbsp;Arabic and Persian language support, user&nbsp;interface changes, call number label printing, and ISBN-13 support. To our knowledge, this ILS is the first at a large academic&nbsp;library running on open-source software.</p> ER -