About US

Ugandan Libraries Forum is Uganda’s most trusted site for library Digitalization using the latest software .

Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, we’re informing libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. We enable libraries to use open-source software to its full potential by providing outstanding commercial support services -  migration assistance, staff training, support, software maintenance, and development – solutions tailored to each customer’s needs.

Use of open source not only lowers the per-library cost of running software, it also empowers libraries with a higher level of control over customization and the overall direction of software development.Powered by Sparklinksystems

Powered by Sparklinksystems

About Koha

Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe including Sparklink systems company in Uganda

Reliability

Open-source software is peer-reviewed software. It is exposed to extreme scrutiny, with problems being found and fixed instead of being kept secret until the wrong person discovers them. This peer-review process results in a code base that’s more reliable than closed, proprietary software. Mature open-source code is as bulletproof as software ever gets.

The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.”

Security

With proprietary software, source code is ‘closed’ and support and future development of the product rely solely on the success and resources of a single vendor. If the vendor goes under, so does your product support.

In contrast, our open-source software products rely on stable code bases developed and supported by many providers worldwide. As a result, libraries using our products have more support options than those using proprietary software.

User-driven

Traditional vendors must focus on providing functionality improvements that meet the needs of the majority of their customers in a large and diverse market.

In contrast, open-source software features emerge from the community of users that have paid for or developed and contributed them. This makes open-source software development user-driven: you decide what features are important and deserve attention rather than a vendor.

Cost

Instead of paying licensing costs for proprietary solutions, users of open-source software can often deploy the product at no cost. They pay only for needed support or any additional product services they require.

Innovation

Because the code is open, users are free to innovate, improving the software to meet their needs. They can accomplish this either by joining the development process directly, or by paying software developers like LibLime to develop their ideas.

Free innovation also means that open-source software often has much faster development cycles when compared to proprietary software.

Collaboration

Ugandan Libraries Forum in conjuction with sparklink systems l can assist libraries with development of any special functionality that they need. After development is completed, tested, and accepted, Sparklinksystems helps build the open-source community by contributing these functions back to the project so that other libraries can use and benefit from them. Additionally,Sparklin systems ltd customers benefit from the contributions paid for by other libraries. This software development model is library-driven; it allows libraries to benefit from many advanced technology solutions that they otherwise could not afford to develop themselves and still gives them the option to steer development if they so desire.

  • Uganda Libraries Calender

    May 2012
    M T W T F S S
    « Jul    
     123456
    78910111213
    14151617181920
    21222324252627
    28293031  

  • RSS cnn

    • Suspect arraigned from hospital in Etan Patz slaying May 25, 2012
      Pedro Hernandez was arraigned via video from Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, where a source said he's on suicide watch. Etan Patz, 6, vanished 33 years ago Friday.
    • U.S. sailor is 3,000th Afghan war death May 25, 2012
      Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan J. Wilson of California was the 1,974th U.S. death and the 3,000th overall coalition death, according to CNN's count.
    • Mom of 3 kids abandoned in shed found May 25, 2012
      Three children -- all apparently 3 years old or younger -- were found in a shed among a group of homeless people. Police in Oregon now say they located the mother.
    • Bud nears Mexico, now a tropical storm May 26, 2012
      "Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion," forecasters warn has Hurricane Bud nears Mexico's Pacific coast.
    • Syrian activist's plea: 'Do something' May 26, 2012
      Syrian government forces pounded the central province of Homs on Friday, killing more than 50 people including children, opposition groups said.
    • Brush fire closes I-4 near Disney World May 26, 2012
      A brush fire in Orlando about five miles from Disney World prompted authorities to bar traffic along a major highway through the central Florida city, a police spokeswoman said.
    • Gunman frees hostages, shoots self May 26, 2012
      A gunman suffered two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head Friday after freeing hostages in Valparaiso, Indiana, authorities said.
    • Brazil president vetoes part of forest bill May 26, 2012
      Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vetoed 12 articles of a controversial forest bill approved by Congress last month, which was promoted by the powerful agriculture lobby but slammed by environmentalists.
    • Opinion: Privacy is far from dead May 25, 2012
      Whatever the outcome of Facebook's public offering of stock, the social network has already enriched quite a few ? as well as famously offered many hundreds of millions of people a new virtual social world. Yet critics claim that Facebook is hastening the demise of privacy, which as the cliché goes, is already on life support.
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.