PRLog (Press Release) -
Jan 01, 2010 -
Ahmedabad, Thursday, December 31, 2009- LIBRARIAN® - Asia’s first Arabic Version of Library Management Software System “LIBRARIAN”
was commissioned at American Culture Centre, Alexandria, Egypt by CR2 Technologies Ltd., Ahmedabad with their strategic partner ACML, Alexandria, Egypt.
LIBRARIAN® - a Library Management Software has been designed & developed by CR2 based on Microsoft’s latest .NET technology and is currently being used by Fortune 500+ companies like IOCL & HP. Other users are Adani, Cadila, Intas etc. Academic institutes right from school to leading universities across the country have automated their libraries with the help of this software. Few of the universities have adopted the software as a part of their curriculum.
CR2 has entered into a strategic partnership with Egypt based M/s Alex Centre for Multimedia & Libraries (ACML). The interface of all the screens are in Arabic Language. ACML has assisted CR2 in translating all English words into Arabic language. The layout of the interface screens have been changed in reverse mode from right to left as done in Arabic Language. As per the agreement with ACML, they would market Arabic Version of LIBRARIAN® in Arabic language speaking countries in the Middle East & Gulf Countries like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, Kuwait, Dubai, etc.
“Arabic version of LIBRARIAN® would help the Arabian speaking people in developing their reading culture & to raise the level of literacy & education & managing the learning resources. This would spur overall objective to promote knowledge-based societies across the Arab world.” says Dr. Shawky Salem, Chairman of ACML.
“LIBRARIAN®
follows all the international standards like MARC21, Z39.50, AACR2, MARCXML, ISO 2079 etc. and is having UNICODE (Multilingual)
facility. The most attractive feature of LIBRARIAN® is that librarians or Resource Centre Manager can customize the application as per their requirements without the help or need from the software vendor. Our first successful installation in Egypt would increase our penetration in Arab World.” said Suyash K, CEO, CR2 Technologies Ltd.
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http://www.prlog.org/10471751/1CR2 Technologies Ltd. is an Indian company based at Ahmedabad. CR2 is a startup in the knowledge domain with a wide breadth of services across the entire Information Technology spectrum. CR2 helps in management of print materials, build the roadmap to getting there & leverage technology to make it possible for e-learning. The company's object is to design, develop, produce & deploy prepackaged, shrink wrapped, ready to use software products. CR2 intends to be No. 1 ERP vendor in the country for Higher Education Industry.
ACML is a shared Egyptian Company with Arab/Egyptian Capital providing Library & Information Sciences projects in the Middle East Region. ACML aims to build and develop the information infrastructure in its region, Also, ACML helps in building the digital libraries in academic and governmental organizations, and introduce the e- books, e-journals, e-media for libraries and information centres in its region.
