BiblioteQ

[Rudy5]

[Mod note: the present post was deleted by its author, who replaced it with a single character; in order to minimize the damage, the original program name and homepage URL will be reposted wherever possible.]

BiblioteQ strives to be a professional cataloging and library management suite, utilizing a Qt interface and providing connectivity to PostgreSQL and SQLite. The SRU and Z39.50 protocols are used for retrieving data for books, journals, and magazines. The software is available for all major operating systems and should be compatible with any system that supports Qt. BiblioteQ is distributed under a BSD license.

Summary

ARM architecture support.
Administrator roles.
Alpha architecture support.
Cataloging of books, dvds, grey literature, journals, magazines, music cds, photograph collections, and video games.
Cover images with drag and drop support.
Customized displays.
Customized item data, pricing information, and currencies.
Embedded hyperlinks for localized searches of similar items.
Exporting of views to CSV files.
Free and Open Source technology.
FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, OS/2, OpenBSD, Windows, etc.
Front cover image retrieval via Amazon and Open Library.
Importing of books from CSV files.
Internationalization (translation) support. BiblioteQ currently supports Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, and Russian.
Item file attachments.
Item reservation.
Listings of overdue items, requested items, and reserved items.
MARC21 and UNIMARC record syntaxes.
Optional item reservation histories for patrons.
PDF reader via Poppler, where available.
Patron information.
PostgreSQL accounts with various privileges.
PowerPC support.
Print support.
Qt 4.8.x and Qt 5.x support.
Rich search capabilities, including custom SQL queries.
Sparc64 support.
Support for multiple SRU and Z39.50 sites.
Support for requesting unavailable items.
Threaded data retrieval via the standard Z39.50 protocol for books, journals, and magazines.
Transactional database queries.
True PostgreSQL and SQLite pagination.
Uniform functionality across various platforms.

Home: https://biblioteq.sourceforge.io/ Download: https://github.com/textbrowser/biblioteq/releases

Status: Portable - writes to the application folder, but not stealth for a registry key QtProject

[webfork]

It's been quite a while since I've seen software that supported PowerPC, OS/2 and ARM. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen that.

Library management software is complex and frequently not free (or cheap), so someone trying to do an open version of this is fantastic. I'd be interested to hear whether it's in use at actual libraries.

[juverax]

In the above post, the download link from github is relative to the current version, therefore it cannot be used as the regular access to the file.
Solution: Follow the link on sourceforge: https://biblioteq.sourceforge.io/, it will take you to a page on github https://github.com/textbrowser/biblioteq/releases where you can download the release.

Note: BiblioteQ is also on Softpedia: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Ho ... oteQ.shtml