PMB (software)

PMB is a fully featured open source integrated library system. It is continuously developed and maintained by the French company PMB Services. PMB follows the rules of the library science. The software provides 4 essential features : It provides an integrated portal of news and management of Web 2.0 content and is the only ILS that doesn't use a third-party CMS for the management of the portal. It is multilingual (100% English & French, 80% Spanish and Italian) and even supports Arabic (translation and UTF8 support) since its 3.0.5 version of November 2006. The latest 4.2 version of July 2015 includes a watch unit (Watch&Share) and allows geo-referencing of the collections and several other improvements to the software. The software is used with collections up to around 500 000 records. Tests are done with 2 million records to show its capacity to manage bigger collections. It is regularly installed in public libraries networks of 10 to 15 sites. PMB allows to use the Z39.50 protocol (in order to import bibliographic records that can be directly integrated in the database from different servers).