Queens Library launches its daVinci ILS Platform.(infotech)( integrated library system )

Queens Library (QL), NY, the 2009 Gale/LJ Library of the Year and the highest-circulating library in the United States, is going live in January with its new daVinci Open Library Platform--a customizable integrated library system (ILS) and other components the library developed with ILS company VTLS.

QL and VTLS have been working on daVinci since 2008. Its architecture includes a heavily customized version of VTLS's Virtua ILS and other VTLS elements, as well as a QL-created, Drupal-based content management system that will host staff and customer websites, and many open source items, such as an Apache Solr search platform, a MySQL database, and Fedora Commons digital asset …