Implementarea sistemului de informatizare Softlink Liberty5 la Biblioteca Centrală Universitară București (BCUB) a constituit un proiect de anvergură, în care echipa mixtă formată din consultanții firmei Softlink Central Europe și specialiștii BCUB au reușit ca într-un interval de timp de doar 10 luni să realizeze o veritabilă performanță de management al schimbării, cu următoarele caracteristici: 

The implementation of the Softlink Liberty5 automation system at the Central University Library of Bucharest (BCUB) was a large-scale project. The joint team, consisting of consultants from Softlink Central Europe and BCUB specialists, managed to achieve a genuine change management performance in an interval of just 10 months, characterized by the following:

• Data migration from three different, outdated, and unsupported library systems (1,076,071 titles and 2,121,337 volumes), including verification, correction, and record unification.

• Integration with three other auxiliary management systems.

• Re-barcoding of collections across all 20 branch locations.

• Customization of interfaces and templates for entering, editing, and viewing resources and users.

• Report creation, establishment of system access privileges, and rules for collection access.

• Staff training for the institution's 215 positions.

• Configuration of the mobile application, which allows users to easily search the library catalog, communicate with the library in real-time, and quickly and efficiently access various services offered by the library.

As a result, the system was successfully launched on October 1, 2022, just 10 months after acquisition, without a single day of service interruption.

The Softlink Liberty5 system is an exclusively web-based application, integrating the latest digital technologies, and providing a high-performance centralized platform to manage, discover, and deliver both the physical and digital resources held by the library.