About
"This completely rules, as you kids say."
Peter Ivanick, Drexel University

About ViewFind

VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:

  • Catalog Records
  • Digital Library Items
  • Institutional Repository
  • Institutional Bibliography
  • Other Library Collections and Resources
VuFind is completely modular so you can implement just the basic system, or all of the components. And since it's open source, you can modify the modules to best fit your needs or you can add new modules to extend your resource offerings.

Power

VuFind runs on Solr Energy. Apache Solr, an open source search engine, offers amazing performance and scalability to allow for VuFind to respond to search queries in milliseconds time. It has the ability to be distributed if your need is to distribute the load of the catalog over many servers or in a server farm environment.

Licensing

VuFind is offered for free through the GPL open source license. This means that you can use the software for free. You can modify the software and share your successes with the community!

VuFind in Action

InstitutionStatusILSLaunch DateSite
Villanova University Beta Voyager May, 2008 Falvey Memorial Library
George Mason University Testing Voyager - George Mason Libraries
Georgia Tech University Testing Voyager - Georgia Tech Libraries
College of William and Mary Testing SirsiDynix - Swem Library
Lehigh University Testing SirsiDynix - Lehigh University Libraries
National Library of Australia Beta Voyager - NLA Catalogue
Drew University Testing SirsiDynix - Drew University Library

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Releases

VuFind 0.8.2 released (Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:54 GMT)

Released at Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:54 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.2.tar.bz2 (10508797 bytes, 16 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.2.tar.gz (10497863 bytes, 28 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.2.zip (10651579 bytes, 28 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.8.1 released (Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:57 GMT)

Released at Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:57 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.1.zip (10649831 bytes, 24 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.1.tar.gz (10496445 bytes, 9 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.1.tar.bz2 (10507845 bytes, 10 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.8 released (Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:26:32 GMT)

Released at Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:26:32 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.tar.gz (10559530 bytes, 497 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.7 released (Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:43 GMT)

Released at Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:43 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.7.tar.gz (15969438 bytes, 899 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.6.1 released (Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:59:31 GMT)

Released at Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:59:31 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.6.1.tar.gz (7951149 bytes, 401 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.6 released (Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:55 GMT)

Released at Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:55 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.6.tar.gz (7952238 bytes, 681 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.5 released (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:56:51 GMT)

Released at Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:56:51 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VUFind-0.5.tgz (7736414 bytes, 700 downloads to date)
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Downloads
The first public release is available in beta status. Visit the download page.
Falvey Memorial Library


VuFind is developed and maintained by Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library.

News

Version 0.8 is now available
March 18, 2008 - We are proud to announce the release of VuFind 0.8. (0 comments)
Version 0.7 is now available
December 12, 2007 - We are proud to announce the release of VuFind 0.7. This release is chock full of enhancements and new features. There are no major backend changes so an upgrade should be very easy. (0 comments)
ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia
December 11, 2007 - Come see VuFind in action in our home town of Philadelphia at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January. We will be sharing booth #318 with PALINET during the Exhibition. We will also be hosting a session on Saturday, January 12th at 10:30am. We hope you will come and see us! (0 comments)
2 presentations, 2 conferences, 2 days
October 24, 2007 - Chris and Andrew of the VuFind development team will be presenting at 2 conferences in October. The first presentation will be at the Palinet 2007 Conference in Baltimore on October 29. The second presentation will be at the ExLibris User Group Meeting on October 30 at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ just outside of Trenton. We hope to see you there! (0 comments)
VuFind Profiled in Smart Libraries Newsletter
September 06, 2007 - Marshall Breeding reports on VuFind in the September 2007 issue of ALA TechSource's Smart Libraries Newsletter. It's great to see Open Source initiatives - especially VuFind - profiled on the front page! (0 comments)
Version 0.6 is out the door
August 16, 2007 - The latest version of VuFind has been released - version 0.6. I hope you will enjoy this one, there have been some nice new enhancements and plenty of bug fixes. (0 comments)
Roy Tennant Reviews
July 20, 2007 - Roy Tennant, now with OCLC, has blogged a fantastic review of VuFind. http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1050012105.html (0 comments)
VuFind is released as Open Source!
July 20, 2007 - Villanova University announces VuFind, a next generation library catalog, is now freely available as Open Source software. (1 comments)