Résumé:
This stdy deals with subject of open source software documentaries and
their applications in the Algerian university libraries, through she ding light
on the most important stages of managing the transitional project to these
softwares in the Central Library of the University of Basher, which has been
chosen as a model to the field study.
this study Has addressed to the general concepts about both types of
software, closed and open source documentaries, in terms of the design
requirements and the standards adopted in purchasing them, through the
most important services they provide.
The study also discussed the methods of developing software locally to use
them .and the licensing agreements. Besides it discusses the policies and
plans for the transition to open source software documentaries in the
university libraries through the case study of the central library of the
university of Basher . as a sample of the Algerian university libraries which
apply the results of the study showed that the application of such projects is
still in its very beginning and under experiment .it yet achieved has not the
required level . this transitional project is an experiment that requires further
investigation and encouragement in order to generalize it to include the
other Algerian university libraries .
The study concluded a set of results that the application of such projects are
still in the very beginning, the entry of the experiment has not lived up to the
required level, but the experience of transformation calls then stand up and
work to develop and encourage those who made it for circulation to the
various university libraries in Algeria.
