January 30, 2007:  For Immediate Release

VTLS Partners with WebFeat

Blacksburg, VA - Blacksburg, VA . VTLS Inc. has announced a partnership with WebFeat enabling VTLS to offer the WebFeat Express and WebFeat Custom federated search solutions to new and existing clients. Once integrated with VTLS.s Virtua Integrated Library System (ILS), WebFeat will enable VTLS customers to simultaneously search unlimited numbers of resources from a single intuitive interface.

With visionary features like Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Update Notifications through SDI, User Reviews & Ratings, and a Smart Device interface to the catalog, Virtua sets a new standard of excellence for the library world. Virtua provides full multilingual support and leverages a solid Oracle. foundation. Virtua is flexible software that lets administrators create custom profiles for each library and staff user, controlling access to over 600 functions throughout the library system. The WebFeat component of Virtua will seamlessly integrate its catalog functions, remote user authentication and Interlibrary Loan (ILL). WebFeat preserves all native Virtua catalog functions intact, including advanced search functions, holds, shopping cart functions, and ILL. The partnership further expands WebFeat.s family of partners, now collectively providing federated search services to over 5,000 libraries worldwide. "VTLS is constantly monitoring the market place to identify the premier solutions that best meet the needs of both our company and customers," said Vinod Chachra, Chairman and CEO of VTLS. "We believe that WebFeat represents that kind of state-of-the-art solutions and we look forward to working with them." Todd Miller, President of WebFeat commented, "We are very pleased to welcome VTLS into our growing family of WebFeat partners. The combination of WebFeat and VTLS state-of-the-art information solutions is a tremendous win for VTLS clients."

WebFeat (U.S. patent #6,807,539) is the developer of the WEBFEAT. and WebFeatExpress. Search Prisms, used by over 5,000 leading public, academic, government and Global 1000 libraries and information centers.including over half of the 20 largest U.S. public libraries, 16 statewide library systems, and 2 out of every 10 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions. WebFeat offers next-generation federated search tools to meet the needs of any library. Products include: The WebFeat Custom and WebFeat Express search prisms, WebFeat Enterprise Edition for multi-library networks and SMART., WebFeat.s usage tracker. The WebFeat Express International Edition supports 7 languages, enabling users to dynamically change language displays. Originally founded in 1992 as an information technology consultancy, WebFeat has earned industry recognition from leading organizations such as Library Journal and the Gartner Group. Learn more about WebFeat at http://www.webfeat.org.

About VTLS Inc.

VTLS Inc. www.vtls.com, a leading library automation company in business for over 30 years, provides visionary technology in library solutions to a diverse customer base of more than 900 libraries in over 32 countries. Virtua is our premier ILS solution, Visualizer is our facet-based data discovery tool, Fastrac is our RFID technology, and we also provide cutting edge software and services for Digital Libraries with Digital Imaging and VITAL, our Repository Services solution. VTLS is one of the few ISO 9001:2000 quality certified companies within the library industry.