Kushwah, Shivpal Singh; Gautam, J N; Singh, Ritu(Inflibnet center, February 28, 2008)
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Abstract:
Open source solutions have made their impact on areas of information knowledge and content
management. Library automation system is one of the areas concerned to library community. It is a
big challenge for the libraries when they select the automation product for their library, where one
has to decide from various options available for the automation product such as commercial, non for
profit and open source. The paper describes the observations and makes comparisons on the basis
of discussion had with the library community using automation software in India. It also includes the
information available in related literature. Features of library automation software, which are mostly
in practice by libraries i.e. Libsys and SOUL, are compared with open source system KOHA.