Pandey, Shri Ram; Singh, Pankaj Kumar(Inflibnet Centre, March 2, 2011)
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Abstract:
Open Source movement has tremendously influenced Information industry in general and digital
libraries in particular. Many of the open source digital library software available on the World
Wide Web are developed based on highly sophisticated programming language, which needs in
depth knowledge and guidance for installing, implementing, customizing and integrating with
other open source software. They generally do not cater to the needs of beginners who want to
develop software in open source environment. Present paper is an attempt to enable Integrated
Library Automation Software (ILAP) Koha, as a digital library especially koha version 3 in the
view that koha can support digital library functionality.
Kushwah, Shivpal Singh; Gautam, J N; Singh, Ritu(Inflibnet center, February 28, 2008)
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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.