Library Automation and Open Source Solutions Major Shifts & Practices: A Comparative Case Study of Library Automation Systems in India.

dc.contributor.author	Kushwah, Shivpal Singh
dc.contributor.author	Gautam, J N
dc.contributor.author	Singh, Ritu
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-18T10:49:15Z
dc.date.available	2010-05-18T10:49:15Z
dc.date.issued	2008-02-28
dc.identifier.isbn	978-81-902079-6-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1247
dc.description.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.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Inflibnet center	en_US
dc.subject	Library Automation	en_US
dc.subject	Open Source	en_US
dc.subject	SOUL	en_US
dc.subject	LibSys	en_US
dc.subject	KOHA	en_US
dc.title	Library Automation and Open Source Solutions Major Shifts & Practices: A Comparative Case Study of Library Automation Systems in India.	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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