Automating the House-keeping operations Experience At The IGM Library University OF Hyderabad

Abstract

Thispaper presents the experience of the Indira Gandhi Memorial (/GM) Library in automatingits house-keeping operations. It discusses at the outset the need for library automation and lists in brief various areas of library house-keeping operations that are amenable to automation. It further describes in detail the effort made towards the library automation i.e. theinitial efforts; the hardware and software selection and up gradation; building of database; link to the Campus Network and introduction of barcode technology to improve the efficiency of the circulation procedures etc;