Perceptions of Library Automated Systems

Abstract

Thedevelopment of computing and information processing technologies is remarkable and a new stage has been setting very often. New generation hardware, operating systems, programing language are forging and reliable systems are staging. Price structures of mainframe computers and minicomputers have substantially reduced owing to change in import policy. Microprocessors with higher and powerful capacities entered the market. Networks of various databases stormed into the users area. A new synergistic development has been formed with the new technological process and network of 'library and information automation. The traditional way of information dissemination is disappearing and the librarians are forced to develop creative work in the ever challenging world. The relative automation activity is revitalizing many libraries. The contribution of the new generation automated systems augments and supplements the efforts of enthusiastic library professionals. The usage of personal computers forms the base tool for information automation functions and activities in the large integrated systems. The traditional librarians are being transformed into systems librarians and learn the knowledge with the tools in their arms and develop themselves into new generation library and information professionals duly integrating into the processing systems.