Digital Library Automation Planning Designing and Development

Contents Preface 1 Use of ICTs in libraries 2 Standards of library automation 3 Library automation in India 4 Digitization of libraries 5 Designing a digital library 6 Automation and changing library services 7 Cataloguing in digital libraries 8 Management of digital libraries 9 Digital libraries challenges and opportunities 10 Decision support systems 11 Features of bibliographic utility networks Bibliography IndexLibrary automation refers to the use of computers to serve the needs of library users The operations of a library get a quantum jump with the introductions of computers The computers help to provide fast and reliable access to the resources available in the library as well as elsewhere The internet and the worldwide web have pushed libraries to be even more interdependent than before because of the bewildering array of sources and providers of information from which they draw their informationThis book offers the most thorough treatment available on the application of computer science techniques to library and information services After explaining the basics of automated library systems the book presents the tools which aid in the design of all aspects of these systems For information scientists programmers analysts managers students and anyone dealing with issues of automation in the library or information retrieval this book is destined to become one of your most frequently consulted references jacket 254 pp.…