Necessity of management system in libraries in digital environment

In the wake of technological advancements, individuals and organizations are making investments and finding ways to save time. Strategic alliances, collaboration on mutually beneficial areas and agreeable terms are taking place to achieve quick success and big targets. There has been a corresponding emergence of tools that make complex and time-consuming tasks much simpler and time-efficient. One of the sectors that have benefited significantly from this advancement is the library system. As a result of unprecedented explosion of information and its availability in different forms, the library professionals are facing new challenges in the field of library and information services. Globalization and Liberalization have also affected every aspect of human life in one way and emergence of ICT and its application in generation, communication and access of information in another way besides satisfying their user's information demand. To cope with these problems, the modern librarianship needs changes in their philosophy and practices from custodian of document to information provider and for this a strong Library Management System is a need of the time for improving customer services with reducing costs. An attempt has been made here to examine some issues and challenges related LMS in libraries in the present day information management paradigm. This study is based on the review of primary and secondary literature, which includes books, journals, documents, seminar papers etc. Relevant literature were also collected and consulted through internet browsing.