Status of Library Automation: A study in National Library of Veterinary Sciences of the, Indian Veterinary Research Institute (Deemed University), Izatnagar (U.P.)
Abstract
The present study gives over view of status of library automation at National Library of Veterinary Sciences and exposure to open source library automation software “Koha”. The paper focuses on adaptation of new library automation software for bettor library services. Agriculture libraries are spread over every corners of India and sharing of the resources is essential amongst all these libraries in this new era. This library fulfills the need to search and share library catalogue by adopting library automation software with the International Standard in place of commercial software like Libsys. The commercial softwares are not maintaining the International standards like Z39.50 information retrieval service & protocol, MARC21 and UNIMARC etc. for library services. The standard defines how one computer system can co-operate with other systems for the purpose of searching databases and retrieving the records. The Koha-LMS for the library automation is one of the standards software maintains major features and modules for library services. It is one of the most used open source software for library management system.
Keywords
NLVS (National Library of Veterinary Sciences), IVRI (Indian Veterinary Research Institute), Library Automation, Koha, Koha-LMS, Open source software, Library Management system
