A Study of Aautomation in College Libraries of Delhi University: Special reference to Kamala Nehru College and Lady Shri Ram College for Women

The present study is discusses the numerous reasons for automation and tries to analyze the various factors that directly or indirectly affect the progress of library automation such as acquisition, collection development, level of skill of library staff, availability of suitable library automation software and also management issues with special reference to Kamala Nehru College and Ladi Shri Rama College for Women of Delhi University. The study is also carried out to reveal the importance of automation to acquisition and collection development, the best way of circulation and Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). In addition to these, the present study made all out efforts to highlight the barriers militating against successful College libraries automation, like financial problems, attitudinal problems of staff members, lack of cooperation among the University and College authorities, computer hardware and software problems. The survey method was adopted and used the questionnaire to gather necessary data from the Librarians and the Users of both the colleges