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The article highlights the meaning, need of library automation, and expected approaches for the same. Mentions the parameters for planning to automate the house keeping operations of a library. Deals with one's experience in automating a college library within the required dateline. The experience of automating the house-keeping operation includes acquisition, cataloguing, circulation and serial control section of the library along with stock verification with the help of DCU.