Library Automation in Modern Age

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Automation of reference service. 3. Library acquisition automation. 4. Role of technology. 5. Change in library services. 6. Dynamics of library. 7. Library services and their users as a system. 8. Library architecture and systems. 9. Automation in cataloguing. 10. Library management: problems and prospects. 11. Copyright protection and management systems. 12. Copyright and distance education. 13. Retrieval process. 14. Access. 15. Plan. Bibliography. Index.

"Library automation is the use of automatic and semi-automatic data processing machines to perform such traditional library activities as acquisitions, cataloguing, and circulation, etc.

With the development of sophisticated tools and techniques, now library automation has become easy and more accessible. Definitely, the information contained herein will prove equally useful and informative to academics as well as professionals in the field concerned." (jacket)