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Library Automation

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Integrated Library Information System

Acquisition System OPAC Circulation System

Technical System Serial System

Serial Control
The complex job of keeping track of serials can easily and effectively be handled using
SOUL through its Serial Control module. This module broadly handles following functions.
Suggestions.

Subscription (renewal and new subscription)
Payment including fund control etc.
Check in of issues including reduction of issues arrival.
Reminder generations.
Binding management.

Search status of every item.
Master databases management.
For the successful implementation of an integrated library system all key factors must be
in place support from administration, staff, competence, consideration of user requirements,
presence of infrastructure, (hardware, software, networks) available data, excellent
managerial skill from the coordinator of the project.
Question
Analyse the case and write down the case facts.
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10.5 Summary

A periodical is an on-going publication with a distinctive title, which comes out in issues
at regular intervals e.g. daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly etc.
Periodicals (Librarians call them “serials”) come in a variety of styles and are published
for a variety of audiences. They offer news, opinion, commentary, scholarly analysis,
literary criticism, and reports of research.

The Library subscribes to a comprehensive range of periodicals. Some of these are in print
format, while an increasing number of periodicals are available electronically and are
known as electronic journals.

While a number of electronic journals are not listed on the library catalogue they are
accessible from the Electronic Journals page.

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