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Library Automation

Notes Hardware: The physical components of a computer that can be seen and touched by a user.
House-keeping: General care, cleanliness, orderliness, and maintenance of business or property.
Indexing: Indexing is the process of creating indexes for record collections.
Labelling: Display of information about a product on its container, packaging, or the product
itself.
Library Automation: Library automation is the application of computers and also connected
tools to the processing of data in a library or libraries.
Maintenance Costs: Maintenance costs are often used to compare maintenance performance
between companies or between plants within the same company.

Multimedia: Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content
forms.
Need Assessment: A needs assessment is a systematic process for determining and addressing
needs, or “gaps” between current conditions and desired conditions or “wants”.
Periodicals: Periodicals are publications which are issued at regular intervals, such as journals,
magazines, and newspapers.
Retrospective Conversion: The process of converting the bibliographic or documentary details
of the existing stock into the machine-readable form is known as retrospective conversion.

Software: Software is a general term for the various kinds of programs used to operate computers
and related devices.

1.8 Review Questions

1. Define Library automation.

2. What are the objectives of Library automation?
3. Discuss the advantages of Library automation.
4. Explain the disadvantages of Library automation.

5. Describe the need for Library automation.
6. What do you understand by Retrospective conversion?
7. Write brief note on OPAC.
8. Discuss the stages of Library automation.
9. Explain the Challenges in Library Automation.

10. Describe various trends that have taken place in library automation.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. True 2. False
3. False 4. Catalogue or Index
5. Increase 6. Three

7. True 8. False
9. True 10. Pricey

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