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Unit 3: Basic Knowledge of Library Software

done in terms of affordable multilingual assistive technology development, adoption of Notes
standards, awareness and education, implementation and policy level aspects to provide
web based accessible solutions to include these specially-abled citizens towards nation
building. Efforts and initiatives taken in India do not directly pertain to libraries.
The efforts need to be consolidated and directed towards libraries. Indian Library
Association and library and information professionals should come together to formulate
standards and guidelines for developing multicultural and multilingual collection for
different types of libraries. Users of multilingual libraries need to be guided and served
properly with maximum information. Cue can be taken from standards provided by
various countries, professional associations and templates available. There is no dearth of
software with multilingual support are available in India like LIBSYS, SOUL, Shree-Lipi
7.2 software contains various packages, Ankur, Indology and of course the Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the
Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of
Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) and one of the products is Multilingual
Computing. Since there is enough technical and technological support effort is required to
direct and coordinate it with libraries. India must develop a set of standards and guidelines
for developing multicultural and multilingual collections to do justice to its diverse users.
Questions
1. Write down the case facts.
2. What do you infer from it?
Source: http://conference.ifla.org/past/ifla78/162-kaur-en.pdf

3.4 Summary

Current LMSs are integrated systems based on relational database architecture.
LMSs are now established as an essential tool in the support of effective customer service,
stock management and management of services offered by libraries.

LMSs support selection, ordering, acquisition, processing, circulation, serials control,
dissemination of information services and also extend help in library administration,
planning and decision making process as a management tool.
The basic requirements for any modern library automation package to satisfy such
expectations may be studied under two broad categories – general system requirements
and functional requirements.
The LMS must be fully integrated, using a single, common catalogue database for all
operations and a common operator interface across all modules.

The LMS should be based on web-centric architecture and extend support for a range of
multi-user and multitasking operating systems and RDBMSs.
The aim of DMA subsystem is to support search, retrieval and viewing of multiple media
formats from client machines by using a web browser.
The LMSs presently available in India may be ranked in 2nd, 3rd and in between 3rd and
4th generations on the basis of their features.

Packages are selected for discussion on the basis of their customer base and popularity.
The package must provide security to prevent accidental or unauthorised modification of
records through the establishment of access privileges unique to each user on the system
and restriction of specific functions to specific users.

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