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Unit 3: Library Software Packages-II

Incorporates all required features to work in a networked environment i.e., LAN and Notes
WAN.
OPAC is versatile and very user-friendly with all options in-built.
OPAC is accessible over the web using any GUI-based browsers.
Provides comprehensive list of reports, master databases and authority files.
Provides facility to create, view and print records in regional languages.
Functionally it covers every conceivable operation of University library.
Available at affordable cost.
SOUL has been fully tested at a number of university libraries and critically evaluated by
team of experts and practising librarians.

3.3 Modules of SOUL

The SOUL has been divided into following six broad modules as shown in Figure 3.1.
Acquisition Module
Cataloguing Module
Circulation Module
Serials Module
OPAC Module
Administration Module
Figure 3.1

These modules have further been divided into sub-modules looking at the nature of functions
handled by various functional divisions in University libraries. Brief descriptions of the same
along with first screens have been given in the following pages.

3.3.1 Acquisition Module
This particular module provides facilities to handle work relating to acquisition of reading materials
of all types except serials, starting from suggestion/recommendation by faculty till accessioning,
invoice processing. Acquisition module comprises following six broad sub-modules as given in
Figure 3.2.

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