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Library Automation

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Abstract: In India, there are many libraries where library automation and use of new information technologies are in planning stage. Librarian and library managers are making effort to automate their libraries. Authors of this paper try to accommodate each and everything, which required for successful library automation. This plan describes the Basic elements of managing the automation planning process in primarily special and R & D libraries. This write-up provides a detailed overview of a planning process designed to help to make decisions about library automation. Practical suggestions are offered on how library manager can effectively organize the process of library automation. Library automation and serves as a framework of establish the …show more content…

The term ‘Automation’ was first introduced by D.S. Harder in 1936, who was then with the General Motor Company in United States. He used the term automation to mean automatic handling of parts between progressive production processes.
Library automation in India:
A brief historical perspective In 1936 Ralph H. Parker, then loan librarian at the University of Texas Library, published one of the first articles on library automation (1936). This article described the implementation and detailed the practical usage of two Hollerith punched card machines. One machine perforated punched cards and the other sorted them. The process enabled the lending department to more easily handle collection and circulation clerical issues. The significance of this first step towards library automation was not lost on Parker, who summed it optimistically with regards to the future of librarianship as a “new day of no mistakes, no nervous strain, and much less manual labor for the library

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