Manual of Library Automation and Networking

Librarians and information professionals are faced up at present by fast changing environment and the pace of technology. The main aspects to this change are new technologies and the potential for new services which they bring. At the same time library users and their requirements are also changing. They are now coming with new prospects and take a firm stand on high quality service. On the other hand the range and variety of information sources that librarians now deal with cover print materials, CD-ROMs, online bibliographic databases in different types of formats, electronic journals, digital text supplied from a number of vendors or downloaded from internet. This book is an attempt to appraise the librarians, students of library and information science and others who have no mathematical background and having very little or almost no computer know how, to become cognizant about the basics of new technologies and their applications to various activities in libraries and information centres, so that they can adopt the use of new technologies to their everyday work.