Modern Management System in Libraries

Abstract

Libraries today are coping with change and searching for tools to assist them to deal with it, as well as creatingstrategic partnerships with other libraries. Cooperation appears to be the key to library survival. Cooperationefforts vary depending on geographic areas and cultural traditions, but they appear to be present around theworld: on the one hand, nations with strong libraries that are used to strengthen cooperation and sharing haveseen a flourishing of new cooperative initiatives and formal consortia; on the other hand, nations, where thiscollaborative practise was not within their culture, have received a boast towards it. The first libraries wererepositories for the earliest sort of writing, clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in Sumer, some datingback to 2600 BC. These written records mark the end of prehistory and the start of history. In the 1980s, theintroduction of online searching, i.e. digital databases, began to replace the library's print indexes andabstracting reference tools. While expensive and difficult to use, such resources were frequently mediated byhighly skilled librarians to provide broader access to print library materials (at least for the untrained).Although this finding was touted as revolutionary once more, it simply represented a more efficient and effectivemethod of offering basic library services.