Library Automation System Research Articles

PENGEMBANGAN PERPUSTAKAAN SEKOLAH BERBASIS TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DI SMA NEGERI 2 DAN SMA NEGERI 3 PADANG

The purpose of science and technology activities for the Society (IbM) is to solve problems in the school library by providing understanding and management of libraries to library officer or teachers placed in the library to be able to manage the school library based on information technology in accordance with established standards. In this activity, it will solve the problem completely from conceptual understanding and conducting school library management practices based on information technology with the implementation of library automation system using Senayan Library Management System (SLiMS) and socialization of information literacy in the school library.The method offered to solve the problem of school library management based on information technology is the training is used lecturing method, question and answer, group discussion, and practice. Then this is followed by information socialization activities information technology-based information for all school members. Training activities accomplished properly according to the expected objectives of the program. This activity received a positive response from various parties and trainees can apply the use of SLiMS software in school library management. From the socialization activities for information literacy performed by involving all elements schools can increase their citizens’ understanding of various sources of information that can be utilized. So hopefully the school library can provide better service and the existence of school libraries will contribute significantly to the society.

Implementation of RFID Technology at Defence Science Library, DESIDOC : A Case Study

<p>Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) as a tool is being used for the better governance and management of libraries. A RFID system offers a complete package from security, theft detection, tracking, monitoring, inventory control, and act as an expedient in books circulation or charging and discharging of books; and, lessens the burden of librarians, who could be better redeployed to other productive activities in the service of the readers. RFID technology was implemented in Defence Science Library, Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi, in 2013. The study describes the process of implementation of RFID system in the Defence Science Library, at DESIDOC. It provides an overview of the work to implement the RFID system including the philosophy or the background or thought process that had gone into deciding in its implementation, the various features, technical specification of the library automation software and system itself. The constraints faced during the data migration and the visible advantages from the users’ perspective vis-à-vis manual operation are also covered. The study concludes that implementation of RFID technology has brought a bouquet of benefits to librarians, the staff and scientists or user of the Library. </p>

The prospects for IRBIS development: The new product - IRBIS64+

IRBIS64+ - the new product of IRBIS Library Automation System designed for building and maintaining digital libraries, is introduced. IRBIS64+ new functionality is revealed. New possibilities for users, including those with expanded access right, are described. The IRBIS64+ modules are named.

PENERAPAN SISTEM OTOMASI DI PERPUSTAKAAN FAKULTAS ADAB DAN HUMANIORA UIN ALAUDDIN MAKASSAR

The current information era encourages each organization to implement technology for various of easiness. The library as one of professional institutions develops automation system as form of the technology implementation. Senayan Library Management System or SLiMS is one of Free Open Source Softwares (FOSS) based web and used to build automation system in the library. Various service activities in the library can be implemented by using SLiMS. Library of Adab and Humaniora Faculty of UIN Alauddin, Makassar makes effort to implement the library automation system. This research wishes knowing more the automation system implementation, what service activities which have implemented and haven`t yet in automation system implementation, and the obstacles faced by Library of Adab and Humaniora Faculty of UIN Alauddin in automation system implementation.

Continuing education for LIS professionals: why

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to determine the outcomes of continuing education programs that are being carried out, either having positive or negative effects on the personal and professional lives of the participants.Design/methodology/approachThe research method used for this study was a survey, which had been based on findings derived from a comprehensive literature review. The data collection tool was an online questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale. Questionnaires were circulated to the 120 library professionals equally divided among three online discussion groups which have high rate of library professionals’ memberships: Pakistan Library Automation Group, Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization (PLWO) and Pakistan Library Club through emails. The 100 completely filled questionnaires were received and so the response rate was 83 per cent.FindingsThe study concluded that continuing education programs (CEPs) had positive effects on the participants’ professional as well as personal lives. The results revealed that CEPs improved librarians’ professional knowledge about digital resources, library automation and management systems, searching techniques, library management and skills regards team work. The effect on their personal lives was also noticeable: helped them to build confidence, increased personal interaction and developed their ability to research, leadership, communication and managerial skills. Therefore, the study clearly indicates that CEPs proved very helpful in capacity building of professional librarians.Practical implicationsThe paper clearly addresses the effects of CEPs on participants’ professional and personal lives. As expressed, the results CEPs are playing an important role in the capacity building of professional librarians. This study will stimulate CEPs managing associations or organizations to check outcomes, whether they are valuable for the participants.Originality/valueThis paper reports the effects of formal or informal training sessions on LIS professionals’ professional and personal lives.

Library Automation Systems Integration (Case: ELIB and SLiMS)

Abstract—The Library automation system help reduce much work need to be done by doing monotonous routine jobs with the help of technologies such as Barcode and RFID. Unila Library as the pioneer of RFID technology implementation in Lampung province face challenge in migration. Unila Library used SLiMS Library Automation System to manage collections, which use mainly barcode to identify collection. RFID uses allow collections to be scanned in gate and warn librarian. Unfortunately, SLiMS doesn't support SIP2 protocol which is needed by RFID devices (gate, kiosk) to function properly. Therefore, a solution must be made to address the migration of data and support SIP2 protocol. ELIB is a library automation software which support SIP2 protocol. So, library automation systems integration which synchronize both database in ELIB and SLiMS to keep up to date data and allow support for SIP2 protocol must be made in the form of middleware. Some of difficulties arise in integration was the development of both library automation systems which require fine tuning everytime update occurs and both systems in active use. Benchmarking is done to find anomaly and disreparancies of data. And, because the integration system is build as middleware, it remain flexible and open to future development. It can be concluded, Library automation systems integration require vigilance and keen observations into minuscule level especially because both systems are so different.Keywords— library, RFID, ELIB, SLIMS, SIP2, middleware

Identification, Preservation and Management of Cultural Heritage of Edirne, Turkey by Means of a Web-Based Application

Cultural Heritage can be expressed as the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including places, objects, practices, customs, values and artistic expressions. The care of its historical memory reveals the degree of civilization and morality of a city and/or country. In this regard, digitization plays a key role for conserving, maintaining and sharing cultural assets. In this study, an online access platform for conserving, maintaining and sharing the cultural assets of Edirne has been developed. Firstly, a new digitization and archiving application has been developed and integrated into existing library automation systems. Second, after obtaining their copyrights, available books, magazines and other printed materials have been scanned, indexed, abstracted and archived in the database of the online access platform. Finally, the digitized materials in the online access platform have been made publicly available. The project realized in this study will both enable to digitally conserve the available cultural assets of Edirne and hand them down to the next generations.

ФОРМУВАННЯ БАЗИ ДАНИХ «ПЕРІОДИКА» ЕЛЕКТРОННОГО КАТАЛОГУ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ НАУКОВО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНОЇ БІБЛІОТЕКИ УКРАЇНИ ІМЕНІ В. О. СУХОМЛИНСЬКОГО: ЗДОБУТКИ І МОЖЛИВОСТІ МОДЕРНІЗАЦІЇ

The article presents the information and bibliographic resource – e-catalogue “Periodicals” database of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi State Scientific and Pedagogical Library of Ukraine, which shows the content of the fund of the library contemporary periodicals. The author describes organizational aspects of this resource formation and the tasks concerning its modernization, the solution of which can provide for potential of the database technological platform – IRBIS 64 Library Automation System (LAS). Carrying out tasks will make it possible to improve the quality and efficiency of the automatized analytical-synthetic processing of periodicals and the level of bibliographic service of readers considerably.

Análise da produção científica em tecnologia da informação: Estudo panorâmico dos artigos publicados pelos professores de biblioteconomia da UnB

Objetivo. O estudo analisa a produção científica em tecnologia da informação pelos professores do curso de biblioteconomia, da Faculdade de Ciência da Informação, da Univeridade de Brasília (Brasil), por meio dos Currículos da Plataforma Lattes dos citados professores. Método. Adota o método indutivo, a pesquisa bibliográfica como técnica, pesquisa quantitativa como abordagem de coleta de dados e a análise documental a partir do Currículo Lattes (Plataforma Lattes) dos professores selecionados. Resultados. Apresenta as áreas bases de dados, bibliotecas e repositórios digitais como as que possuem maior produção, e as áreas metadados e sistema de automação de bibliotecas como aquelas com carência de trabalhos publicados; os tipos de registros mais utilizados são os anais de congresso, trabalhos de conclusão de curso e artigos de periódicos, e os pouco usados são as teses e resumos expandidos; além da identificação de outras áreas não elencadas no escopo inicial do trabalho tais como gerenciamento eletrônico de documentos, preservação digital, segurança da informação, arquitetura da informação, hipertexto e tecnologias aplicadas. Conclusões. A análise da produção científica auxilia na tomada de decisão, idealiza um panorama de pesquisa dos professores, ajuda a compreender como determinada área se comporta e sua principal composição de assuntos.

Design of Integrated Management System for Electronic Library Based on SaaS and Web Standard

Management systems for electronic library have been developed on the basis of Client/Server or ASP framework in domestic market for a long time. Therefore, both service provider and user suffer from their high cost and effort in management, maintenance, and repairing of software as well as hardware. Recently in addition, mobile devices like smartphone and tablet PC are frequently used as terminal devices to access computers through the Internet or other networks, sophisticatedly customized or personalized interface for n-screen service became more important issue these days. In this paper, we propose a new scheme of integrated management system for electronic library based on SaaS and Web Standard. We design and implement the proposed scheme applying Electronic Cabinet Guidelines for Web Standard and Universal Code System. Hosted application management style and software on demand style service models based on SaaS are basically applied to develop the management system. Moreover, a newly improved concept of duplication check algorithm in a hierarchical evaluation process is presented and a personalized interface based on web standard is applied to implement the system. Algorithms of duplication check for journal, volume/number, and paper are hierarchically presented with their logic flows. Total framework of our development obeys the standard feature of Electronic Cabinet Guidelines offered by Korea government so that we can accomplish standard of application software, quality improvement of total software, and reusability extension. Scope of our development includes core services of library automation system such as acquisition, list-up, loan-and-return, and their related services. We focus on interoperation compatibility between elementary sub-systems throughout complex network and structural features. Reanalyzing and standardizing each part of the system under the concept on the cloud of service, we construct an integrated development environment for generating, test, operation, and maintenance. Finally, performance analyses are performed about resource usability of server, memory amount used, and response time of server etc. As a result of measurements fulfilled over 5 times at different test points and using different data, the average response time is about 62.9 seconds for 100 clients, which takes about 0.629 seconds per client on the average. We can expect this result makes it possible to operate the system in real-time level proof. Resource usability and memory occupation are also good and moderate comparing to the conventional systems. As total verification tests, we present a simple proof to obey Electronic Cabinet Guidelines and a record of TTA authentication test for topics about SaaS maturity, performance, and application program features.

Who, what and how? Commentary on Cheney, F. N. (1963) The teaching of reference in American Library Schools

Cheney's paper was the first major article on this subject (Gleaves & Tucker, 1983, p. x). Its author, Frances Neel Cheney, had been teaching at the Peabody School of Library Science in Nashville since 1945. As a past president of the Association of American Library Schools (1956-1957) and the Reference Services Division of the American Library Association (1960-1961), she was well positioned to address three questions:1. Who is teaching reference?2. What is being taught?3. How is it being taught? (Cheney, 1963, p. 188)The paper was based on a presentation made June 21, 1962, as part of a session on the training of reference librarians at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Miami Beach (Armstrong, 1963). As such, the paper reads more like a conference talk than a formal journal article.As Richardson (1992), himself a student of Cheney, documented in a thorough analysis of the first hundred years of reference instruction from 1890-1990, reference has long been a core course in library school curricula. The questions used to frame Cheney's discussion remain relevant today. What has changed is the pervasive impact of technology that has affected who is teaching, what is taught, and how it is taught. Cheney (1963, p. 188) observed that am not scared of automation, I am grateful for it. For one thing, what would we do without the telephone? Of course, in 1963 libraries were only beginning to explore the potential of computers (for example, the first Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing was held at the University of Illinois in spring 1963). But even though Cheney continued to teach until 1975, Gleaves (1983) reports that Most of her work came before the computer revolution and she was never enamored of technology. She neither taught, spoke, nor wrote about the more technical aspects of librarianship, and certainly she did not stray into the emerging high technology of library automation or computerbased information systems (p. 13).So how has the teaching of reference changed in the more than 50 years since Cheney offered her assessment of the state of the field in 1963? She focused on the 32 library schools with ALA-accredited programs; that number has grown to 58, several of which also identify as Information Schools (iSchools).Who is teaching reference?Cheney noted that those teaching reference included both full-time and part-time faculty and more men than women. She also noted the increase of doctoral degree holders among those holding full-time faculty positions. While aggregated data profiling who is currently teaching reference are not available, the teaching of courses in the traditional core has certainly been impacted by overall trends in the composition of faculty. Tenure-track positions are reserved for those holding the Ph.D. in a growing variety of disciplines; other fulltime faculty may have titles such as lecturer, clinical faculty, or professors of practice with a focus on teaching. As student enrollments have outpaced increases in full-time faculty, more part-time/adjunct faculty have been hired. With the growth in online education, those part-time faculty can be located anywhere, so efforts must be made to coordinate instruction by a distributed group of faculty teaching reference.What is being taught?Cheney focused on both the basic course, an introduction to reference materials and services, and the proliferating range of more specialized courses dealing with particular subject fields (e.g., science and technology, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine) or publication types (e.g., government publications). The basic reference course included coverage of reference materials-their content, evaluation, organization, and use. There was a consensus on types (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks) but not specific titles to be taught. The course also considered the kinds of reference service and reference questions. …

Towards a new library system

Purpose – Finnish libraries are using different integrated library systems. Higher education libraries funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture are using the same ILS in three different installations on the same hardware. Special and public libraries are using several different systems. Many of these library systems are reaching their end-of-life phase. During the spring and summer of 2011 all the Finnish library sectors together with the National Library of Finland formed a joint committee in order to assess the feasibility of a library system entirety, possibly an open source solution that would suit the needs of all the different types of libraries. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the planning for the acquisition of a new library system initiated in year 2012; the concept is to try to establish a joint system with common databases for all the libraries in all sectors willing to collaborate in this effort. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the evolution of the Finnish library systems and evaluates the methods used in the planning of the new library automation system. Findings – The broad model of group working was useful in policy making and committing the libraries to the joint project. Using social web-technologies were efficient in project communication and marketing. This type of semi-professional planning was not able to produce accurate specification for programming thus a need for follow-up project became evident. Research limitations/implications – The paper is based on Finnish experiences. Social implications – The paper presents a case about the usage of group working in the planning of a library automation system with an evaluation of the possibilities and restraints on this type of approach. Originality/value – The paper provides an analysis on the usability of broad group working type of approach to the policy making and planning of library automation systems.

Information Technology Application in Small and Medium-Sized Professional Library Business Management - With the National Institute of Metrology Library as an Example

This paper analyzes the problem during the application of outsourcing’s library automation system in small or medium professional library, example for national institute of metrology library; constantly improves the process of self-building business management platform for decades and introduces difficulties in the application of information technology to business management in small or medium professional library. The key to solve the problem is put forward.

Moving Beyond Library Automation: Role of Digitization in Academic Library

Modern academic library is a conglomeration of printed books and journals as well as electronic resources where both forms of the documents can be stored, retrieved and delivered as and when required. The automated library system is capable of handling large volumes of documents and of providing timely and effective information services to faculty, research scholars and students in achieving their goals. Digitization is an electronic process of converging information from a print format to a digital format. The process of digitization involves the scanning of the print material into digital. Computer based information system for acquiring, storing, organizing, searching, distributing and displaying digital materials for end user access; not necessarily network-based but designed and constructed so as to be capable of attaching or being attached to a network. Purpose of Digital Library, Vision of Digital Library, Managing Digital Library, Digital Preservation, Copyright and Licensing.

Impact of automation on library services in selected management institutes at Aligarh

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of automation on library management services of four selected management institutes at Aligarh. Design/methodology/approach – The investigators used a fashioned questionnaire and informal interviews. They chose samples on the basis of a stratified sampling method and administered the questionnaire according to a random method for collecting the data. Findings – The study revealed that 3 of 4 libraries are partially automated, with the exception of Al-Barkaat which is completely automated. Seventy per cent of librarians believe that automation has improved their library’s services, while 85 per cent of users believe that an automated library system is better than the traditional manual system. Of the four libraries, three have a shortage of general staff and three also lack qualified specialized staff to deal with automation. Research limitations – The investigators could only select four management institutes because of time and logistic constraints, despite Aligarh being the educational hub of western Uttar Pradesh. Originality/value – Although many studies of the same kind have already been conducted on library automation in different areas of world, this paper revealed the current status of automation in libraries of selected management institutes at Aligarh.

Public library staff’s perceived value and satisfaction of an open source library system

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine public library staff attitudes towards an open-source library automation system in the state of Indiana. The researchers were interested in understanding the library staff’s perceptions of the value of the system in performing their job duties and improving library services. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers travelled to nine public libraries every three months to survey library staff from January to December 2010. The participants completed the surveys at the libraries and were given the option to remain anonymous. The survey consisted of six questions regarding the use of the Evergreen system for work processes and basic demographic information of the staff. There were a total of 323 survey respondents. Of the 323 respondents, 57 (17.65 per cent) used the Evergreen system in their daily work routines at the library. Findings – The primary benefits reported were: ability to check the availability of library materials at other Evergreen libraries via the shared catalogue, the Evergreen system provided more functionality than their previous library automation systems and the ability to reserve materials for patrons. Research limitations/implications – This was a convenience sample. All survey participants provided their responses voluntarily during the 12-month study period. A more comprehensive sampling procedure should be considered in the future. Originality/value – The study indicated the need for improvements in the Evergreen Indiana system. Those improvements were also relevant to other open-source integrated library systems.

From the centralized national collection policy towards a decentralized collection management and resource sharing co-operation – Finnish experiences

Purpose – Finland had a legislation-based centralized collection policy until the mid-1990s. The main components were national resource centers (selected higher education libraries) and provincial libraries (selected public libraries). This paradigm changed during the recession of the 1990s when new public management ideologies were adopted by the government. This ended the centralized model and a new policy favoring a decentralized collection management which demanded resource sharing. The models designated for the print-only age became obsolete also when the digital dissemination of especially scientific documents began to be the norm. The Finnish libraries have started to implement a new strategy consisting of different elements including a new model of library automation systems, the National Repository which is the hub for the resource sharing of print materials, digitization projects (to be especially implemented by the National Library) and with new policies defining the roles and responsibilities of each of the libraries involved. This article aims to describe the history of the Finnish centralized collection policy, its shift to the modern management of the collection as well as the philosophy and tools used in this work. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the evolution of the Finnish national collection policy and its main trends. Findings – The National Repository Library has enabled Finnish university libraries to focus their collection policies and to make savings in the cost of premises. A new business model for the digital era is needed for document sharing between libraries. Research limitations/implications – The paper is based on Finnish experiences. Practical implications – Models for national and international collection and preservation policies are presented. Originality/value – The paper provides proposals for the building of global division of work in the long-tail management of documents.

Parents of Invention: The Development of Library Automation Systems in the Late 20th Century

Prior to his death in 2012, Christopher Brown-Syed was the editor of the journal, Library and Archival Security, and taught at Seneca College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Earlier in his career, he was an employee of the library automation vendors, Plessey and Geac. Parents of Invention is a collection of memoirs and reflections on the developments in library automation from the late 1970s through the middle 1990s, from the viewpoint of employees of vendors and libraries at the time. Parents of Invention gives insight into the development of integrated library systems during this period, which saw the revolution of circulation and catalog functions in libraries. Brown-Syed writes from a Canadian perspective, and many of the contributors to the book are from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. Brown-Syed is cognizant of US libraries and vendors, and refers to US examples and experiences on occasion. The author interviewed fifteen individuals via phone and email while researching this book. A closing chapter contributed by Louise O'Neill of McGill University, Canada, addresses future trends for automation in libraries. Online bibliographic retrieval systems for literature searching are briefly discussed, but readers of a certain age will notice some of the facts are wrong. Ovid, a well-known bibliographic database vendor, is rightly credited with revolutionizing online searching through end-user access to its CD-ROM products in biomedical libraries. Ovid's publication of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE to CD-ROM kept many librarians busy during this period with changing discs and watching for overheating of CD-ROM towers. However, Brown-Syed does not use the correct company name for the period discussed, which was CD Plus Technologies, a name that Ovid carried from its founding through the early 1990s. CD Plus did not change its name to Ovid until the late 1990s, when client-server and Internet technology made access to online journal articles possible. Also, typographical errors are noticeable throughout the book. American readers may be distracted by British spellings, abbreviation conventions, and world view. Still, the book is a valuable contribution to documenting the challenges that the parents of invention were faced with while working together to implement new technologies to improve library operations. This book is recommended for library and information science students, and anyone interested in reading histories of library automation and librarian memoirs.

Remote access to information sources in National and university library: development of service

ABSTRACTNational and University Library established remote access to information sources in september 2004. The article describes implementation and development of the service. Library wanted to offer information sources to users wherever and whenever they would need them. First main evaluation criteria for software selection were integration with existing authentication system and second no need for intervention user side. The EZproxy software from Useful Utilities was chosen. Key step to implementation was establishing communication between software applications EZproxy and COBISS library automation system. Library needed to obtain licence agreements from publishers. Promotion campaign aimed to notify large number of users. Only users of National & University Library were able to use the service. Other users and libraries of Ljubljana University requested to authenticate by credentials of their library. Remote access service was developed further in order to enable authentication for other libraries. We needed to establish authentication and authorisation system and also upgrade and install the communication command procedure on different servers. The data about service usage are presented.

Feasibility of adaptation of open source ILS for libraries in Kenya: a practical evaluation

Purpose – Despite its fast growth and penetration in all sectors, it has been noted that open source software (OSS) is yet to find its optimal place in libraries, particularly libraries in the developing countries. Lack of documented information on the experiences and use of open source integrated library system (ILS) is a major drawback, and so the need for this study. The proposed study aims to help to investigate and test usability and cost effectiveness of a typical OSS for ILS. It will involve deploying the software from installation, configuration to creating customized user interfaces and structures that are specific to the requirements of the library's parent organization. The cost and performance of the OSS will then be compared with that of a typical commercial based software with the same functionalities. Design/methodology/approach – A preliminary study has been conducted to collect data from libraries in the country through distribution of questionnaires to provide data for accurate analysis that will form the basis for recommendations. The target group includes library and IT personnel in the various institutions and the end-users within sample group. A case study is proposed to help establish OSS effectiveness in libraries. To test a typical OSS, parameters are to be drawn from two models – open source maturity model and business readiness rating. Findings – A casual observation of the Kenyan situation reveals that the majority of academic, public and research libraries depend on commercial, free or locally developed systems. This scenario may be attributed to lack of knowledge (or interest) in OSS alternatives and lack of sufficient technical expertise to support them. While there are quite a number of libraries and librarians worldwide that have shown a great interest in OSS, few library administrators have actually implemented OSS. Could this be due to fear of taking on the risks that may come with reliance on open source library automation systems? Is the low uptake due to lack of sufficient technical expertise in the libraries? The research outcomes will help formulate a model and guidelines to be used by systems librarians considering the use of OSS for library processes. Factors to be considered when deciding on OSS will be outlined. Research limitations/implications – This paper is of importance to library personnel in Kenya as it establishes the effectiveness of OSS, with the aim of empowering the library staff who have for a long time relied on their IT departments and vendors for systems installation and implementation. Originality/value – The study will result in a comprehensive evaluation of the economic and functional advantages of OSS as an alternative for the library in Kenya. Librarians involved in selection of software for their libraries will find this helpful when deciding on the type of software to select for their libraries. It will help to enlighten library professional about the value of OSS and how they can participate in the development of their own systems, instead of always relying on vendors.