A STUDY OF STATUS OF LIBRARY SERVICES AUTOMATION IN SCIENCE COLLEGES AFFILIATED TO GONDWANA UNIVERSITY, GADCHIROLI

Abstract

Any educational institution’s library is considered of as its beating heart. Modern educational structures are built on a solid foundation of well-equipped and maintained libraries (Takappa and Ramakrishna, 2017). When it comes to giving user access to information, academic libraries are essential. Academic libraries serve as hubs for educational activity where students and teachers conduct extensive information searches (Kuri 2022). The dissemination of information, which is a significant element of every nation’s educational institutions, is facilitated by libraries. The library as an organization identifies, chooses, gathers, processes, stores, and distributes information to the appropriate person at the right time. The knowledge was preserved in the form of books, monographs, manuscripts, handouts, and several other media for use now and for preservation purposes in the future (Vasantha and Adithya, 2022). Automating the conventional library operations and services, including cataloguing, circulation, acquisition, serial control system, and associated tasks, is known as library automation (Ajani and Buraimo, 2022).  In order to keep up with the demands of the modern information age and provide better services to its patrons, libraries must incorporate automation into their daily operations (Balaji and Krishnamurthy, 2013).  Library employees get a lot of help with their daily tasks from this automation, and it also offers conveniences like simple operations via database access across geographies utilising the internet (Nayana, 2019).