Design and Development of In-House Software for Library Automation

This paper introduces the design and development of In-House software for the automation of libraries. Information and communication technology (ICT) brought a lot of challenging issues to all facets of the educational system and the library is not an exemption. Automating a library is a unique decision that makes the library activities easy for prompt service delivery to the users. The development of this software is a step towards achieving this goal. The most distinguished feature of this software when compared with other available software is that it is designed for the low budget institutions having lesser collection of books. The software is developed in four stages by analysis, design, development and implementation. As we know that a number of software are already available for the automation of libraries, In-House, Commercial or Free/Open source, like e-Granthalaya, Koha, SOUL, LIBERO, LIBSYS7, VERSO, Lexwin etc. But the major problem with all such software is their high cost as well as requirement of high performance computing facility; which leads less budget institutes to remain out of the services and facilities of ICTs. Our main purpose behind this is to make available library automation services to Government schools and colleges of J&K state of India and even in the entire locations of the country located in remote areas.