Success of higher education depends on the presence of a well-developed library system that is easily accessible from every department in the college/university. The academic library provides a number of effective and powerful user services to students, faculty, and research scholars. Thus library automation, which directly impacts the provision of library services, is indirectly connected with the higher education system. Initially, library automation in India started with the retrospective conversion of their library collections by using print catalogues and accession registers. Later, libraries started replacing the print catalogue with OPACs, with many libraries maintaining both print and OPAC due to concerns about technology and power failure issues. The management of the educational institutes have begun realizing the importance of the library and are allotting greater support for computers and automation software.
The INFLIBNET Centre has played a major role in developing the IT culture in libraries across the country. Funding from INFLIBNET for library computing infrastructure made a substantial impact in the community. The training programs conducted for library and computer professionals.
There are number of advantages of library automation such as library automation reduces the drudgery of repeated manual efforts in library routine. By use of library automation collection, Storage, Administration, Processing, Preservation and communication etc. Also it has some barriers such as impact on employment, expensive software packages, etc.
But overall library automation has a positive impact on users. Maximum users know about automation system implemented in the libraries. They are now habituated with the automated library sources and services like web OPAC and due book reminder and many more.
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