- More efficient record keeping in automated environments
- Improving the efficiency of the issue, return, and renewal process
- Lower costs and reduced repetition of housekeeping operations
- Maintaining bibliographic records of all material in one computerized           environment 
- Providing a wider access of information


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Design and implementation of more sophisticated computer systems to complete activities that were formerly performed by hand in libraries. The automation process has grown to encompass the fundamental activities of acquisitions, cataloging and authority control, serials control, circulation and inventory, and interlibrary loans.

Library Automation

Velip, M. P. (2018). Library Automation: An Overview. International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, Volume-2(Issue-6), 475–477. https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd18559 

- Initial investment for installing the automation program can be very expensive.
- Intensive training is required for library staff on automation technology,
- Systematic coordination with other departments of the organization is necessary for the automation program to be successful.
- Retrospective conversion of data can be expensive and time-consuming.
- The software package for automation needs to be regularly updated. 





Challenges to Library Automation

- Pre-computer era (1936-1950s)
- Stand-alone era (1960s)
- On-line system (1970s)
- Micro-computer era (1980s)
- Web era (1990s)
- Open era (2000s)

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