Library Automation in India:past,present,and future

摘要

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. India has a tong history of higher education and libraries, which started very early with the Gurukul educational system when a huge university was set up at Takshashila (now in Pakistan called Taxila) in the sixth century BC. Nalanda and Vikramshila were established in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, respectively.