Integrated Library Softwares in Engineering College Libraries: a Study of Effective Use in Karnataka

The quality of a higher education is gauged on the quality of the library collection and services offered by it. Libraries from time and on are striving to improve their collection and services to fulfill user requirements, by adding many new services as result librarians are putting every effort in utilizing IT related advantages to improve library services. The present study is an attempt for finding out the ways to make use of the available library resources in the best possible manner. This shall greatly help the library professionals in rendering the most valuable resources of the library in an effective and viable manner and helps the user to adjudicate for procure of best and most resourceful as per their need. No software package can meet all the requirements of a given library system. Inevitably, some compromises will be needed in work flows, input, output and report formats. Customization takes lot of time, by doing that, other problems could arise. Therefore, while evaluating the library software it is important to prioritize the requirements and make sure that the chosen software meets most of the high priority requirement.