Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgement. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Acquisition section. 3. Classification and cataloguing. 4. Circulation section. 5. Services and Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). 6. Member maintenance. 7. Binding section. 8. Periodical management. 9. Usage and preservation of rare books in digital format. 10. Article indexing, abstracting, scanning and image browsing. 11. Reference and information services. 12. Resource sharing, internet and web-OPAC design. 13. Management of hardware, software, network and data. 14. Administration of library and information system. 15. Appendix--VLIS an automated library management system. 17. Bibliography. Index.

"An attempt has been made through this book to deal with all the important facets of the Library digitization, and it is aimed at meeting the needs of information professionals who want to modernize the library services. The book provides step by step work flow of the library in automated computerized environment and also it will be of help to trainees and students of library and information science as well.

VLIS-an example of automated Library management application package, is designed and developed based on the material contained in the book." (jacket)