Sharad Kumar Sonker ¹, Francis Jayakanth ¹

Affiliations
1 National Center for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, IN

Abstract

The explosion of computer and communication technologies, which are referred to as information and communication technology (lCT) have affected almost all aspects of human life including library. Libraries have been looking forward for better technologies even before the onset of the computers. Now in the information era, in order to avoid obsolescence of information, library professionals are applying advanced technologies to enable its user community to get the right information at. the right time. In order to achieve this objective, libraries are automating their services. To automate library services efficiently and effectively one needs an integrated library automation package. There are several commercial library automation packages now available but the costs of these packages are beyond the reach of most of the libraries especially the school and college libraries. Koha is the first open source library automation package, which can be downloaded from the Internet site (http://www.koha.org). In this paper we have briefly discussed different features that are supported by Koha.

Keywords

Koha, Open Source Software, Library Automation Software.

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P. Ganesan ¹, Francis Jayakanth ¹, T. B. Rajashekar ¹

Affiliations
1 National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, IN

Abstract

Science Citation Index (SCI) is a key database used by the research community in Indian Institute of Science. As this database was not available for access on the campus network, its offline usage was sub-optimal. To improve its usage we developed a profile-based E-Mail alerting service called Citation Alert Service. Every time an update database disc is received, the system automatically delivers, to the E-Mail address of individual faculty, details of his/her recent research papers indexed in the update disc, and papers that are citing his/her publications. Key issues to be considered in the system design are unattended processing of the update disc, and E-Mail delivery of downloaded records. We discuss in detail the design and implementation aspects of the system. E-Mail offers a convenient, fast and in-expensive mode of operating profile-based alerting services.

Keywords

Science Citation Index, Citation Data Delivery, E-Mail Alert Service, Citation Alert Service.

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