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Integrated Library Management Software (ILMS). Murari P Tapaswi National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India murari@nio.org. ODINCINDIO Marine Information Management Training Course 13-24 February 2006. What for and what is it?.
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Integrated Library Management Software (ILMS) Murari P TapaswiNational Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, Indiamurari@nio.org ODINCINDIO Marine Information Management Training Course 13-24 February 2006
What for and what is it? • Relieves manpower from clerical (routine) work for intellectual tasks • 4 main ‘housekeeping’ operations • Acquisitions • Cataloguing • Serials control • Circulation
ILMS: Acquisitions – Basic principles • Receive recommendation • Budget control • Document ordering /reordering • Reminders • Receiving • Accessioning (?) • Payment
ILMS: Catalogue – Things to understand • Acquire (import/export) data or type it out (data entry) • Cataloguing rules and formats: AACR; MARC • Document type, Bibliographic level • OPAC • Searching & retrieving information
ILMS: Serials control – Basic principles • Receiving recommendations • Subscription payment • Establishing check-in system • Reminders • Binding • Cataloguing
ILMS: Circulation – Basic principles • User profiles • Links to the catalogue • Lending/ receiving • Reminder work • Statistics
An integrated system Monographs Serials Catalogue of documents User profiles OPAC Output Circulation
If you get new ILMS software for your library how would you start using it? ?