Why Automate The Library?: - Efficiency - Productivity - Access

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Why Automate The Library?

Efficiency Productivity Access

Why SLIM?
Todays Technology Complete System Sharing Resources Cost Retrospective Conversion Information Sharing Administrative Control Features

Hardware Configuration
Server machine (Standalone)
Intel Pentium 4 onwards 256 MB RAM 10 GB HDD 1.44 MB FDD 256 KB Cache 104/101 TVSE KEYBOARD 2 Serial and 1 Parallel Port 14 SVGA colour Monitor with 64 Bit Controller Card Ethernet Card with Boot ROM (Optional if stand alone machine)

Back up Device
IOMEGA ZIP 2.2 GB / CD writer for BACKUP - Optional

Server machine (Networking)


Main Server (Required if Network is to be maintained) Intel Pentium III based server onwards 256 MB RAM 16 KB on-chip cache PCI/ISA BUS 256 KB High Performance write Back Second Level cache 1 x 1.44 MB Sony Floppy Disk Drive 10 GB Hard disk Drive PCI FAST SCSI 11 Controller capable of 10 MB /s; (Bus logic / infocom) PCI SVGA Controller 2 Serial Port; 1 High speed Parallel Port; 1 Mouse Port and 1 Keyboard Port 14 SVGA Colour Monitor with 64 bit PCI VGA Controller Card with 1 MB DRAM 101/104 Keys TVSE Keyboard Ethernet Combo Card

Printer
InkJet or LaserJet Printer of standard make - Optional

UPS
1 KVA Smart UPS-APC SUS 3 G UPS with 30 minutes back up time

Networking
24 Port UTP Hub, Cat 5 Cabling + Connector Per Nodes

System software requirement


Server Machine
Operating System Win XP Prof / Win 2000 Server / Win 2003 Server Others IIS installed on the server machine for WebOPAC to work

Client Machine
Operating System Win XP (any) / Win 2000 (any) / Win 2003 (any) Others Support for multiple languages (optional)

Database
SQL Server (Optional)

Type the URL http://libmngserver/w21/

we will get the home page

Word search : Type the word to be searched in the Search text box and click Go. The search engine will search the word in all the access points , bibliographic description elements of records and the result will be displayed according to the match found.

Word search

Detail about the books

Collection
To make a collection of different items check the box which is present next to Details link and click on "Collect Items" link while browsing.

To see the collection , click Collection. Collected items will be displayed.

By following the same procedure we can collect the different books in collection.

To display your collection in user


defined format click on Show Option.

This will open the default option dialog where you can give sort order, display format, lines per page. Click on Apply. To hide that option dialog click on Hide Option.

By clicking show option you will get bar showing options like sort order, display format, items/page, one page & apply.
In Sort order, Natural Author, title Title Item type, author title Item type, title Subject, Item type, author title Item type, subject, author, title

In display format Tabular Publication Bibliography In items/page 5 10 15

Show Options

Contact library
To see the library contact information, click Library. Phone number and a link to the librarian's e-mail address will be displayed. To send an e-mail to the librarian, click the link. This will open the default mail client where you can type your message and send an e-mail to the librarian.

Contact library

Introduction
This page is expected to have introduction to the library for the users of the library.

Information
This page is expected to have additional or changing information about the library.

Hits
This shows the no. of people visited this page.

Active users

This the number of people who are currently using the software.

Help
As the name indicate that if the user have any problem with respect to any tab information can use the help option.

My Info
My Info will allow a user to see his or her account information. For this you need to Log in. To Log in as a user, click My Info on the home page. Type the User ID and Password and click Log In.

My Info

Advance Search

We can specify different selection criteria for the search, such as range of Accession Dates, Accession Numbers and Year of Publication. we can also select one or more material types as well as choose the catalogues to be searched.

The Catalogue menu list allows us to select a catalogue or item description field using which we formulate a search. A catalogue has index entries which speed up the search. For example, the Author catalogue has names of authors (usually surname first.)

Advanced search

By clicking on Scope option will get this result

Browse
This page displays a list of all the access points in the current catalogue.

When you click on browse this slide is displayed.

On this page various options are available like Select Catalogue, Select Script, Search For.

Browse

Scope
Clicking on Scope will display a list of Item Types from which the item types of interest maybe selected to filter the search.

Expected
View list of expected items

Reference Items
This slide show the reference copies in the library.

Journal List

whenever we click on page nos. in bottom 1,2,3 it shows next journals.

Media List

Rules

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