The Aklan State University (ASU) Library in Banga, Aklan is gearing towards automated library system in partnership with Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) through its Korean Overseas Volunteer.
The Main Campus has already established an automated library system. The catalog module is a cataloging tool designed to make library work faster, easier and more efficient. The circulation module plays an important task. It assures rapid and accurate issuance, recording and checking on the return of several hundred books lent each day; administer the books reserved and others. Librarians are now considered as processors of information. Instead of looking for information about the books in stack, librarians and library clienteles can access bibliographic records of the library through Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) terminals.
This system will replace the manual registration procedure of writing down the clientele information every time they visit the library. The information of the clientele will automatically appear upon swiping their bar-coded library cards in the computer terminal when they come in or out of the library. This module also helps the librarian determine how many clienteles visited and left and who are still in the library. At present, the clientele barcodes are being disseminated to the students.
The Library automation will succeed through the work performed by hardware, software, and the people concerned. To date the total record of reference materials are 2,765 titles and 3,567 volumes. An estimated 80 percent of the students and faculty members’ data are now available at the ASU new library system.
The KOICA assisted project is projected to be operational on the 2nd half of 2007. /MP
The Main Campus has already established an automated library system. The catalog module is a cataloging tool designed to make library work faster, easier and more efficient. The circulation module plays an important task. It assures rapid and accurate issuance, recording and checking on the return of several hundred books lent each day; administer the books reserved and others. Librarians are now considered as processors of information. Instead of looking for information about the books in stack, librarians and library clienteles can access bibliographic records of the library through Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) terminals.
This system will replace the manual registration procedure of writing down the clientele information every time they visit the library. The information of the clientele will automatically appear upon swiping their bar-coded library cards in the computer terminal when they come in or out of the library. This module also helps the librarian determine how many clienteles visited and left and who are still in the library. At present, the clientele barcodes are being disseminated to the students.
The Library automation will succeed through the work performed by hardware, software, and the people concerned. To date the total record of reference materials are 2,765 titles and 3,567 volumes. An estimated 80 percent of the students and faculty members’ data are now available at the ASU new library system.
The KOICA assisted project is projected to be operational on the 2nd half of 2007. /MP
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