Enhancing Full text Search Capability in Library Automation Package: A Case Study with Koha and Greenstone Digital Library Software

There are many library automation packages available as open source software. Though they provide advanced features of searching and retrieving of bibliographic records, none of them facilitate full text indexing and searching. Most of the available open source digital library software facilitate indexing and searching of full text documents in different formats. An effort is made here to enable full text search feature in a widely used open source library automation package viz., Koha, by integrating it with an open source digital library software viz., Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL), by making use of Search and Retrieval by URL (SRU) feature available in both Koha and GSDL.