A Study of the Impact of Library Automation on the Services of Libraries of Engineering Colleges in India with Special Reference to Bhopal(Madhya Pradesh)

There are several reasons for automating the library activities especially computerizing library activities. On account of Informationaknowledge explosion it has become essential for librarians to provide a master key to this repository of knowledge in the service, the librarian started mechanizing activities of libraries and research institution through various gadget. The aim of library is to provide access to proper information explosion, due to growing demands of the user and shrinking of financial resources, library cannot maintain all the reading materials on demand. With the library automation, which requires planning, designing and implementation the speed, accuracy and effectiveness of library operations can be improved. In this research paper effectiveness of library automation is being tested and result shows that library automation proves to be tremendous advantageous for the improvement of different services of library.