STATUS AND PROBLEMS OF LIBRARY AUTOMATION IN GOVT. FIRST GRADE COLLEGES OF HASSAN DISTRICT, KARNATAKA: A STUDY

The growth and development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing vital role in the field of library and information science and library automation in particular. The present paper is showing the status and problems of library automation in government first grade colleges in Hassan district. The study was clearly presents only 23% of Libraries are automated and main problems for library automation are inadequate staff, lack of infrastructure, insufficient funds and lack of training to library staff. This study also gives a status view of the software packages used by libraries and modules of library automation are using. It is evident from the study out of 17 libraries 14 (82.35%) libraries are using e-granthalaya, in this some of libraries are partially completed and some of are in initial stage. Further about 3 (17.65%) colleges are using Easy Lib Software.