Library Preservation and Automation

Its objective is to ensure that information survives in a usable form for as long as it is wanted. This implies the survival for the same period of time of the physical medium which contains that information, whether it is a manuscript, a printed book, a videotape or a floppy disk. The automation of library operations can very readily be regarded as a way of escape from the pressing problems of everyday life in a library, ordering and cataloguing books, answering awkward reference questions, tracing lost books. This book gives valuable information on the topics of library preservation and automation. It will be highly informative to professionals, students, scholars, academicians in the fields of library and information science.