National Workshop on Library Automation Software e-Granthalaya on 30th and 31st July 2016.

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from Asian School of Business Management..!

It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that The Chanakya Central Library of Asian School of Business Management (ASBM), Bhubaneswar, Odisha is going to organize a National Workshop on Library Automation Software e-Granthalaya on 30^th and 31^st July 2016.

With an objective to give practical hands on training on e-Granthalaya, this workshop is specially designed for Library Professionals, LIS Academicians, Information Managers and LIS students to gain knowledge on  all the library administration along with library housekeeping works for smoothly running of a library in a digital environment through this most versatile and user friendly automation software.

It gives me immense pleasure to put before you that Asian School of Business Management, the premier management institute in India, has been consistently growing in strength and stature by taking up initiatives which promotes its vision, mission, and objectives. The vision of this institute with a sense of purpose and direction has made us a front runner among the new generation B-Schools in India.

E-Granthalaya is a library automation software from National Informatics Centre, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. The software has been designed by a team of experts from software as well as Library and Information Science discipline. Using this software the libraries can automate in-house activities as well as user services. The software can be implemented either in stand-alone or in client-server mode where database and WebOPAC are installed on the server PC while the data entry program is installed on client PCs. The software provides LAN/Web based data entry solutions for a cluster of libraries where a centralized/Common database can be created with Union Catalog output. The software provides Web OPAC interface to publish the library catalog over Internet/Intranet. The software runs on Windows platform Only, UNICODE Compliant thus, supports data entry in local language.

The participating members of this workshop can be immensely benefited by learning and using this software to best of their advantage.

Anticipating best of the active presence of your Library Professionals in the greater academic interest of your esteemed institute for fulfilling all the need of Library Automation in the present era.

With best regards,

Niharbala Nayak, Organizing Secretary

Librarian, Chanakya Central Library

Asian School of Business Management (ASBM), Bhubaneswar

Ph: 0674-2374832/33

E-mail: librarian@asbm.ac.in,  library@asbm.ac.in

Sabita Sahu, Asst Librarian, Knowledge and Information Services Unit, Chanakya Central Library, Asian School of Business Management, Bhubaneswar. library@asbm.ac.in ; www.asbm.ac.in