SLIMS: An Open Source Library Managem

Abstract

Library Management System is most essential in any academic institution, and it helps in library management, Circulation of library documents, maintenance of serials control, stock verification, report generation and other facilities for libraries. The user community to get the status of books, bibliographical details, new arrivals, book reservation, catalogue search and other facilities in single place. This also helps today in the competitive market many commercial software are available with high degree of cost to manage library operations. But many institutions and its libraries cannot afford the high cost of using commercial products. Therefore the alternative solutions is open source software hence this paper discuss about the open source library management system called SLIMS and it’s features, installation, modules, functions and service