Into the Information Age

Written by present and past members of the library staff at the Copperbelt University, Zambia, this book records and reflects their experiences of automating library services, from 1993 to 1999. Each chapter examines and evaluates stages in the computerization programme: initial strategies; donor support; system design and implementation; creating, maintaining and updating the database; automating the circulation system and stocktaking; introduction of electronic information services. The final chapter assesses the whole process from hindsight and looks at future needs.

Publication and ordering details

Published jointly by INASP and the Standing Conference of African National and University Libraries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (SCANUL-ECS) c/o The Library, University of the North, Private Bag X1112, Sovenga 0727, South Africa.
Distributed free to members of SCANUL-ECS
136pp, 205x145mm
ISBN 1 902928 10 5
£12.00
Publication date: 2002
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A limited number of complimentary copies of this publication (in print) are available to libraries in developing and emerging countries. To request a free copy, please email inasp@inasp.info