In the modern techno-savvy era, exponential growth in knowledge increased load on libraries. To cope up with the dwindling budget and vendors‟ closed-access attitude in dealing with proprietary software made libraries to look for open...
moreIn the modern techno-savvy era, exponential growth in knowledge increased load on libraries. To cope up with the dwindling budget and vendors‟ closed-access attitude in dealing with proprietary software made libraries to look for open source software as an alternative. Library automation is the general term for information and communications technologies that are used to replace manual systems in the library. There are many library automation packages available as open source software. Though they provide advanced modules like acquisition, cataloguing, circulation, Administration, OPAC etc, In this paper we are considering a Comparative study of ABCD, Koha and Newgenlib open sources Integrated library management software and also this paper will be focuses on the general and specific features of three of the most popular open source software