1. ODINCINDIO Marine Information Management Training Course 13-24 February 2006 Integrated Library Management Software (ILMS) Murari P Tapaswi National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India murari@nio.org murari@nio.org

2. ODINCINDIO Info Mgmt Trg Course Feb 2006 What for and what is it? Relieves manpower from clerical (routine) work for intellectual tasks 4 main ‘housekeeping’ operations –Acquisitions –Cataloguing –Serials control –Circulation

3. ODINCINDIO Info Mgmt Trg Course Feb 2006 ILMS: Acquisitions – Basic principles Receive recommendation Budget control Document ordering /reordering Reminders Receiving Accessioning (?) Payment

4. ODINCINDIO Info Mgmt Trg Course Feb 2006 ILMS: Catalogue – Things to understand Acquire (import/export) data or type it out (data entry) Cataloguing rules and formats: AACR; MARC Document type, Bibliographic level OPAC Searching & retrieving information

5. ODINCINDIO Info Mgmt Trg Course Feb 2006 ILMS: Serials control – Basic principles Receiving recommendations Subscription payment Establishing check-in system Reminders Binding Cataloguing

6. ODINCINDIO Info Mgmt Trg Course Feb 2006 ILMS: Circulation – Basic principles User profiles Links to the catalogue Lending/ receiving Reminder work Statistics

7. ODINCINDIO Info Mgmt Trg Course Feb 2006 An integrated system MonographsSerials Catalogue of documents User profiles OPAC Output Circulation

8. ODINCINDIO Info Mgmt Trg Course Feb 2006 ? If you get new ILMS software for your library how would you start using it?