IJALIS

ISSN: 2360-7858

 International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science
 

Vol. 8(1), pp. 17–21, January, 2020. 

ISSN: 2360-7858

DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2020.010

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Eritrea is the small country in Spine of East-Africa in which nine colleges serving under the Institutions of. Higher Education (IHE), Eritrea.  Some of the colleges haven’t well-equipped library facilities omitted EIT this institute only Implemented library automation with RFID technologies through Open Source Software (KOHA).  However, not at all library is self-sufficient and they are growing organism.  The main impartial of the academic library is to deliver the right of entry to the important information in a little potential period.  In the era of the material blast, single horizontal the information converts the same expensive and additional horizontal, the rising difficulties of the consumers and the weakening stages of economics type’s actual essential condition to the academic libraries.  Thoughtful this worldwide believed, it is right important to the reason for automation of the academic libraries in the State of Eritrea. The article notices that nobody of the 8 academic libraries is automated. The libraries variety use of librarians with related exercise in computer applications fixed with in-house and supported seminars and workshops. The study commends that parental organizations must give importance to the improvement of library automation and digital library enlargement through open-source software-based library automation systems.

Keywords: Library Automation, ICT, Digital Library, Open Source Software, OPAC and Eritrea.

Cite This Article As:  Sivanakalai, S (2020). Awareness of Library Automation among the Professionals in Academic Libraries at State of Eritrea. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 8(1): 17-21