I would like suggest "Data Mirroring with RAID" option ............present we are using in IIT Hyderabad Library(IITHLibrary). Data mirroring can be implemented locally or different location or cloud based eg. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). I agree with Dr P Vyasamoorthy. Best Regards, C.Mallikarjuna * * **************************************************************** **************************************************************** P* **Please consider the environment before printing this email.* * *

Message: 5 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:28:10 +0530 From: M KOTESWARA RAO To: Tariq Ahmad Shah , lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Clarification Sought Message-ID: <7660e5616f02.50328fca@uohyd.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Dear Mr. Shah,

In my opinion all the old manual charging systems were excellent. Because of library automation these methods have been discarded and replaced with barcode /RFID system for simplicity, ease of operation and better control and reporting. However, maintaining circulation records in ELECTRONIC ONLY form is always dangerous since there is no manual record to verify in case of hard disk /system crash. This has happened in one of the top academic library in the country where thousands of books issued were lost and could not be called-back?. It is always advisable to have a manual record in addition to the electronic one, because our library users can deny if we cannot show the proof of borrowing.? We may discard the physical card catalogue cabinet but you need to think twice before you eliminate the book card/member record in a fully automated library.? ? ?

Dr. M. Koteswara Rao Retd. Librarian, Univ of Hyderabad

On 20-08-12, Tariq Ahmad Shah wrote:

...

Dear Sir In the June 2012, edition of UGC Net one of the questions was related to the Browne Charging System (Paper III, Q. 49), wherein it was asserted and even validated by the UGC furnished key that Browne Charging System is simple and less time consuming. If it would had been simple and time efficient why there was need to develop other manual methods - Ranganathan ticket system, Newark and Detroit methods etc. Besides, how could we justify the statement when these manual methods are not in vogue and are replaced by library automation packages? Even we are witnessing the phasing out of Barcode circulation with RFID enabled circulation. Your kind advice/comments is/are requested in this matter

With Regards Tariq Ahmad Shah Research Scholar DLIS, University of Kashmir

-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

_______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.