History

The first libraries were only partly libraries, being composed for the most part of unpublished records, which are usually viewed as archives, not libraries. Archaeological findings from the ancient city-states of Sumer have revealed temple rooms full of clay tablets in cuneiform script. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on papyrus of Ancient Egypt.

Private or personal libraries made up of non-fiction and fiction books (as opposed to the state or institutional records kept in archives) first appeared in classical Greece. The first ones appeared some time near the 5th century BC. The celebrated book collectors of Hellenistic Antiquity were listed in the late second century in Deipnosophistae:

Handling large collections and serving a huge clientele makes Library management a complex issue. To carry out various operations in a lirary effectively, library automation is essential. Amazibng developements in the sphere of communication technology have radically redefined acquisition, processing, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. Utilizing all these advantageous factors VOLKS have developed a windows-based Library Management software-LiBMAS