LMS Features Selection
On this article you will learn LMS Features Selection .Managing a library are often very complex work, and it’s also really important to the general function of a faculty. This lesson discusses a number of the important software which will be helpful in library management. Software are often really expensive, so Sheila knows she wants to find out the maximum amount as possible about what’s available and what makes some choices better than others. She learns about many features that accompany software marketed to librarians. These include:
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- Acquisition management: helping a library keep track of latest print and digital additions to the collection
- Barcode scanning: simply having the ability to see items in and out
- Barcoding: the capacity to feature a barcode to a replacement or damaged acquisition
- Catalog management: keeping track digitally of what’s available within the collection or, when interlibrary loan has relevancy, within the broader available system
- Circulation management: tracking who has what and when items are due
- Fee collection: keeping track of fines owed to the library
- OPAC: access to a web public access catalogue of varied public libraries
- Patron management: keeping track of data about patrons and their records
- Periodicals management: managing journals and magazines available digitally in print
- Reserve shelf management: for libraries that allow teachers to stay items on reserve
- Search functions: allows patrons and librarians to finish a catalog search on various levels
- Self check-in/check-out: allowing patrons to see their own items in and out
- Serials management: keeping track of the serials within the library.
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Now that you simply understand these features, you’ll see that a number of them are relevant to your library, while others aren’t. As an example, you are do not have a reserve shelf, so trying to find software with reserve shelf management capacities won’t be a priority for you.