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Synopsis Libraries, whether digital or concrete, are contemporarily subject to such information and communication technologies that are continually evolving making techniques associated with the acquisition, organization for access, and physical processing and maintenance of collections of library materials highly complex, yet fascinating at the same time. The present book has been intended as a text which gives an overview of the current operations and service systems that are increasingly taking over the way libraries function. The emphasis is on delineating not just database management systems for the readers, but to undertake on incisive analysis of the ways in which such technologies portend change for library systems, and the challenges, improvements and disadvantages they represent.