Sunday, November 1, 2009

What are the Benefits Offered by Library Automation Software?

Have you already heard something about library automation software, but still not sure whether personally you need it or not? Well, let’s try to find out about the benefits which are provided by library automation software, say All My Books, one of the best book collectors of its kind.

First of all, it’s easiness of adding new books to your library! A book card includes many fields for all sorts of information about a book: title, author, genre, translator, year of publishing, publisher and a synopsis. All these things may look frightening if you need to fill them in manually, but library automation software changes everything! All one has to do manually is to type in the title of the book. Various online databases are at your disposal at once – Powels.com, Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com. Ozon.ru, Amazon.de, Amazon.ca and many others, the list of databases available being constantly updated, many of which can be used through third-party plug-ins.

Secondly, its extremely powerful export and import functions add to its popularity a lot. You see, before getting to know about library automation software, many users kept their databases in other programs, e.g. Microsoft Excel or Access. So, with All My Books you’ll never lose any information you have got – the program will accurately import info about all the books, no efforts of yours will be wasted.

Then, to print the list of your books, so that you could it at hand all the time, or if you want to print the whole list and include all the information about books you personally need, or if you want to share your collection with friends, you can use extremely useful export functions of library automation software, various templates, including the ones editable to your taste, are at your service. You may even upload your collection to your website or mobile device and every time you go to a book shop, you are sure to know whether you’ve got this or that book. Very convenient indeed!

At last, if you are a real book worm, you must enjoy having at hand information not only about the book itself, but all relevant data. All My Books has foreseen this wish of yours and included a name directory in the program. It means you are able to add all possible information about authors and even have author’s picture!

Visual appeal of this library automation software is worth mentioning separately. The interface is really excellent, really stylish, as many users say. Virtual bookshelf mode, different variants being possible, several templates for displaying full info about a book, opportunity to add not only covers, but illustrations as well – all these features do make the program special, prodigious, capable of satisfying all your needs! However, no matter how exciting other users are about this library automation software, no one but you can decide for yourself whether you need it or not. So, download your own version of All My Books and all your problems with book collecting will disappear as vapor!