CDS/ ISIS ( Computerised Documentation System/ Integrated Set for Information
System) developed by UNESCO is the most popular library software in the world .
CDS/ISIS is a very user friendly package and can be used by anyone after a day's
familiarisation with the program. The software which is worth lakhs of rupees is
supplied free of cost by Unesco to any educational institution prepared to bear
a nominal cost to wards copying the documentation and the program. Hence our
rural libraries, school libraries and college libraries can take the benefit of
this valuable package if the staff gets familiarised with this program. CDS/ISIS
can also be used in training pogrammes for rural libraries as well as in various
other library science courses. As lakhs and lakhs of libraries all over the
world are presently using CDS/ISIS for their library database management, a
familiarisation of this package can help library professionals to improve their
efficiency; as well as library users to help themselves in retrieving their
information from automated libraries. CDS/ISIS is considered as the best package
for introducing computer and library automation to librarians. he aim of this
bookies to provide, those librarians, who have no earlier exposure to computer
systems and library software; the basic knowledge required to set up CDS/ISIS
and to start it for information management and retrieval in their libraries.
Basics of CDS/ISIS for DOS is intended as a simple guide to library software for
the village, school and college librarians interested in automating the systems,
to the students who wish to learn library softwares to those who can conduct
training programmes for workers o community information centers and the
scientists and research students who wish to organise their data and documents
in a helpful manner using computers; this book can give required basic lessons.