Library Automation and Digital Library Consulting Services

An organisation’s knowledge assets are mostly found in the various collections – be it the traditional books and reports on the shelf, or your digital assets (files, reports, data sets, worksheets, photographs) sitting on file servers, or on the hard disks on the desktop computers. If lost, these valuable assets may not be replaceable.

Librarians and collection managers have their hands full with the daily operations as well as meeting the knowledge needs of the organization and/or its clients.

Our consultants can help you navigate the daunting tasks when choosing a new automation system or replacing an existing system.  Zinfinity Consulting can assist you with a customised consulting service which can include:

• Records Management and its automation needs
• software requirement analysis
• writing specifications for your automation project
• providing consultancy services in selecting an automation system
• providing expertise in implementation of system
• providing training on metadata standards
• providing training on managing digital or traditional libraries

Deep dive consultancy elements include:

• Change management on processes after automation
• Setting software parameters
• Selecting meaningful facets for Social OPACs
• Data migration/conversion
• Data cleanup
• Data de-duping
• Updating records to RDA

About our consultants

We have a network of consultants who are experienced professionals, practitioners, and lecturers in libraries and collection management. Our expertise includes:

• Cataloguing
• Authority Control
• Configuring software parameters
• MARC and other Metadata standards
• Computer hardware configuration
• Standards and protocols
• Data conversion
• Implementation of library automation software

Service Code: GP-LRC01

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