Synopsis Automation in Libraries has been divided into two sections. Section A deals with the topics like libraries, manpower and automation, national automation of libraries, national serial data system, national bibliographic data base in MARC, information transfer etc. In section B several useful chapters have been added, the information of which is scantily available like history of microform activity, organization of microforms in the library, microform as library resources, advances and goals in micro photograph, policy questions of photo duplications and many more interesting chapters have been included. The editor has very judiciously collected and compiled these articles from books and journals. Full attention has been paid to modify, add more informations to make these articles uptodate. Each topic is comprehensively dealt with. The language of all these articles is very simple and lucid. The book will prove highly useful and informative for the teachers and advanced students of library science besides the librarians and other readers.