e-Granthalaya

A Digital Agenda For Library Automation and Networking is an Integrated Library Management Software from National Informatics Centre,(NIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. The software has been developed by a team of experts from software as well as Library and Information Science discipline and is useful for automation of in-house activities of libraries and to provide various online member services. The software provides built-in Web OPAC interface to publish the library catalog over Internet and is UNICODE Compliant thus, supports data entry in local languages. Latest version of e-Granthalaya i.e. Ver.4.0 is a 'Cloud Ready Application' and provides a Web-based data entry solution in enterprise mode with a centralized database for cluster of libraries. e-Granthalaya 4.0 uses PostgreSQL - an Open Source DBMS as back-end database solution and is hosted at NIC National Cloud (Meghraj) for Government Libraries as per the NIC Distribution Policy.

e-Granthalaya was started as an in-house project at 'Karnataka State Centre of NIC, Bangalore' and first version of the software was designed for the Public Libraries in the State. Later, NIC HQs 'Library and Information Services Division' took over the designing of the software where library professionals were involved in the designing process and, thus, improved the software with enhanced user interface and simplify the work-flow of library functions so that it can suit to all kinds of libraries. Following table shows the release of various versions of the software:

Technology/Platform used Version Year DBMS Edition
Visual Basic 6/ASP/HTML 1.0 2003 MS SQL Server 7 Public Library Edition
Visual Basic 6/ASP/HTML 2.0 2005 MS SQL Server 2000 Government Libraries Edition
VB.NET/ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 2007 MS SQL Server 2005 Network Edition