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The purpose of this paper is to focus on the technical know‐how required for digitisation of manuscripts. It aims to discuss the digitisation process of manuscripts adopted in the Jayakar Library, University of Pune in India and also to evaluate the digitisation software used in this project.

The paper explains different steps of the digitisation process. It also explains the process for creating metadata fields for easy retrieval of manuscripts and evaluates the digitisation software.

Digitisation of manuscripts is a difficult process because of the fragility and discolouration (yellowishness) of manuscripts. Creation of metadata and especially subject headings for manuscripts is difficult and time consuming. QuickScan software is good for image capturing and DSpace is good for providing access to digital contents.

The project details and use of different software in this project may be useful for others carrying out digitisation projects.

This paper aims to describe and evaluate JCCC@UGC‐INFONET and the document supply service at the University of Pune.

The approach takes the form of a brief overview of JCCC@UGC‐INFONET and the document supply service provided by the University library. Problems encountered while using the JCCC@UGC‐INFONET user interface and the administrative interface in providing ILL service are identified and some recommendations made.

The document supply service provided by Pune University library is satisfactory but the overall objective of INFLIBNET for starting this service is far from satisfactory. The JCCC@UGC‐INFONET database and software have some very good features but also some deficiencies that need to be rectified.

The paper provides details of the new service initiated by INFLIBNET and also evaluates the JCCC software from both the user's and the administrative point‐of‐view. These inputs will be useful for the development and improvement of both the service and the software.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of a radio frequency identification (RFID) system in Pune University Library.

The paper provides a brief overview of background of the project, barriers faced and changes that have been experienced after the implementation of the technology.

At the initial stage the library is facing problems with regard to the lack of availability of technology experts in the library for the RFID system and also for the software. Later on the library applied some solutions and tried to minimise the problems and now it has proved to be a boon for the library.

The paper provides insight for other academic libraries wishing to implement an RFID system.

The purpose of this paper is to first review the implementation of automatic identification and data capture) technologies in library/information science, focusing on barcode technology, radio frequency identification (RFID) and near field communication (NFC). This paper then presents S-Library, a new android-based application, to enable users to perform a wide range of information science-related transactions, such as borrowing, searching, returning and viewing transaction records.

This paper presents the design process and the database and software components. For analysis, the authors used application testing, and also usability testing, with a questionnaire distributed to 343 users.

The implementation of NFC technology means that S-Library has a number of technical advantages over other approaches. It was also shown with user acceptance testing that there was a high degree of user satisfaction with S-Library.

Although the findings combine technical assessment and usability testing and are extremely positive, further user evaluation could be performed. In addition, S-Library does not currently read existing RFID tags, which would improve the application further.

The system proposed here shows that S-Library is a feasible approach taken to improve the library transaction experience and that it can replace and improve upon older technologies.

This paper provides a first successful demonstration of a functioning and tested android and NFC-based library transaction system and shows that this approach generates a high degree of user reliability.