Open source software are those which permit execution, copy, read, distribution and improvement of the software without any restrictions. Library Management Software (LMS), is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed. Commercial library management software are very expensive. Therefore, open source library management system can be appropriate alternatives for automatic library systems. This paper discusses features of open source library management software, criteria of selection of best open source library management software, their, advantages and limitations. Open source library management software is a solution to reduce that cost. The paper describes in brief about the feature of some of the open source library management software like Koha, NewGenlib, Evergreen, SENAYAN, ABCD, and BiblioteQ.

This thesis deals with usage of data mining on data of a library. It specializes in data of users and their behavior registered by library management system Clavius. For this purpose the data of University Library of Silesian University in Opava were used. Firstly the data mining therm is explained and it's use in libraries is thoroughly described. Secondly the ways of usage of the Clavius data are discussed then the text follows data mining usage for management of the library in particular. Finally the results of data mining concerning user's behavior is described in the rear of this thesis. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)