Week 5

        Salam Everyone.. this was my fifth week, on 17th of February, being participated in ICT course in AIU. After the fourth week, on which I was doing my essay about the Information System in the library, I pursued, for this week, being instructed by lecturer about the types of IS and classified the detail components. Basically, we started from the categories of IS which are TPS (Transaction Processing System), MIS (Management Information System), DSS (Decision Support System), ESS (Expert Support System), ESS (Executive Support System), and Others. My lecturer went through to the main point of this lesson and elaborated all the concepts included in the updating information. As IS is the main point and the main coordinator of one particular organization used to run the system, there are two sub-coordinators which are Operations Support Systems and Management Support System.
     
       Besides learning these valuable things, my lecturer clarified and distinguished the functions of each system; additionally, he also opened up every component mentioned above to the details so that I could instantly catch up and understand the concepts of the lesson.
   
      After being so sensitive and clear about the procedures from the lesson, all the students were asked to form a group of three in order to answer the questions which would be given. Being one of the groups working and searching so hard on the second floor of the library, we, three people, were given three questions to be conducted. The first question was about How many kinds of Information System being used in AIU library?, the second one was What are the functions of Information System?, and the last one was required to give examples of IS in the library. It was like a tough task for me and my friends to do because we really didn't exactly know the IS in our library; moreover, we also didn't know clearly about how the systems worked. Nevertheless, we went to see Mr. Azhar to ask him to elaborate and clarify the systems being used in the library. The wonders and curiousness were eliminated when we got such a detail information about the materials of the system. First of all, our library is using VTLS which was the full-function library management, providing management of circulation, cataloging, serials, acquisitions, course reserves and more.

    VTLS has got various types of components; additionally, among those components and the most specific system which is being used in the library is ILS which contains Acquisition, Cataloging, Holdings, OPAC, Circulation, and Serial. These main points are very crucial to run the system processes in our library. Moreover, the services provided by our library make everyone convenient to consume and apply the self-learning.