The open sources software and Its Impact for libraries in digital environmental

Information and communications technology ( ICT) has played a major role in libraries. Libraries have now been completely dependent on providing new services to its users based on ICT. Present days the open source major role and impact in a academic libraries. To manage vast amount of digital information, libraries need some computer applications which takes care of their requirements. These applications are generally developed by commercial vendors or are available under open source license terms and conditions. In the present paper, an overview of range of open source initiative library services. Library professionals can effectively use these open sources initiative to provide innovative services to their users and without involvement of any of large budget