Unit 2 - Office Tools | IGNOU CLIS BLII - 014 I

Certificate Programme in Library and Information Science (CLIS)
The CLIS Programme comprises four courses . The courses are as under:
BLI-011: Libraries: An Introduction
BLII-012: Document Processing and Organisation
BLII-013: Information Sources and Services
BLII-014: ICT in Libraries

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While we all recognise that Microsoft Office is indeed an industry standard in office tools such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database management and desktop publishing, however it is important to note that office tools are also available as free and open source software such as Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, NeoOffice, GoogleDocs and KOffice. Choosing free software over proprietary software doesn’t
mean you will compromise on features and support. Today’s open source office tools are as feature-rich as Microsoft tools. They also provide ample online documentation and large communities of users and developers. These office tools are generally referred to as office suite, productivity suite, applications tools because they come as a collection of applications mainly consisting of word processor, spreadsheet and presentation
bundled together and quite often sharing a common user interface. Free and open source office tools have become viable alternatives to Microsoft Office. In this Unit you will be introduced to the LibreOffice applications Writer, Calc and Impress. This Unit is developed as a summary of ‘Getting Started Guide 4.0’ - the official documentation issued by The Document Foundation, the body responsible for developing and launching LibreOffice suite of productivity tools and hence much of the content in this Unit is a copy of ‘Getting Started Guide 4.0’. (The work is under Creative Commons Attribution License).

The LibreOffice office application suite has become very popular worldwide for easy availability and convenience in use. Nowadays, the library personnel and library users also have become familiar with these excellent set of office tools. Writer is frequently used as a word processor and text editor, where you can type and save any textual document. Calc is frequently used as a spreadsheet application for easy calculations,
bookkeeping and preparing charts. Impress is popularly used as a presentation application for preparing and presenting facts and figures in a presentation. In this Unit you were introduced to these tools and the features these tools offer for running and managing various library applications.

LibreOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org – is a freely available suite of office applications that you can download and install for free without any copyright infringement.

The Certificate Programme in Library and Information Science (CLIS) is being launched with an objective to cater to the staffing needs of rural libraries as well as for imparting basic skills and training in library management. Since most rural libraries are being managed by untrained persons, it will provide them an opportunity to take up basic training in library and information science profession. Trained human resources are required to occupy various lower positions in libraries, documentation centres and information centres/institutions in the country. For instance, professionally trained human resource at different levels is necessary to manage libraries in schools, colleges, universities, government departments, commercial and industrial establishments, scientific research institutions, R&D establishments, public libraries, etc., set up by central, state governments, local and corporate bodies. To meet the above requirement, IGNOU initiated the CLIS Programme in distance education mode. In this mode, education is imparted through different media, such as printed lessons, audio/ video programmes, counselling, tele counselling, interactive radio counselling sessions and face- -to-face interactions with the counsellors in the study centres. This approach provides certain degree of flexibility and obviously helps in self-learning process. Modern communication technologies are utilised for imparting educational inputs to students in a relaxed and convenient manner, while counselling at study centres intended to provide the students the opportunity of periodic face-to-face interaction with the tutors.