Eureka! Institutional Repository

This thesis was carried out as part of the completion of the cycle of studies of the Department of Library Science, Archival and Information Studies of the International Hellenic University (IHU). Its purpose is to organize and process the material of the Municipal Library of Chalastra “Dimitrios Kyriakou Chantes”. The material that had processed is part of the main collection of the library. More specifically, it was held classification, thematic indexing and then descriptive cataloging of the documents in Koha automated library management system with references to the characteristics of the same system. They are presented and explained detailing through examples the fields of the system that were used to add information of the books to the respective fields. The aim of the project is for the users of the library to be able to locate the material that interests them, easily and quickly through the catalog. Finally, the conclusions and suggestions for improving the operation of the library are presented.