The financial crunch in the government funded academic libraries is making them face a recession in
progress. Library automation is rejuvenating the academic environment. The INFLIBNET programme
is infusing new life into the academic libraries. This study made on university libraries situated at
Tirupati (A.P.) covers the present state of automation in different libraries. Hardware, software,
manpower facilities were studied through a survey. The study also extended to understand specific
problems of the university libraries in automation..