Enhancing knowledge innovation culture of libraries through implementing union catalogues

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2009

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National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

The project worked to develop a common framework and a prototype union catalogue that provides for the national repository of bibliographical records in libraries in India. It also aimed towards prototyping a web-based search engine to locate the content held in electronic formats, allowing for full-text search in multiple languages of digital resources held in thousands of libraries. A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media, including book format, microform, cards and more recently, networked electronic databases.

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LIBRARIES, CATALOGUES, FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE, RESEARCH RESULTS, INDIA, DATABASES, DIGITIZATION, KNOWLEDGE SHARING, AUTOMATION, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, SOUTH ASIA

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