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2.1. Union Catalogue of Books

Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS)

Vaishali Shah, Scientist B (LS)
Miteshkumar Pandya, Scientist B (LS)
Dharmesh Shah, STA (CS)

The Union Catalogue of Book Database covers bibliographic records of books available in the libraries of
universities in India. The book database contains 83 lakhs unique records of books available in 173
universities/institutes in various disciplines. The book database contains textbooks, reference books,
conference, proceedings, monographs, etc. The book database can be searched by different
parameters i.e. title, author, ISBN, subject, publisher, Place, etc. Figure 2 depicts Search Interface for

Books.

Fig. 2: Search Interface for Books

2.1.1. Process for Building lndCat

Process of building IndCat commences with creation of bibliographic records in participating university
libraries and their receipt at the INFLIBNET Centre. Steps involved in building of IndCat database is as
follows:

Step 1. INFLIBNET Centre receives bibliographic records from Indian universities in different formats,

such as MS-Excel, MS-Access, Dbase / Foxpro, CDS/ISIS, WIN ISIS, MS-SQL Backup, CCF, MARC, LibSys,
SOUL 2.0, etc.

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