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Bibliographic records of books for the following six universities were updated in the IndCat as given in
Table 2:

Sl.No. University Name Updated
Records

1 University of Kalyani, Kalyani 67,375
2 Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur 89,923

3 Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 1,60,195

4 Kuvempu University, Shimoga 66,932
5 Shreemati Nathibai Damodar University, Mumbai 1,09,685

6 Tripura University, Agartala 4,010
Total Updated Records 4,98,120

Table 2: Updated Bibliographic Records of Six Universities for Union Database (IndCat)

Table 3 given below provides holding records added to the Union Database of Books during the period

under report:

Sl. Details No. of Records added
No. During the year 2016-2017

1 Unique Records 2, 49,837
2 Holding Records 8,109

Table 3: Bibliographic Records Authenticated and Merged in Union Database (IndCat)

2.1.4. Growth of Union Catalogue of Books

Building and maintaining a union catalogue is an ongoing activity involving collaboration of all
participating libraries. The Union Catalogue of Books is essentially an outcome of financial and logistic
support that was extended to the participating universities by the Centre for creating bibliographic
records of their library collections. With initial financial incentives backed-up with logistic support in
terms of training on integrated library management software including SOUL, the union Catalogue of
Books has witnessed a rapid growth. The union catalogue of books has grown from 6.5 lakh records in

1999 to 139 lakh records in 2017 as depicted in Table 4 and Figure 5 given below:

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