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4. SOUL 2.0 (http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/soul/)

Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS)

Divyakant Vaghela, Scientist B (CS)
Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS)

Bhargavi Kadiya, Project Officer (CS)

Nrutik Prajapati, Project Officer (CS)

The SOUL 2.0 (Software for University Libraries) is state-of-the-art integrated library management
software designed and developed by the INFLIBNET Centre based on requirements of colleges,
universities and other academic libraries. It is user-friendly software developed to work under client-
server environment. The software is compliant to international standards for bibliographic formats and

circulation protocols. After a comprehensive study, discussions and deliberations with the senior
professionals of the country, the software was designed to automate all house-keeping operations in a
library. The software is suitable for the academic libraries as well as for all kinds of other libraries. SOUL
2.0 is compliant to international standards such as MARC 21 for bibliographic format, Unicode based
Universal Character Sets for multilingual bibliographic records and NCIP 2.0 and SIP 2 based protocols
for RFID, electronic surveillance and control.

The SOUL 2.0 was released in January 2009 and was well received by the academic libraries in India.
During the year under report, several minor enhancements made in reporting and other functionalities.
New updates of the software are available through the SOUL 2.0 website at no additional cost to
existing users. As on 31 March, 2017, the software was supplied to 3,352 institutions across the country.
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SOUL 2.0 was adopted by the Directorate of Libraries for all their public libraries as well as by the

Department of Technical Education, Government of Gujarat. State Governments of Madhya Pradesh,
Haryana and Andhra Pradesh have also adopted SOUL 2.0 software for automating their public and
academic libraries.

Fig. 13: Website for SOUL 2.0

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