A Study on Contribution from Indian Universities towards Union Catalogue of IndCat INFLIBNET Centre
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2022-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
One of the major factors to determine the knowledge of a nation is to understand the collection of
books she holds. This study elucidates the contribution of Indian Universities towards the Union
Catalogue IndCat. Indeed, 209 Indian Universities participated and 1,36,16,889 book records
were submitted to IndCat server for retrieval of information for the public as on 18th June 2022. The
number of universities and book records were rapidly growing in numbers as the automation of
libraries is achieved. Hence, this study also includes the details about the type of Library Automation
Software (LMS) used by universities for a better understanding regarding the development of libraries
in technology. Further, this review provides zone-wise distribution of book records and LMS
implementation in the respective university libraries. Thus, this study provides a summary about
union catalogue of books submitted by participated Indian Universities and type of library software
used by the universities towards automation of library and utilization of open source software
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13th International CALIBER-2022, BHU, Varanasi, UP, 17-19 November 2022
Keywords
Union Catalogue, IndCat, Library Management Software, INFLIBNET, Indian Universities