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The INFLIBNET Centre has SOUL software developed for the automation and management of the
Indian academic libraries, which has presence across the country in around 1500 libraries. INFLIBNET
Centre being a nodal agency for Indian universities and keeping in view the requirement of the
modernization of the their libraries with ICT facilities, Centre has developed this software and made
available to the libraries in the nominal cost. With the development of the technology and the
requirement changes of the library with the technology, it was due for the INFLIBNET Centre to make
some necessary changes with the SOUL software. This paper introduces the new catalogue module
of the SOUL software with the very new features such as MARC21, Unicode and MARCXML etc
abreast with the new applications of the ICT. The Centre happily announces the new name of the
SOUL software from the “Software for University Libraries” to the “Software for Library Automation
and Management”. |
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