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Abstract:
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In the field of library and information science, importance of cataloguing, classification,
abstracting and indexing standards play a major role to represent the appropriate information
of any document for patron’s use. In beginning, these standards were used to the documents
in the print formats like shelf list, catalogue card etc. Gradually, after the invention of the
computer technology, representation of information in print format has changed into the
electronic format. There with the development of technology, due to flood of information and
variations in the representation of the information, were forced the profession to develop
different bibliographic standards; till date almost more than 30 bibliographic standards
has emerged. Thus, every country is following their own bibliographic standards for
representing the print documents into the electronic format. Same way, India is also working
in creating the bibliographic databases of the resources available in different academic
libraries of the country. INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Centre, UGC,
Ahmedabad has embarked upon this issue and working in war footing level to achieve the
goal. The authors describe the bibliographic standards being used for creating databases
by Indian Academic libraries under INFLIBNET umbrella. |