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    Creation of Union Databases at INFLIBNET
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2004)
    With the changing environment of librarianship, the focus on access to information, rather than ownership, library professionals have manifold responsibilities. Shrinking local resources and growth of resource sharing and document delivery through network environment, union catalogue in one form or another is important features in today’s library world. INFLIBNET Centre has taken the initiative of building union catalogue of academic libraries in India, which contains bibliographic description of holding information for books, serials and theses in all subjects areas held in university libraries in India. INFLIBNET union catalogue is traditional union catalogue, in which records from multiple sources and formats are incorporated in to a single database. Recently, entire database platform have been changed and developed new web based search engine. The main feature of the new tool is that we tried to integrate different database on one server, which contains 12 lakh unique records of books.
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    State of Art Library Software (SOUL)
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2004) INFLIBNET Centre
    The SOUL is state-of-the-art library automation software designed and developed by the INFLIBNET. It is user-friendly software developed to work under client-server environment. Although looking at the name of the software, one may think that it is meant for University libraries only, but in fact it is flexible enough to be used for automating any type or size of library in India. While designing this software, the international standards, bibliographic formats, networking protocols, and typical functions of all types and sizes of libraries, particularly at university level, have been taken into account. The functions have been grouped into six categories, looking into the functional divisions of Indian University libraries. At present SOUL uses RDBMS on Windows N.T. operating system as back end to store and retrieve the data. However, keeping in view the trends in IT towards Linux operating system, efforts are under way also to provide SOUL to work on Linux platform. The inputs received from expert team consisting of practicing librarians and the feedbacks received from users of our earlier software, ILMS, have given a strong base for designing this software. SOUL is near total solution offered by INFLIBNET to Indian libraries. It puts library staff at ease in exploring all the functions to their advantages with the help of professionally prepared manual.