Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/1944/423
Title: Standards for Creating Bibliographic Databases in Indian Academic Libraries under INFLIBNET Umbrella
Authors: Chandrakar, Rajesh
Prakash, K
Chand, Prem
Murthy, T A V
Keywords: Bibliographic Standards
Information Exchange Format
INFLIBNET
Issue Date: Nov-2004
Publisher: INFLIBNET Center
Abstract: 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.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/423
ISBN: 81-900825-8-2
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