One Step towards Copy Catalogue: An Application by INFLIBNET Centre

Abstract

This paper is about to cataloguing and more emphasis on copy cataloguing. Recently INFLIBNET Centre developed an application Online Copy Catalogue System (OCS). Basically to promote cooperative cataloguing and avoid duplication of efforts in terms of cataloguing, OCS is designed. Online Copy Catalogue System (OCS) is a windows based application that enables copying records of documents available in IndCat (collection of more than 60 lakh unique bibliographic records of books) into the Integrated Library Management Software (SOUL 2.0) directly. This process updates the holding information for the bibliographic record being downloaded. It als of acilitate upload & download the bulk record to & from IndCat server respectively . This paperalso explains briefly in terms of how to catalogue, issue during the process of catalogue, parameter to choose the catalgoue system.