Creation of Union Databases at INFLIBNET

Abstract

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.