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Publication date: 1 September 1999

Sara Gould

With shrinking local library resources and the growth of resource sharing, union catalogues, in one form or another, are an important feature in today’s library world. This…

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With shrinking local library resources and the growth of resource sharing, union catalogues, in one form or another, are an important feature in today’s library world. This article takes a look at some of the developments in union catalogue production, from card catalogue to virtual union catalogues or clumps, and discusses their use for document access and supply. The IFLA World Directory of National Union Catalogues, a kind of union catalogue of union catalogues, is also described.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 27 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 March 2001

Henk Voorbij

The union catalogue of monographs published before 1976 is maintained by the Dutch National Library in card form and contains five to six million records from 95 libraries. The…

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The union catalogue of monographs published before 1976 is maintained by the Dutch National Library in card form and contains five to six million records from 95 libraries. The extent to which these records need to be converted into machine‐readable form depends on several factors. Does the holding library still exist? Does the holding library participate in the Pica shared cataloguing system and has it converted its own card catalogue? Did the holding library convert its card catalogue using another library system? Are the cards in the union catalogue still reliable or did the holding library discard volumes from its collection without notifying the National Library? A feasibility study showed that the holding data of 59 libraries could be removed without any further processing; this amounts to 72.6 per cent of the cards. For the remaining 27.4 per cent of the cards from 36 libraries, priorities for the retrospective conversion of their data in the union catalogue were determined.

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Program, vol. 35 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 1 January 1980

D Russon

Because of the concentration of inter/ending on the British Library Lending Division, union catalogues primarily play a supportive role in Britain. All union catalogues now held…

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Because of the concentration of inter/ending on the British Library Lending Division, union catalogues primarily play a supportive role in Britain. All union catalogues now held at the Lending Division have their origins in the National Central Library (NCL). The main one is the Union Catalogue of Books (UCB) which is an amalgamation of the NCL's Outlier Union Catalogue (OUC) and part of its National Union Catalogue (NUC). With the creation of the British Library Lending Division and its policy of acquiring all ‘worthwhile’ English language books it was decided that it would no longer be necessary to have a central author/title catalogue of recently published English language books. Only details of foreign language books and pre‐7972 English books are therefore now added to the catalogue. Other smaller catalogues used are: the combined regional ISBN list, the pre‐1801 Catalogue, the Conference Catalogue, the Government Publications Catalogue, and the Slavonic Union Catalogue. The Lending Division does not maintain a catalogue of serials, the British Union Catalogue of Periodicals (BUCOP) is used to locate titles or parts not in stock at the Division.

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Interlending Review, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-2773

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Publication date: 1 March 2004

Philip Hider

Examines some of the bibliographic advantages of a union catalogue with a central database over a distributed, or “virtual” union catalogue. Discusses the nature of these…

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Examines some of the bibliographic advantages of a union catalogue with a central database over a distributed, or “virtual” union catalogue. Discusses the nature of these bibliographic advantages in the context of interlibrary document delivery, and also the circumstances which produce them, and make them more significant. Reports on a brief study of the extent to which two major library catalogues in Singapore have diverged following the adoption of a distributed model. This indicated that the bibliographic content of a distributed union catalogue may be significantly poorer than that of a central database, and in particular in terms of more: duplication; inconsistency; errors; and omissions. There are at least four important reasons why this may be so.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 32 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 March 1982

Stuart Ede

Aware of both the opportunities for automation of its union catalogues and of the problems posed by a potential shift to uncontrolled direct interlending stimulated by the growth…

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Aware of both the opportunities for automation of its union catalogues and of the problems posed by a potential shift to uncontrolled direct interlending stimulated by the growth of the co‐operatives' shared cataloguing databases, the British Library set up an Ad hoc Working Party on Union Catalogues, which reported in April. A strategy of interlending catalogue provision is proposed that has as its main elements a Union Finding List of Foreign Language Monographs on COM, a Lending Division monograph stock catalogue, on COM and on‐line, and the Combined Regional Locations List enhanced with Lending Division stock. Work is under way to choose a system capable of supporting these catalogues as well as the acquisition, cataloguing and request checking activities of the Division. The first phases of operation are scheduled for 1984.

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Interlending Review, vol. 10 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-2773

Article
Publication date: 1 April 1999

Shirley Cousins

Z39.50 is often put forward as a means of providing a virtual union catalogue without the need for a physical union database. This paper considers some of the major technical and…

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Z39.50 is often put forward as a means of providing a virtual union catalogue without the need for a physical union database. This paper considers some of the major technical and organisational issues involved in virtual catalogue production, contrasting them with the traditional union catalogue approach exemplified by COPAC. A way of integrating these two models of the union catalogue is suggested, which would allow effective service provision in the immediate future.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 17 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 June 2010

Afshin Mousavi Chelak and Fereydoon Azadeh

This paper aims to focus on the formation of union catalogues and union lists in Iran and discuss the development of these tools in electronics and online environments. It also…

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Purpose

This paper aims to focus on the formation of union catalogues and union lists in Iran and discuss the development of these tools in electronics and online environments. It also aims to identify the obstacles regarding their development.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper takes the form of a case study.

Findings

Despite the long history of the creation of union catalogues in Iran, this paper demonstrates that projects dealing with this subject either have totally ceased functioning or have been moving ahead at a snail's pace.

Originality/value

This paper is the first and the most comprehensive paper discussing the process of the formation and development of union catalogues in Iran and can be used by all researchers.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 38 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 2 November 2015

Danijela Boberić-Krstićev and Danijela Tešendić

The purpose of this paper is to present the software architecture of the university’s union catalogue in Novi Sad, Serbia. The university’s union catalogue would comprise the…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present the software architecture of the university’s union catalogue in Novi Sad, Serbia. The university’s union catalogue would comprise the collections of 14 academic libraries.

Design/methodology/approach

The basis of this paper is a case study of developing a software solution for the union catalogue of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. The solution principles of object-oriented modelling are applied to describe the software architecture. Specifically, the unified modeling language (UML) component and sequence diagrams are used. The database model is described by using a physical data model.

Findings

Through the research of related papers and, taking into consideration the problem of creating a university union catalogue, it is concluded that the best approach is to combine the idea of a virtual and a physical union catalogue. Records are stored in one physical union catalogue, while the holdings data are stored in the local library management systems (LMSs) organized in the form of virtual union catalogues. Because academic libraries often use LMSs from different vendors, interoperable communication between those LMSs and the union catalogue is provided through the usage of standard library protocols for information retrieval (Search and Retrieve URL [SRU], SRU Record Update and NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol [NCIP]).

Research limitations/implications

The development of a union catalogue for the University of Novi Sad is in its test phase, and, at this moment, only a software solution supporting the functionalities of a union catalogue has been created.

Practical implications

By introducing a university union catalogue, students would be able to search the collections of all the university libraries by using a single portal. Their results would indicate whether a book is available and from which library it is available to borrow.

Originality/value

Originality of this software architecture lies in the usage of standard library protocols. The described architecture enables the addition of new members to the university union catalogue, regardless of which LMS the library uses.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 33 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 January 1986

Arie W Willemsen

Union catalogues form the main instrument of interlending in the Netherlands. The most important ones are maintained by the Royal Library in The Hague, the Technical University at…

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Union catalogues form the main instrument of interlending in the Netherlands. The most important ones are maintained by the Royal Library in The Hague, the Technical University at Delft, and the Library of the Agricultural University at Wageningen. On‐line library automation will have an increasing impact on interlending, and the challenge is being met by these libraries by setting up an on‐line catalogue of serials, monographs and conference publications combined with an on‐line system for handling interlibrary loan requests developed by the Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation (PICA). The first phase — the serials system — came on‐line in May 1983, and it is hoped the monograph system will be in operation by early 1986.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1983

Brian Kefford

The proceedings of a conference on the future of union catalogues, the recent Unesco guidelines on the compilation of union catalogues of serials and a book on future access to…

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The proceedings of a conference on the future of union catalogues, the recent Unesco guidelines on the compilation of union catalogues of serials and a book on future access to information and documents in France are discussed.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 11 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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