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Cataloguing Theses and Dissertations: Designing an Integrated Processing and Retrieval System


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1 Central Library, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, India
2 Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713 104, India
     

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Theses and dissertations in print and electronic format are valuable academic resources. These resources must be available to scholars. Library catalogues serve as resource discovery tools to find these valuable academic documents. In view of the importance of organization and access to these resources, this paper explores cataloguing of theses and dissertations and its retrieval along with other types of documents in an integrated processing environment. The software framework that provides integrated processing and retrieval environment is based on open source software and open standards. Designing of the framework takes into consideration shortcomings of the popular library automation software implemented in India.

Keywords

ETD Cataloguing, ETD-MS and MARC-21 Mapping, Theses Retrieval, ETD Management in Library Automation.
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Prosenjit Sarkar
Central Library, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104
India

Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713 104
India


Notifications

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Authors

Prosenjit Sarkar
Central Library, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, India
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713 104, India

Abstract


Theses and dissertations in print and electronic format are valuable academic resources. These resources must be available to scholars. Library catalogues serve as resource discovery tools to find these valuable academic documents. In view of the importance of organization and access to these resources, this paper explores cataloguing of theses and dissertations and its retrieval along with other types of documents in an integrated processing environment. The software framework that provides integrated processing and retrieval environment is based on open source software and open standards. Designing of the framework takes into consideration shortcomings of the popular library automation software implemented in India.

Keywords


ETD Cataloguing, ETD-MS and MARC-21 Mapping, Theses Retrieval, ETD Management in Library Automation.

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