Cataloguing is an important activity in a library. It forms the basis for information retrieval. Facilitating effective retrieval of information is the primary objective of any information system / library. Over the years, we witness that the number of rules in AACR have increased like other codes in tune with the emergence of various types of documents. Obviously, it became very difficult for the cataloguer to remember all these rules in order to effectively catalogue a document. The book explains a step by step approach in building an expert system for Part 1 (rules for ...

The Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is an interoperability framework that facilitates discovery of resources from multiple digital repositories from a single search service, known as OAI Service Provider. Even though OAI-PMH has become very popular among scholarly repositories, majority of scholarly literature still do not support it. Although this situation will keep improving, we cannot expect all the scholarly resources to be OAI-compliant at the article-level any time soon. This is especially true in case of primary resources, keeping in view that there...