National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012. Email: prasanna@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; madhuresh@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
*Based on a paper presented at the National Seminar on Cataloguing of Digital Resources, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, 9–11 August 2002.
This paper gives an overview of a few Cataloguing Softwares, which are capable of cataloguing digital resources. Discusses usefulness of the software for cataloguing digital resources, availability of the software, some of their features in terms of platforms, access cost, supported modules and limitations. The study is based on the testing of the software in use. MARCit is a software for cataloguing in use Internet resources and has features like user-friendly interfaces, use of MARC format, interoperable with other local library software. It supports USMARC, can be integrated with any browser, and can also work with ftp sites. It does automatic filling of certain fields in the catalogue based on the browser properties. We have selected and reviewed som other software also. These are particularly useful to catalogue different types of resources. They enhance the search, browse and retrieval capability of the catalogued resources as well as provide single click access to all the information and printing spine labels, catalogue cards, etc. They can be used as stand-alone or can be combined with existing library packages.
