iLib.UC – iLib Union Catalogue

The idea of iLib.UC is that creates one place which stores all of information resources from different places and shares them with patrons. This system should be used for corporate libraries, special libraries, public libraries, information centers or any group of libraries. iLib.UC is especially useful to national information centers.

Main Features

> Enable collecting bibliographic records of member libraries into one unique database.

> Edit bibliographic records and make them more exact

> Reduce human resource and budget in editing data

> Standardizing in: method of exploiting data, the way libraries exchanges data, data exchange format, classification table, subject heading

> Improve quality of services for end-users

> Make connection to digital data resource (full text, images, audio, video,…)

Outstanding features:

> Support multi-language, support Vietnamese language fully, many character set tables which iLib.UC supports: Unicode, Vni, ABC….

> Support description formats: ISBD, AACR2, TCVN 4743-89, Vietres... classification tables: DDC, BBK, UDC, LCC,... and dictionaries: keyword, subject, author...

> Support UNIMAC and MARC21.

> Online Public Access Catalogue

> Barcode integration

> Import/ Export data with UNIMARC, MARC21 and other MARC standards (if requested).

> All of functions are stored in one unique interface and run on one share database.

> Work on Multi-platform: MS Windows NT, MS Windows 2000, Unix (Sun Solaris, Linux Redhat,..).

> Interface is friendly and all functions are easy to use

Benefits of iLib.UC

> Improve information resources and strengthen capability of providing information to end-users

> iLib.UC allows to centralize databases from different places. End-users can exploit the hugest and fullest resource of information because all of data is gathered into one server from member libraries.

> With the open system model, iLib.UC can be customized flexibly. It allows end-users to exploit digital materials in high performance with data safety and high security level.

> iLib.UC enables to gather bibliographic records which distributed in many places and to manage them at one server.