A Time to Build - Israeli Cataloging in Transition

Seymour, Chaim

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6657)

Abstract:

The Israeli library scene can be compared to that of European countries with a similar population. There are school libraries, public libraries, college and university libraries. Israel's national library also serves the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.The World of Learning, 1999 lists seven libraries with more than 250,000 volumes. Cataloging is carried out in the vernacular using four character sets, European, Hebrew, Arabic and Cyrillic.Retrospective conversion is taking place in two major libraries using OCLC's RETROCON. Cataloging INTERNET resources is assigned high priority.Preparations are being made for migration to a PC based client-server software, which will use Unicode and will improve the bi-directional facilities at present available.

Creation: 2000
Keywords: Catalogación ; Israel ; Bibliotecas

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