A union (collective) catalog of national or international scope can be a combined library catalog that describes the collections of several libraries. According to the 'Encyclopedia of Library and information Sciences' (FEATHER; STURGES, 2003, p. 643), it is an information system with distribution of bibliographic data that “contains not only a list of bibliographic records from participating libraries , but also, of information about the places to identify the properties and collections of the contributing libraries of the system ”. National collective catalogs are instruments that represent bibliographic funds from many collections dispersed in a given country and that can aggregate information services, offer operations such as bibliographic exchange and interaction with users (FEATHER; STURGES, 2003, HIDER, 2003, SUAREZ; WOUDHUYSEN , 2010).
In Pakistan the practice of union catalogue at national level is not visible. No such efforts is underway.
In Poland there exist NUKAT union cooperative catalog (katalog.nukat.edu.pl). For it preparation more than 160 libraries deliver their bibliographic and localization records.
Dear Sir,
In Switzerland we have a collective online hub for research of all resources from all University libraries plus the Swiss National Library. Please, find the link in English here: https://www.swissbib.ch/?lng=fr
Greetings form Switzerland.
PS: a similar online platform exists in Italy as well.
Dear Eduardo
In the meantime, I checked the example of the Italian catalogue which I mentioned in my previous reply. There a two such collective platforms. The main one is OPAC SNB (Online Public Access Catalog - Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale). I give the link to the English page here: https://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opac/iccu/change.jsp?language=en. Another one is specialized on Periodicals owned by all libraries in Italy. Its name is ACNP - Archivio Collettivo Nazional dei Periodici, an initiative of the University of Bologna. The link is here: https://acnp.sba.unibo.it/, as well as: https://acnpsearch.unibo.it/
Kind regards, I hope it helps
Christian
Dear Christian, it definitely helps me a lot. I thank you in advance for your contribution to my research. If you want to provide other information, my institutional email is: [email protected] . It will be a pleasure to keep in touch.
Best regards
In the United States we can access our holdings, nationwide and internationally (to some extent) through WorldCat and other online sources.
Some efforts are underway to develop a nation wide union catalogue, on the pattern of WorldCat of OCLC, in Pakistan. Visit Union Catalogue (pakcat.pastic.gov.pk)
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