CASLIN Union Catalogue functionALITY – the centralized resource for information professionals and for cataloguing

CASLIN Union Catalogue is open to all libraries, which are able and willing to follow the agreed standards. The CUBUS tailor made system using the ORACLE database system has been used since 2000 for the CASLIN Union Catalogue. CUBUS system brought substantial improvements such as better administration, much faster process of import of records, a new automatic UNIMARC test, a new and more efficient test to detect duplicities, tool for shared cataloguing and interlibrary services. Those libraries, which are active in contributing their own records to the Union Catalogue (active participants) can download the records from the Union Catalogue and create new Union Catalogue records from distance directly inside the catalogue itself (on-line cataloguing). The preparatory steps were done to use a union database of national authorities in the Union Catalogue. The Union Catalogue is accessible in a user-friendly application interface at URL: http://www.caslin.cz.

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In 1981 Gabriela Krčmařová graduated from the Institute of Library and Information Science of the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Since then, she has been working in the National Library of the Czech Republic in the Union Catalogue of the Foreign Documents Department. In 1994 she was appointed head of the CASLIN Union Catalogue Department. Her responsibility reaches from contracts with the Union Catalogue participants to the procurement of technology and software. She regularly published and gives presentations at Czech and foreign library related events.