An automated union catalogue for higher education in Indonesia: design studies for the Katalog Induk Perguruan Tinggi

Abstract

A project to develop a national academic union catalogue for the 49 universities and major teacher training colleges of Indonesia has completed its design stages, and procurement of software and computing equipment will follow. The operational centre, will share a site in Dépok with the University of Indonesia. Early phases of implementation will concentrate on the 12 Discipline Service Centres where expertise and resources are concentrated in centres of excellence for selected subjects, to enable all students and researchers to share in this investment. In the course of the design studies, an examination was made of the library automation needs of a major university, Universitas Gadjah Mada, to ensure compatibility between national plans and end user requirements in library automation as a whole. The use of CD‐ROM is proposed as a distribution medium for the union catalogue of at least 500,000 titles. Pilot studies will be made in parallel with retrospective conversion of existing catalogues, to check out CD‐ROM production routes and explore approaches to subject indexing using multiple schemes and in several languages.

Digitisation of collections in Indonesian academic libraries

“…The time lapse between the development of digital libraries in developed countries (early-mid-1990s) and in Indonesia is not so long and is very different from the situation with library automation activities. While many academic libraries in North America and Western Europe automated their library housekeeping activities in the early or mid-1970s, the academic libraries in Indonesia did not begin to use computers and software, such as Unesco's freely available Micro CDS/ISIS, for their housekeeping activities until the mid or late 1980s (Ashford et al, 1992).…”

An information‐space model for the development and application of computer‐based tools in information creation and dissemination

“…The clever bits lie in preparation of the coding frames (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules; various MARC formats) and the establishment of new authorities. The actual process of catalogue record entry from a book or journal is data entry clerical work and can in many libraries be mostly done at a skill level of 'students of librarianship earning pocket-money' [27].…”