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Information Sources and Services

Notes script with diacritical marks. The standardization of the transliteration table made at that time
was helpful while developing software standards for Indian language scripts. Today this has
been made possible by CDAC GIST and is used to enter language data at present.
Before commencing regular publication, two experimental fascicules one with entries arranged
according to Dewey decimal classification and the other employing Colon Classification were
issued and circulated among experts at home and abroad for opinions and comments. After
continuous 15 months of hard work finally on 15th August 1958 the INB covering the last quarter
of 1957 made its appearance as a quarterly with annual cumulation. Its first issue was released by
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India.
INB records from since inception has been converted into electronic data. Almost 6 lakhs
bibliographical records belonging to different Indian Languages is available with CRL now.
This is inclusive of all the data belonging to the period for which printed INB is not available.
Efforts are being made to make these data available online. Thereafter latest information on the
books received at the National Library under will be available without delay.

INB Consists of 3 Parts – Classified, Author & Title Index and Subject Index

In the Classified part, the entries are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal system of subject
classification (22nd edition). The corresponding Colon Classification (6th Edition) is also assigned
at the right hand corner below each entry. Chain Procedure is using for subject headings. If more
than one entry comes under the same classification number, the entry is arranged according to
the alphabetical order of the author. If there are two or more works by the same author under
the specific classification number, the name of the author is not repeated and the works are
arranged alphabetically by their titles under the specific DDC number.

Example:

Sometimes, verbal extension is used where the DDC number is not available for a specific
subject and also gives emphasis on the particular subject by naming the further divisions in
words.

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