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Information Sources and Services

Notes
Example: In the Subject Index under India, all the subjects related to India have been
brought together.

Standardization

Standardization of bibliographic information is very essential in a national bibliography.
Standardization helps in easy retrieval, depth of access, ensures uniformity, reliability, quality
and copy cataloguing which is a recognized way of economical cataloguing. A library can make
use of the work already done by another library by copying the bibliographic record and make
a few changes to the record if needed. Standardization in case of INB result in
Offering better services to the users

Avoiding the duplication of effort
Saving the time and manpower
Enhancing cooperation amongst libraries

Establishing effective networks
National Bibliographic agency is responsible to standardize the author and publisher by
maintaining an authority file.

Notes Author authority should include personal author, corporate bodies, ministries,
institutions and other official organizations within the country.
In a Multilingual country like India, Author authority is very much essential. Generally the INB
transliterate the name, according to the region and language it represents. For that purpose,
concerned language divisions of INB standardize the author belonging to the concerned language;
other language divisions use that data.

Example: Rabindranath Tagore appears differently in various languages. It appears as
Rabindranath Tagore in English, Ravindranath Tagore in Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi languages
etc. (some Indic languages).

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