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Co-operative Online Bibliographic System and Services (COBISS.SI)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Slovenian Research Agency
University of Maribor
Location
Presernova 17, Maribor, PO: 2000 (Slovenia)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited
Coordinating Country
Slovenia
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 1991
Scientific Description
COBISS.SI represents an organisational model of joining Slovenian libraries into a uniform library information system with shared cataloguing, the COBIB shared bibliographic database, i.e. union catalogue, and local bibliographic databases of participating libraries, the COLIB database on libraries, the CONOR authority database, and with a number of other functions of the so-called virtual library. Functioning of the system is preconditioned by:Standardised and shared processing of library materials as well as a uniform management of catalogues and bibliographies;Adequately skilled cataloguers;Linking of libraries via computer and communications network.

RI Keywords
Interlibrary loan, Circulation, Online catalogue, Bibliography, Shared catalogue, Library information system, OPAC, Bibliographic database, Holdings, Library network, Virtual library, Library functions, Authority database, Library
Classifications
RI Category
Repositories
Registers and Survey-led Studies/Databases
Research Data Service Facilities
Research Bibliographies
Research Libraries
Complex Data Facilities
Research Archives
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Scientific Domain
Humanities and Arts
Information Science and Technology
Social Sciences
Services
Information Retrieval

Public available ALL meta data of over 430 slovenian libraries' repositories, incl materials availability, loaning status, reservation possibilities etc.

Bibliographies

Bibliographies of authors, producers, artists etc.

Most Read Books

Daily statistics of the most frequent circulated books.

Equipment
Information servers

Virtual and physical computer and data storage systems.

Date of last update: 06/06/2013
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