Modeling a Digitalized Indexing Structure for a Departmental Library Using HTML

Abstract

Every existing library possesses a catalogue, which is a guiding document for every user of the library who does not intend to waste time in identifying the actual location of a resource in a section of the library. A catalogue serves as a collection of the library’s blueprints, i.e. the various sections and the system of arrangement in the library. These catalogues in most libraries have become an old pile of cards, which is of little or no help to a library user in terms of resource location. Nowadays, card catalogues are being replaced with digital catalogues. A library viewed as a network of different sections can have its catalogue modeled using a web language (HyperText Mark-up language, or HTML). The use of such a model affords the community, which the library serves, with the advantage of better awareness. This work highlights the essentials of digital cataloguing and enumerates the steps involved in the conversion of an existing card catalogue to its digital equivalence.