Best Books 2008 & IndCat

Best Books 2008
By Ann Burns, Margaret Heilbrun, Barbara Hoffert, Anna Katterjohn, Heather McCormack, Mirela Roncevic, & Wilda Williams -- Library Journal, 12/15/2008

Listen up, Barack Obama! You'll find useful reading on LJ's annual Best Books list, from Stephen Hess's What Do We Do Now? A Workbook for the President-Elect to Mahvish Rukhsana Khan's My Guantánamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me and Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape. It's not all politics, though. From fiction debuts by Uwem Akpan, Nam Le, and Saša Stanišic´ to works from masters Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Marilynne Robinson, from a biography of Shakespeare's wife to a chronicle of Sixties "girls like us," and from accounts of divorce and madness to hot thrillers and cool how-to, this list has enough to occupy anyone for the coming year.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/ article/CA661883 7.html


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IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities is unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 112 university libraries across the country. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for inter-library loan, collections development as well as for copy cataloguing and retro-conversion of bibliographic records. The IndCat consists three components available in open access to users and librarians.

Books: Over ten millions bibliographical records of books from more than 112 university libraries. more details
Theses: Doctoral theses submitted to various Indian universities till date. more details
Serials: Currently subscribed journals by the universities and holdings information on serials available in various university libraries. more details

http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/

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Kishor