Site Location:Home Page>>Featured Service>>Joint Cataloging Center>>Charter

Charter

Chapter 1 General Principle

The establishment of the Bibliographic Data Service Center of Tianjin Coordination Committee for Library and information work (abbreviated as “Tianjin Library Collecting and Editing Center”) aims to meet the requirements for libraries in a rapidly developing information age and to actively and effectively carry out union cataloging of local literatures. In addition, in line with the principles of unified planning, unified standards, cooperative construction, coordinated management and common development, it tends to organize all kinds of local libraries of all systems to establish online literatures union catalogue database of all libraries in Tianjin, and finally to achieve the literature catalogues resource sharing of all libraries in Tianjin and to promote the common development of the business.

Chapter 2 Organizational Structure

Article 1 Tianjin Library Collecting and Editing Center was established on the basis of the Editorial Department of Tianjin Library. It is a non-profit organization, which is subordinate to the Tianjin library from the administrative point of view, and also relies on the member libraries.
     Article 2 Tianjin Library Collecting and Editing Center is composed of professional personnel with rich collecting and editing experience and strong professional proficiency. They are mainly responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the central database and data transmission services, and also provide business consulting and the management of users.

Chapter 3 Function of the Center

Article 1  Responsible for the coordination, organization and management of the union cataloging of the local literature (editing and cataloguing).
    Article 2 Responsible for the establishment of online literature union catalog database of all libraries in Tianjin.
    Article 3 Responsible for quality control of data in the union catalog database and the database maintenance.
    Article 4 Responsible for the business training and related consultation of book collecting and editing, promoting the standardization and normalization of the union cataloging.

Chapter 4  The Rights and Obligations of Member Libraries

Article 1  Any unit who acknowledges this constitution and voluntarily applies to join the Center may become a member library after registration in the center.
    Article 2 Member libraries may enjoy preferential prices of all the services and some of the products provided by the Center, but also have the obligation to strictly follow all standards established by the Center to normatively build the library's bibliographic database.
    Article 3 Receive necessary business trainings and business seminars organized by the Center.

Chapter 5 Joining Method

Any unit who acknowledges this constitution and voluntarily applies to join the Center may become a member library after registration in the center.