Annals of Library Science and Documentation 1988,35(4),178-188FEDCBA CREATION OF THE DIRECTORY OF PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS FOR NUCSSI USING M IN I-M IC R O CDS/ISIS UTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA Software package Mini-Micro CDS/ISIS has been used in the creation of data base for the Direc- tory of Participating Institutions for National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India (NUCSSI). Describes step by step the file deve- lopment and sorting of records in the data base. Different sort keys are given in the worksheet along with the formatting required for the various print outputs. Specifies the recency of the data received from various institutions lead- ing to the updating of the NUCSSI data base. Some problems faced during the work are men- tioned. INTRODUC'TION In recent years, significant developments in rnicroc.cctronics have considerably extended its range of applications in information handling. The advent of personal computers has simplified many of the information handling activities such as acquisitions, catalogue card productions, information storage and retrieval, which were so being handled by mainframe computers. The ,:cncration of information products like indexing md abstracting bulletins, creation of directories, -t c. can now be performed with ease using per- sonal computers. The advent of microcomputers in the 70's and the availability of many standard software packages, which can now be used without any programming knowledge, have made the task of information processing simpler. In the past few years, quite a few microcomputer programs have been designed for bibliographic work, e.g. crea- tion of catalogues, compilation of abstracting and indexing services, searching of data bases, etc. One of the most versatile microcomputer based information storage and retrieval systems, known as Mini-Micro CDS/ISIS version 1.0, has been developed and released by UNESCO, avail- able free of charge to non-profit organisations of UNESCO member states. 178 SHAILENDRA KUMAR V V LAKSHMI SRKUNDU INSDOC New De1hi-ll0067 NATIONAL SCENE In India CDS/ISIS Mini Micro version software has been supplied by UNESCO through DSIR to nearly 100 organisations handling information. INSDOC has received the package directly from UNESCO. The National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India (NUCSSI), compiled by INSOOC, containing the data of 35,000 scientific serials available in more than 800 institutions has been created in the machine readable form on magne- tic tapes and one of its important components, the Directory of Participating Institutions (DPI) containing the details like the name of the insti- tute, postal address, lending and photocopying facilities and telephone/telegram/telex numbers has been created on floppy using the software package Mini-Micro CDS/ISIS. Mini-Micro CDS/ISIS is a set of programs written in PASCAL. This system is menu driven. The Directory has been created using an IBM compatible PC and PC/AT having two drive sys- tem. Micro/ISIS consists of a set of 3 system pro- grams namely 1. ISISDEF - a) to define a new data base b) to modify the existing data base 2. ISISUTL - a) to create and edit work- sheets/menus b) to display/modify screen attributes c) to print system messages 3. ISISXCH - a) to reorganise, back-up and restore master file Ann Lib Sci Docu