Project Objectives

The Unified Jordanian Index seeks to achieve the following objectives:

• Establishing, developing, and maintaining the Jordanian National Center for the Unified Index (within the National Library). The Center will seek to integrate and unify the holdings and efforts of Jordanian libraries on the Unified Jordanian Index platform, reflecting a vibrant image of the Jordanian cultural landscape and enriching library practices. The priorities of this center include:

1. Upgrading national policies for library services.
2. Ensuring the quality control of bibliographic records, authority files, and holdings records in the Unified Jordanian Index, both prior to and following data entry.
3. Providing continuous development and training for library staff through the organization of training courses and workshops.
4. Providing advanced, flexible technologies, which contributes to upgrading advanced services, saving effort, and reducing and rationalizing financial expenditures.

• Informing users of the location of information resources and identifying which libraries hold them. The user may be a librarian or a researcher, as the Unified Jordanian Index constitutes a comprehensive national index of information resources available across participating Jordanian libraries.
• Establishing the foundations for interlibrary loan among Jordanian libraries and facilitating user access to these resources.
• Enabling libraries participating in the Unified Jordanian Index to coordinate and unify their technical operations, including acquisition, cataloging, classification, and computerization.
• Utilizing the Unified Jordanian Index to reduce duplicate resources in libraries and ensure access to unique collections in certain libraries, as well as working to identify and bridge gaps in library collections.
• Establishing frameworks for cooperation among libraries to achieve various mutual benefits and rationalize expenditures by avoiding the purchase of expensive, low-use library materials, and instead downloading their bibliographic records.
• Committing to the continuous provision of bibliographic data via the internet or by regularly supplying the National Library with machine-readable record files, followed by rigorous quality control.
• Managing and ensuring the quality of authority files (authors, subject headings, series, geographic locations, etc.).
• Localizing global technologies and advanced policies for handling information resources and making them available to users through modern methods as rapidly as possible.
• Encouraging and contributing to the preparation of bibliometric studies on library holdings, including subject, geographic, and linguistic distribution, as well as place and date of publication.