Theses and dissertations in print and electronic format is a valuable academic resources, this resources must be available to scholars. Library catalogue serve as interface and resource discovery tool to find this valuable academic documents. In view of the importance of organization and access to these resources, this paper explores cataloguing of theses and dissertations and its retrieval along with other types of documents in an integrated processing environment. The software framework that provides integrated processing and retrieval environment is based on open source software and open standard. Designing of the framework takes into consideration shortcomings of the maximum used library automation software implemented in India.
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