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Unit 7: Libraries and Information Centers in India

• social science management and economics, behavioral sciences, quantitative methods, com- Notes
puter science, etc. including predominantly journals held by management libraries in South
Asia libraries of Indian Statistical Institute and the Indian Institute of management, Calcutta
and
• Index to contents of serials published by Asiatic Society in previous two centuries.

7.5.1 Library Network

The Centralized Database (CDB) is the bedrock of CALIBNET and its development essentially calls
for a cooperative movement, whereby each library par rakes in the movement by contributing its
own holdings data to be incorporated in the CDB and thereby enrich it. The CDB needs to be now
augmented by inputting holdings data of as many libraries as possible and getting the data
continuously updated. Optimum coverage of libraries, which alone will progressively transform
the CDB into a truly resourceful online searchable central pool of Calcutta’s bibliographic holding
data, is now on with the cooperation of libraries.

The Participating Libraries
The responses from institutional libraries are very encouraging. The libraries of following institutions
have extended co-operation by way of furnishing their respective machine-readable database and
current journal subscription lists:
• Calcutta University
• Jadavpur University
• Indian Statistical Institute
• Indian Institute of Management
• Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres
• Anthropological Survey of India
• Botanical Survey of India
• Geological Survey of India
• Zoological Survey of India
• Bengal Engineering College ( a deemed university)
• National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization
• Bose Institute
• University College of Medicine (Calcutta University)
These are being now inputted into the CDB. In coming years, holding data of many more libraries
are expected to go into the CDB. Priority is being accorded to holding data relating to current journals
subscribed and new additions from January 1, 1999.

Electronic Access to Global Information
In addition with its library network programme, CALIBNET has added to itself under to information
centre approach, a new dimension that of a purveyor of global information, a phenomenon that
now pervades international information market.
With online access to Internet and in-house CD-ROM resources, CALIBNET can explore a wide
spectrum of the knowledge base and cooperate and professional enterprises, and meet the
information requirements of researchers, academics and other scholars, professional and any other
practitioners engaged in a wide gamut of subject interest.

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