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Notes 7.5.2 CALIBNET Services/Activities

(i) On-demand Information services

CALIBNET has several attractive information packages:
Confile Service: CALIBNET’s Confile service reaches at one’s desk contents of any journal of one’s
choice out of over 20,000 high-impact journals. Libraries can now prune their journal subscription
list or even forego subscribing to new ones, when budgetary constraints so demand, and still get
expressed to their contents from ConFile. ConFile helps libraries in economizing on journal
subscription and reducing the drain on precious foreign exchange resources.
Caliborder: On demand, caliborder offers the requisite back-up service by way of delivery of full
text of any article and even patents.
ConAlert: Through ConAlert service CALIBNET gives current and tailored bibliographic
information. One can leave with CALIBNET just keywords defining his subject interest and get at
regular intervals, the current information related to his interest at his desk.
RetroFile: This service offers latest status and trend of research on any specific topic. ConFile,
ConAlert and RetroFile, in combination, offer the latest information and advances in the entire
spectrum of the subject interest.
(ii) CALIBLINK
A special feature of CALIBNET is the Caliblink, an email connectivity (from its ERNET hub) installed
and working fine at four institutions.
(iii) Institutional Resources Development Services

Some of the key institutional resources development services offered are:
(a) Retrospective conversion of existing card catalogue in libraries into computerized local databases
via electronic mode by down loading from international databases;
(b) Consultative services on LIS automation
(c) Manpower development for operating and manning automated LIS environment through a wide
range of graded training programmes, and customized courses for individuals or group at client’s
site.

(iv) SANJUKTA and PARAPAR Software
SANJUKTA
Multi-user storage and retrieval software has been developed in-house to support CALIBNET’s
Centralised Database and to provide online access from remote locations. SANJUKTA has been
designed and implemented by A Mukhopadhyay, Technical Consultant, CALIBNET and his
associates based on MOD+, software he developed earlier to support management of small/medium-
size libraries. The software has been developed, using 4 GL Code and designed to provide the user
with options and flexibility in generating records, organizing and searching information viewing
the search outputs, and interchanging data files with external databases with least manual
interference.
PARAPAR
A conversion software package, PARAPAR has been developed in CALIBNET to support interchange
of bibliographic data between USMARC, UNIMARC and CCF Files and also from non-standard
formats to standard ones. Its primary objective is to convert data files, received from the participating
libraries in variant formats, into a ISO-2709 compliant implementation through which the files are
merged into the centralized Database of CALIBNET.

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