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Unit 7: Libraries and Information Centers in India

• How to ensure it is within legal boundaries and other constraints Notes
• Level of interactivity (e.g., wikis, on-line forms) desired
• Is the input of new data and updating of existing data to be centrally controlled or developed.

These are in addition to the hardware and software decisions (like content management systems),
participation issues (like good taste, harassment, confidentiality), and features to be supported.
Intranets are often static sites. Essentially they are a shared drive, serving up centrally stored
documents alongside internal articles or communications (often one-way communication). However,
organizations are now starting to think of how their intranets can become a ‘communication hub’
for their team by using companies specializing in ‘socialising’ intranets. The actual implementation
would include steps such as:
• Securing senior management support and funding.
• Business requirements analysis.
• Identify users’ information needs.
• Installation of web server and user access network.
• Installing required user applications on computers.
• Creation of document framework for the content to be hosted.
• Users’ involvement in testing and promoting the use of intranet.
• Ongoing measurement and evaluation, through benchmarking against other intranets.
Another useful component in an intranet structure is to maintain the Intranet. For feedback on the
intranet, social networking can be done through a forum for users to indicate what they want and
what they do not like.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
11. The first intranet websites and home pages began to appear in organizations in 1996–1997.
12. Intranets can serve as powerful tools for communication within an organization, vertically
and horizontally.

7.8 Summary
• Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is an Autonomous Inter-University
Centre (IUC) of University Grants Commission, Government of India, involved in creating
infrastructure for sharing of library and information resources and services among Academic
and Research Institutions.
• INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India.
• The objectives of INFLIBNET is to promote and establish communication facilities to improve
capability in information transfer and access.
• ERNET is largest nationwide terrestrial and satellite network with point of presence located
at the premiere educational and research institutions in major cities of the country.
• ERNET was initiated in 1986 by the Department of Electronics (DoE).
• An intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to securely share
any part of an organization’s information or network operating system within that
organization.

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