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Seema Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 12: Libraries and Information Centers in India

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Unit 12: Libraries and Information Centers in India

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
12.1 Libraries and Information Centers in India
12.2 DELNET
12.2.1 Objectives of DELNET
12.2.2 Membership
12.2.3 DELNET Activities/Services
12.2.4 The Future of DELNET
12.3 INFLIBNET
12.3.1 Objectives of INFLIBNET
12.3.2 Functions of INFLIBNET
12.4 ERNET
12.4.1 History of ERNET
12.4.2 ERNET Backbone
12.4.3 The Objectives of ERNET
12.5 NICNET
12.5.1 Achievements
12.5.2 NICNET Facilities
12.6 Summary
12.7 Keywords
12.8 Review Questions
12.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Discuss the libraries and Information centres in India
Describe about INFLIBNET
State about ERNET.

Introduction

During the recent period quite a large number of libraries and information centres are forming
networks. As computer networking is an integral part of the library and information infrastructure
has a very important role in the way in which library and Information systems perceived. Thus India
has to play a very important role for library and information purposes. So India has many libraries
and information centres for the purpose of libraries and information. Some of them are discussed as
follows.

12.1 Libraries and Information Centers in India
Ahmedabad Library Network (ADINET)
Bombay Science Librarian’s Association (BOSLA)
Calcutta Library Network (CALIBNET)
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