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Information Technology and Application

Notes Central Reference Library, Kolkata
Defence Scientific Information and Documenation Centre (DESIDOC)
Delhi Library Association
Delhi Public Library
Developing Library Network (DELNET)
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore
Health Education Library for People
Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers (IASLIC)
Indian Library Association (ILA)
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad
Kerala Library Association
Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management
Madras Library Association
Medical Library Association of India (MLAI)
Mysore Library Network (MYLIBNET), Mysore
National Center for Science Information (NCSI), Bangalore
National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT), New Delhi
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi
(Formerly INSDOC)
National Library of India
National Medical Library
National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC), New Delhi
Pune Library Network
Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation
SAARC Documentation Centre
Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship (SATKAL)
Small Enterprises National Documentation Center (SENDOC)
Society for Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS)
Society for Information Science (SIS)
Special Libraries Association, Asian Chapter
Uttar Pradesh Library Association
Virtual Information Center

12.2 DELNET

Delhi is growing as a major centre of information resources in India. These resources cater both to
the specialized and the general users. They are located in activities, information and documentation
centres, institutional libraries, research libraries, government libraries, public libraries, department
libraries besides the libraries of the universities, colleges and schools. During the recent years,
increase in information has led to increase in the demands of the users. It has been noticed that in
this area of information explosion, libraries in India are generally ill-equipped to handle and
retrieve information effectively, the financial resources and the space requirement for housing
library collection are limited in almost all of the libraries. Not a single library can afford to house
every necessary document even in the area of its interest. Resource sharing, thus assumes great
importance at this juncture the option left with the forward looking librarians has been to promote
the sharing of resources by automation and networking.

Notes With this objective, in January 1988, the India International Centre initiated efforts for
the establishment of Delhi Library Network (Now Developing Library Network).

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