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Information Technology and Application

Notes outside India specializing in South Asian studies to take DELNET membership. DELNET databases
are going to be accessible through INTERNET which will made accessibility very fast. INTERNET
users in India are increasing and it will increase DELNET presence in different parts of India. DELNET
has already created software, viz. DELDOS and DEL-WINDOWS for creating MARC records .These
software will so on be developed to perform library operations as well. There developments are
likely to give more revenue to DELNET and provide justification for more and more libraries to join
DELNET. As resource, it is hoped the DELNET will grow faster as a service based resource sharing
model in India.

Task Write short notes on
Task (i) Objectives of DELNET (ii) Services and activites of DELNET (iii) Future of DELNET

Self Assessment
Fill in the blanks:
1. DELNET stands for .................... .
2. .................... is the first operational library network in India.
3. DELNET has .................... . members including both institutional and associate-institutional
members.

12.3 INFLIBNET

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.

Notes INFLIBNET works collaboratively with Indian university libraries to shape the future
of the academic libraries in the evolving information environment.
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is an autonomous Inter-University
Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. It is a major National Programme
initiated by the UGC in 1991 with its Head Quarters at Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad.
Initially started as a project under the IUCAA, it became an independent Inter-University Centre
in 1996.
INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India and connecting them as well as
information centers in the country through a nation-wide high speed data network using the state-
of-art technologies for the optimum utilization of information. INFLIBNET is set out to be a major
player in promoting scholarly communication among academicians and researchers in India.
12.3.1 Objectives of INFLIBNET

The primary objectives of INFLIBNET are:
To promote and establish communication facilities to improve capability in information
transfer and access, that provide support to scholarship, learning, research and academic
pursuit through cooperation and involvement of agencies concerned.
To establish INFLIBNET: Information and Library Network a computer communication
network for linking libraries and information centres in universities, deemed to be universities,
colleges, UGC information centres, institutions of national importance and R & D institutions,
etc., avoiding duplication of efforts.

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