MAJOR LIBRARY NETWORKS & THEIR SERVICES (INDIA)

 MAJOR LIBRARY NETWORKS & THEIR SERVICES (INDIA)

  •      to advance sharing of assets among the libraries by building up a system of libraries, by gathering, putting away and dispersing data and by offering modernized administrations to the clients.

•        to offer direction to the part libraries on indexing database administrations, flow, obtaining, serials control, online administrations, determination of equipment and programming, and so forth.

•        to arrange endeavors for appropriate gathering improvement and diminish pointless duplication wherever conceivable.

•        to set up a referral focus, to screen as well as encourage list look and keep up a focal online association inventory of books, serials, and non-book materials of all the taking an interesting library.

•        to encourage and advance conveyance of archives physically and mechanically.

•        to create expert bibliographic database of books, serials and non-book materials.

•        to build up a database of undertakings, masters and foundations.

•        to have and keep up electronic and mechanical hardware for quick correspondence of data and conveyance of electronic mail.

•        to organize with other local, national and global systems for the trade of data and archives.

•        To embrace encourage and accommodate the distribution of bulletins/diaries committed to systems administration and sharing of assets.

3. Participation

At display, DELNET has Two Hundred and Forty Three libraries as its individuals, including both institutional and partner institutional individuals: in India 235 and outside India 8.

Charges Details: Following are the expenses points of interest for its individuals

Confirmation Fee : Rs.5,000

Institutional enrollment : Rs.7500/ - every year (For libraries with at least 10,000 book accumulation)

Relate institutional participation : Rs.10,000/ - every year (For libraries with under 10,000 books)

Abroad Institutions : Admission expense : US $100/ -

Yearly Membership expense : US $500/ -

The participation is dynamically expanding and incorporates colleges, political missions, school, government division, establishments and open libraries. A few organizations from far away places like Shimla, Bhopal, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Lucknow and Pondicherry in India have additionally joined DELNET as individuals. DELNET's enrollment has expanded from 103 in Feb'99 to 243 to date (August, 2001).

4. DELNET Activities/Services

(I) Promotion of Database Creation

For powerful systems administration, standard bibliographic information ought to be accessible in machine coherent shape with the libraries. In this way, endeavors were produced using the earliest reference point to advance the institutionalization of databases in the DELNET libraries. Specialists were sent to the libraries to tackles everyday issues. A board of specialists was seeing kept up for this reason. Customary gatherings of the bookkeepers and PC pros were sorted out to talk about common issues and the zones of collaboration. By and by, there have been a few libraries in Delhi that appreciated database creation all alone. However, the act of consistent gatherings for database creation and asset sharing proceed. DELNET gives specialized help to part libraries in the accompanying regions:

•        creation and upkeep of bibliographic databases

•        serials controls

•        user administrations

•        hardware and programming prerequisites

•        union index readiness

•        current mindfulness and SDI administrations

•        authority information accumulation

•        subject profiles development

•        abstracting administrations

•        inter-library credit and client administrations

•        document exchange/duplicating offices

•        access to nearby, national and universal databases

II. Asset Sharing

DELNET spared remote trade worth Rs. 10 million by excusing memberships to outside periodicals amid 1991, 1992 and 1993 through asset sharing. This was predominantly accomplished in the fields of physical science, therapeutic science and farming sciences. It is trusted that in the years to come, DELNET would have the capacity to spare more remote trade for India through sharing of periodical assets. In 1991, a messenger benefit was begun on contract premise will a private office for bury library loaning among the taking an interest libraries yet it was not exceptionally viable. Afterward, DELNET has presented its own particular messenger benefit with the money related help of NIC. The administration is all around utilized.

III. Institutionalization

An institutionalization board of trustees of DELNET has been meeting every once in a while. The institutionalization council considers the accompanying zones:

•        Communication arrange for trading bibliographic information

•        Input yield arrange

•        Bibliographic portrayal: Mandatory and discretionary information components

•        Classification plan and subject headings

•        Thesaurus

•        Authority documents

•        Language contents into roman content

•        Forms of heading

•        Identification numbers, codes and condensing

•        Data contribution for abstracting and ordering

•        Search/order dialect

It was seen that colon arrangement, all-inclusive Decimal order and Dewey Decimal grouping were generally utilized as a part of Indian libraries and along these lines, it would be relatively difficult to force a standard characterization to conspire on all libraries. It was chosen to utilize Dewey Class Number. As seeking by class numbers was finished by not very many curators, it was chosen that the taking part libraries could look by the arrangement numbers or they could pass on such demands to DELNET focal office for vital activity. As to the institutionalization of subject headings and to use DELNET suggests the utilization of LCSM. Particular libraries may utilize extra thesauri that are accessible in each significant teach, for example, sociologies, humanities and science and innovation.

IV. Online databases:

DELNET has around twenty databases accessible online for its clients. These are:

•        Union Catalog of Books : UCF

•        Union Catalog of Books : MARC Format

•        Union List of Current Periodicals

•        Union Catalog of Periodicals

•        Database of Periodic Articles

•        Indian Specialists Database

•        CD-ROM database

•        Union rundown of Video chronicles

•        Union List of Sound Recordings

•        Union List of Newspapers

•        Union List of Serials of Management Libraries

•        Union Catalog of Hindi Books

•        Multilingual Books : Sample database

•        Urdu Manuscripts Database

•        Database of Theses and Dissertations

•        DEVINSA Database

•        Serials : Petroleum and Natural Gas

•        Books-in-Print Database

•        Jain Database

•        Directory of Libraries   

Table gives the DELNET databases and their records:

DELNET DATABSES AND SERVICES

DELNET DATABASES	NUMBER OF RECORDS
	March’96	Dec’97	March’98	Feb’99	Nov’2000
1. Union Catalogue of Books (Record holdings)	1,50,227	2,07,185	39,68,54	4,72,754	7,01,324
2. Union Catalogue of books (MARC) (Record holdings)	-	-	16,000	16,965	20,000
3. Union List of Serials	-	16,000	16,000	16,146	16,497
4. Union Catalogue of Serials	-	3,105	6,935	10,203	10,599
5. Database of Periodical Articles	-	48,605	60,000	1,15,103	1,91,432
6. Specialists Database	-	1,200	2,000	2,000	2,000
7. Multilingual Books (Sample Database)	-	-	-	-	-
8. CD-ROM Database	0	0	138	138	1,064
9. Union List of Video Recording	-	-	-	1,217	1,983
10. Union List of Sound Recording	-	-	-	500	500
11. Urdu Manuscripts Database	-	-	-	210	210
12. Union List of Newspapers	-	-	-	70	70
13. Database of Theses & Dissertations	-	-	-	251	16,587
14. DEVINSA Database	-	-	-	20,000	20,000
15. Union List of Serials, Petroleum & Natural Gas	-	-	-	871	900
16. Union List of Serials : management Libraries	-	-	-	800	800
17. Union Catalogue of Hindi Books	-	-	-	3,000	3,000
18. National Bibliographic Database Pilot Project	-	-	-	30,000

V. The Other Services

Sick Online

DELNET individuals can put their between library advance demands through our ILL online office, which is accessible on the association list of books database. The part asks for show up on the primary server, which are checked by DELNET staff at standard interims and the books are obtained and provided to the asking for library through the dispatch. Photocopying charges for diary articles and so on and messenger charges for sending books to part libraries outside Delhi are additional.

DEL-LISTSERV

DELNET has made a Listserv benefit called DEL-LISTSERV to give the present mindfulness administration to clients and enable the part libraries to get the most recent every day data from the INTERNET consequently as electronic mail. The accompanying listservs have been made and are accessible online through DELNET:

•        Net-happenings – This Listserv evaluates the clients about the most recent new destinations alongside their web addresses on the INTERNET and has ended up being a noteworthy wellspring of data for the clients on the INTERNET.

•        Med-cuts – This therapeutic clippings posting talks about the different points of restorative intrigue like AIDI, disease, and so on and is educational in nature.

•        IFLA – This Listserv enables the clients to get the most recent data from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, which incorporates the issues of worry to library and data experts.

•        LIBJOBS – Through this Listserv, the library experts can discover day by day, the employments/opportunities accessible all through the world.

Book : New Arrivals

This is another administration through web giving a rundown of late distributions in all subjects. The administration covers training, administration and physical sciences. Different subjects can be presented on request.

Book Reviews from INTERNET

This is an INTERNET administration of surveys of most recent distributed books covering diverse subjects. The administration covers in the field of Arts and Music, INTERNET and military history. Now and again, different subjects will come into this overlay.

Current Contents

This administration gives the present substance of the most recent issues of diaries. It is especially helpful for the legitimization of periodicals and assets partaking in part libraries.

File to Hindu

DELNET has begun offering Index to Hindu online to its individuals. Filed news things are accessible on the framework covering distinctive times of the Chennai release. More updates and the documented information is being included into the framework routinely.

Retro-Conversion

DELNET offers retro change offices to the libraries through particular organizations and furthermore encourages the utilization of present-day apparatuses, for example, CD-ROMs and online offices for retro-transformation.

Referral Services

DELNET keeps up a referral focus that gives reference offices to taking part libraries. The referral focus likewise cares for the entrance to the local databases and screens access to universal databases.

Report Transfer/Copy offices

DELNET gives the office to exchanging or replicating of the records to its clients.

Preparing Programs

DELNET conducts preparing programs in the utilization of DELNET administrations, programming, E-mail, AACR II and LC subject headings, Internet, and so on every now and then. Data about future preparing programs is accessible on ask.

Addresses and Workshops

DELNET sorts out addresses by systems administration pros working in various parts of the world. The addresses are available to individuals, masters, and clients when all is said in done. DELNET additionally sorts out national workshops, classes and meets on library organizing every now and then. DELNET had composed National Annual tradition on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN) in 1998 and 1999.

Bulletin

DELNET distributes a bulletin keeping in mind the end goal to spread the message and increment the mindfulness about library organizing in India. Through this Newsletter, DELNET conveys to its individuals the advance, it is making in different fields. The Newsletter is additionally a gathering of correspondence on the advances, accomplishments, and requirements of the libraries and their administrations.

VI. Web

•        Electronic Mail

DELNET gives RENNICK Email office to its part libraries, which is presented by National Informatics Center. This gives them access to both national and global E-mail clients and furthermore to INTERNET clients. DELNET Email achieves the libraries, organizations and people in India and in addition abroad having E-mail association. Email is being utilized for correspondence between establishments as well as for between library-credit demands.

Membership rates for E-sends are as per the following:

RENNIC of NIC : Rs. 2750/ - every year for 5 MB information exchange

•        Full INTERNET (TCP/IP) network

DELNET is giving full INTERNET SLIP/PPP dial-up access at a concessional rate of Rs. 8,500/ - per annum for Rs. 500 hours of interface time through NIC to the part libraries. Additionally, the shell account office for INTERNET get to is accessible for Rs.4,000 per annum for 500 hrs of associate time. Various DELNET part libraries are as of now benefiting these offices. These rates are liable to change by NIC.

•        Web Page

DELNET has a site page (http://www.delnet.nic.in/) on the INTERNET . This empowers all INTERNET clients the world over to think about DELNET and its exercises. The site page additionally incorporates a rundown of Member-libraries alongside their E-mail addresses. The Web page is being refreshed now and again.

VII Products

•        DELSIS

A noteworthy leap forward has been accomplished by DELNET with the dispatch of DELSIS, a capable library organizing programming. DELSIS (DELNET System for Information Services) is a coordinated measured framework, which underpins DELNET online databases.

It has been created by DELNET on a Relational Database administration System called BASIC furthermore, a result of Information Dimension Inc. of USA, which has been given to DELNET civility National Informatics Center, New Delhi. It handles the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) as well as has the managerial devices for working up the association inventories on BASISplus. It gives capable and broad offices to online inquiries for books, serials, personal insights about the experts and backings the inventorying of books in Indian dialects.

Highlights of DELSIS:

- DELSIS is an easy to understand menu driven bundle

- Its adaptable choices enable the clients to recover the data rapidly.

- It contains the modules for Online Public Access Catalog and also the modules for the production of databases e.g. expansion, cancellation, embeddings of records and so on.

- The Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) parts of DELSIS can address the issues of the clients, regardless of whether the client has little PC encounter or knows about utilizing PCs to perform different library undertakings.

•        DEL-WINDOWS

DELNET has discharged the DEL-WINDOWS rendition 1.0 after the fruitful creation and execution of DELSIS Unix form. It is an effective apparatus for making and recovering bibliographic databases and lists.

DEL-WINDOWS can change over the straightforward PC into a capable administration data framework. A portion of the notable highlights are:

- It is basic and simple to utilize. The amateur library experts and end clients can communicate with the product with no earlier preparing.

- It is easy to use with satisfactory windows-menus for information contributing and look capacities.

- It gives the choice to make the bibliographic records either utilizing ECF or the MARC organize.

•        DEAL SEARCH

DELNET has opened another part in the data recovery strategy by contriving another database get to instrument through DEAL SEARCH. It is a disconnected remote database get to the framework through E-mail. It is the first of its kind and is the most sparing and easy to use remote database get to the framework. It helps foundations, data authorities, look into researchers, administrators and clients inspired by lists of sources and instructional exercise data on South Asia. It enables them to look through the DELNET association inventories through E-mail and is an awesome device for explore researchers. The product is created on UNIX stage and enables the clients to send their pursuit asks for through E-mail. When the inquiry is gotten by the framework as an E-mail, the individual databases are scanned for the question word and the outcomes have come back to the recipient promptly. The looking of the database does not require any human intercession and the hunts are finished by the framework consequently.

5. The Future of DELNET

The fate of DELNET is extremely encouraging. Its participation with India and outside India will take a quantum bounce. The DELNET databases are developing in number and estimate and as an assortment of data on South Asia is getting to be accessible through DELNET, it is normal that all foundations outside India represent considerable authority in South Asian examinations to take DELNET participation. DELNET databases will be open through INTERNET which will made availability quick. Web clients in India are expanding and it will build DELNET nearness in various parts of India. DELNET has just made programming, viz. DELDOS and DEL-WINDOWS for making MARC records.

These products will so on be created to perform library activities also. There advancements are probably going to give more income to DELNET and give support to an ever-increasing number of libraries to join DELNET. As an asset, it is trusted the DELNET will become quicker as an administration based asset sharing model in India.

i) CALIBLINK :

A unique element of CALIBNET is the Caliblink, an email availability (from its ERNET center) introduced and working fine at four organizations.

(iii) Institutional Resources Development Services :

A portion of the key institutional assets improvement administrations offered are:

(a) Retrospective change of existing card inventory in libraries into mechanized neighborhood databases by means of electronic mode by down stacking from global databases;

(b) Consultative administrations on LIS mechanization

(c) Manpower advancement for working and keeping an eye on robotized LIS condition through an extensive variety of reviewed preparing programs, and modified courses for people or gathering at customer's site.

(iv) SANJUKTA and PARAPAR Software

SANJUKTA

A multi-client stockpiling and recovery programming has been created in-house to help CALIBNET's Centralized Database and to give online access from remote areas. SANJUKTA has been composed and actualized by A Mukhopadhyay, Technical Consultant, CALIBNET and his partners in light of MOD+, a product he grew before to help the administration of little/medium-measure libraries.The programming has been created, utilizing 4 GL Code and intended to give the client alternatives and adaptability in producing records, sorting out and seeking data seeing the hunt yields, and trading information documents with outside databases with minimum manual impedance.

PARAPAR

A change programming bundle, PARAPAR has been produced in CALIBNET to help exchange of bibliographic information between USMARC, UNIMARC and CCF Files and furthermore from non-standard arrangements to standard ones. Its essential target is to change over information records, got from the partaking libraries in variation groups, into an ISO-2709 agreeable execution through which the documents are converted into the incorporated Database of CALIBNET.

(v) Guidelines for Implementation of UNIMARC

It has been brought out by CALIBNET to furnish the library experts in India with a working apparatus for building up their databases in a commonly interchangeable arrangement. The report has been set up in 1994, in light of UNIMARC Manual (1987), by A Mukhopadhyay, Technical Consultant, under a venture supported by the National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. The rules have made an endeavor to deal with the exceptional prerequisites of the Indian libraries. They are required to serve the Indian libraries in overhauling their databases to the global standard.