INFLIBNET.
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET)
Centre is an Autonomous Inter-University Centre (IUC) of University Grants
Commission (UGC) involved in creating infrastructure for sharing of library and
information resources and services among Academic and Research Institutions
OBJECTIVE
AND FUNCTIONS
— The
primary objectives of INFLIBNET as envisaged in Memorandum of Association 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. to promote and implement computerization of
operations and services in the libraries and information centres of the
country, following a uniform standard;
— to
evolve standards and uniform guidelines in techniques, methods, procedures,
computer hardware and software, services and promote their adoption in actual
practice by all libraries, in order to facilitate pooling, sharing and exchange
of information towards optimal use of resources and facilities:
— to
evolve a national network interconnecting various libraries and information
centres in the country and to improve capability in information handling and
service;
— to
provide reliable access to document collection of libraries by creating on-line
union catalogue of serials, theses/ dissertations, books, monographs and
non-book materials (manuscripts, audio-visuals, computer data, multimedia,
etc.) in various libraries in India:
— to
provide access to bibliographic information sources with citations, abstracts,
etc. through indigenously created databases of the Sectoral Information Centres
of NISSAT, UGC Information Centres, City Networks and such others and by
establishing gateways for on-line accessing of national and international
databases held by national and international information networks and centres
respectively;
— to
develop new methods and techniques for archival of valuable information
available as manuscripts and information documents in difference Indian
languages, in the form of digital images using high density storage media;
— to
optimize information resource utilization through shared cataloguing,
inter-library loan service, catalogue production, collection development and
thus avoiding duplication in acquisition to the extent possible;
— to
enable the users dispersed all over the country, irrespective of location and
distance, to have access to information regarding serials, theses/dissertation,
books, monographic and non-book materials by locating the sources wherefrom
available and to obtain it through the facilities of INFLIBNET and union
catalogue of documents;
— to
create databases of projects, institutions, specialists, etc. for providing
on-line information service;
to
encourage co-operation among libraries, documentation centres and information
centres in the country, so that the resources can be poled for the benefit of
helping the weaker resource centres by stronger ones
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