DELNET was started at the India International Centre Library in January 1988 and was registered as a
society in 1992. It was initially supported by the National Information System
for Science and Technology (NISSAT), Department of Scientific and Industrial
Reseach, Government of India. It was subsequently supported by the
National Informatics Centre,
Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology, Government of India and Ministry of Culture,
Government of India.
DELNET has been established with the prime objective of promoting resource
sharing among the libraries through the development of a network of libraries.
It aims to collect, store, and disseminate information besides offering
computerised services to users, to coordinate efforts for suitable collection
development and also to reduce unnecessary duplication wherever possible.
DELNET has been actively engaged with the compilation of various Union
Catalogues of the resources available in member-libraries.It has already
created the Union Catalogue of Books,Union List of Current Periodicals, Union
Catalogue of Periodicals,CD-ROM Database,Database of Indian Specialists,
Database of Periodical Articles, Union List of Video Recordings, Urdu
Manuscripts' Database, Database of Theses and Dissertations,
sample databases of language publications using GIST technology and several
other databases. The data is being updated in each of these databases and is
growing rapidly. All the DELNET databases have been resident on DELSIS, an
in-house software developed on BASISPlus, an RDBMS, the product of Information
Dimensions Inc. of USA which has been provided to DELNET courtesy National
Informatics Centre, New Delhi.
DELNET provides an array of facilities including E-mail to its
member-libraries including both institutional and associate institutional
members. DELNET'S relentless efforts in resource sharing have proved extremely
effective. It has indeed been a big leap towards the modernisation of
libraries in India.
Governing Board Members: 2010-2012
| 1. |
Dr. S. Varadarajan |
President |
| 2. |
Dr. S. S. Murthy |
Vice-President |
| 3. |
Dr. H.K. Kaul |
Director |
| 4. |
Dr. Harish
Chandra, Librarian, IITM, Chennai |
Treasurer |
| 5. |
Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
Member |
| 6. |
Chairman, All India
Council for Technical Education, New Delhi |
Member |
| 7. |
Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Culture, New Delhi |
Member |
| 8. |
Director-General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi |
Member |
| 9. |
Secretary,
Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi |
Member |
| 10. |
Joint Secretary,
Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and
Information Technology, New Delhi |
Member |
| 11. |
Mr. E. Ramesh,
Librarian, Malla Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Secunderabad |
Member |
| 12. |
Dr. S. V. Raghavan,
Scientific Secretary, Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, New Delhi |
Special Invitee |
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