INFLIINEI Newsletter(A Quarterly Publication of Information and Library Network Centre UGC)

Vol 7 No1 January-March 2001

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This is my first communication to you after taking over thecharge of office of the Director of INFLIBNET Centre Withyour support and co-operation r will strive hard to meet thegoals and objectives for which this Centre was created I wouldlike to put on record the contributions made by Shri PramodKumar Former Director of this Centre in nurturing the Centrein its nascent period

In the last week of January many parts of Gujarat weredevastated by earthquake We were forced to postponeCALIBER -middot2001 by a month In spite of this postponementthere was an overwhelming response to this conventionwhichwas a great success

A number of new services are planned by INFLIBNET forits users Their impact will surely be felt in time to comeExchange of ideas is important for progress Let us interactmore frequently using the NET

S M SalgarActiIig Director

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Since its launching at Chennai during CALIBER-2000 the SOUL has received an overwhelmingresponse from all types of libraries There havebeen number of enquiries from allover the countryrequesting for supply of SOUL So far this softwarehas been successfully-installed in 27 institutions Thelist of these institution is given below in chronologi-cal order

Sr Name or University Installation~o Training PeriodI North tvIahalastra March 16-20

University Jalgaon 2000

I Amravati University May 29-June 5_

I Amravati 2000

I 1orth Gujarat University May 29-June 3)

Patan 20004 University of Mumbai June 6-11 2000

Bombay5 M S University July 24-29 2000

Vadodara6 Sauralra University July 24-29 2000

Rajkot7 Kakatiya University July 30-31 2000

Warangal8 Central Institute of July 31-August 5

Engl ish amp Fore ign 2000Languages (CIEFl)Hyderabad

9 Bangalore University JLIly 3 I-August 5Bangalore 2000

10 Banasthal i Vidyapith July 31-August 5Rajasthan 2000

II Assam Uniwrsitv July 31-August 5J

Silchar 200012 Uniersity of 1adras August 8-14

Chennai 200013 Mahatma Gandhi August 8-12

University Kottayam 2000I-t Uniwrity oJ Calcutta August 8-12

Kollatta 2000

I15 Oevi Ahilva Un iersi tv August 8-12

Indore 2000

16 Bhavnagar University September 11-16Bhavnagar 2000

17 Sri Krishna Devraya September 18-13UniversityAnanthpur 2000

18 Indira Kala Sangeet October 10-15Viswavidyalaya 2000Khairagarh

19 Thapar Institute of November 13-18Engineering amp 2000Technology Patiala

20 Institute of Advanced November 13-18Study in Science amp 2000Technology Gauhati

21 Global November 27-Tclecommun icat ions December ISystems Pune 2000

22 Manamoniam January 2-6Sundarnar University 2001Tri unel vel i

j Gandhigram Rural January 2-6_J

Institute Gandhigram 200124 Gujarat Ayurvecl January 3-4

University Jumnagarmiddot 200125 NTR University of January 15-21

Health Sciences 2001Vijayaviada

26 Avinashlingam Institute January 8-13for Home Science amp 2001Higher Eduation forWomen Coimbatorc

27 Alagappa University January 8-13Karaikudy 2001

A team consi-ting oftVo Scientists from INFLIBNETvisited all these insti tutions successfully installedthe SOUL and imparted an extensive training for sixdays to the core staff of the libraries They also tooKthis opportunity to demonstrate the software to J largenumber or librarians from the respective citie

Now more than 30 institutions have placed ordersfor SOUL and the installation in all these places isbeing planned

SOULmiddot SinglelJser Version

To meet the growing demand for single user (standalone) version of SOUL at an affordable costINFLIBNET has come out with another version ofSOUL to work on Windows 9598 platform Thisversion is being tested and will be ready for releaseby end of April 2001 Cost of this version will beRs I5000-

INFLIBNET has launched yet another forum caliedSOUL User Forum to facilitate the SOUL usersspread allover the coulitry to come together anddiscuss the problems with INFLIBNET The first usermeeting under this forum was held at Pune on 15thMarch 200 I co-inciding with CALIBER-200 IThis was attended by more than 50 persons whichincluded existing and prospective users of SOULThe one and half hour discussion addressed allthe major issues relating to SOUL Director andtechnical staff of INFLIBNET Centre activelyparticipated and guided the discussion It isproposed to hold such meetings frequently to addressthe problems faced by SOUL users

Cost of the multi-user versIOn of SOUL (firstcopy) is Rs50000- This includes SOUL onCD comprehensive manual multi-lingual inter-face software installation and extensive on-sitetraining for six days and one year warranty Thisprice has been approved by the Governing Board

of the INFLIBNET and was announced duringCALIBER-2000 at Chennai Recently number oflibraries showed keen interest in purchasing morethan one copy of SOUL and many colleges and smalllibraries requested for the single user versionKeeping in view the growing demand forSOULJollowing prices have fixed

SOUL multi user version for second undsubsequent copies - Rs 20000 ( percopy)

(This coverS only SOUL on CD and Usermanual) + actual cost of multilingualinterface

bull SOUL Single User Version - RS15000-(SOUL CD and Manual)

For more details please write to theDirector INFLIBNET Centre

The eighth national convention CALIBER-200 I

was successfully held in collaboration with lnivcr-sity of Pune Pune from March 15-16 200 I Themain theme of this convention was Creation andManagement of Digital Resources The main themer- t

was divided into following sub themes

~ Acquisition and Archiving of DigitalResources

The convention was inaugurated by Dr Vijay PBhatkar the former Executive Director of C-DACPune who also delivered a key note address onthis occasion More than 250 delegates from

different parts of the country attended thisconvention There were in all 84 papers presentedby the respective authors The pre-convelltionvolume covering full text of 39 selected papers andabstracts of 45 papers on the above theme wasbrought out and distributed to delegates Prof R GTakwale the former vice chancellor of IGNOU wasthe chief guest for the valedictory function who alsoaddressed the delegates Two pre-conventiontutorials on Development of Databases in IndianLanguages and Metadata were conducted on14th March 2001 which were we]] attended Duringthe valedictory function number of resolutions havebeen passed which are being taken up byINFLIBNET for implementation

INFLIBNET staff frequently visits the universitylibraries covered under the programne to attend tothe technical problems and guide them inautomation database creation etc During the periodJanuary-March 2001 INFLIBNET staff visited thefollowing universities This is in addition to theuniversities where visits for SOUL installation andtraining were made

4 National Law School of India UniversityBangalore

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRDlGovt of India visualize~ building UIY of a natioilaldatabase of library holdings in the country Alllibraries are expected to contribute their data to thisnational database For putting this plan into actionMHRD desires that all libraries in the country shouldfollow a uniform standard for data entry ASub-Group was set up by MHRD to identi fy afOllllat for this purpose The Sub - Group hasrecommended that MARC 2] format be followednow onwards for data entry in libraries The mainreason for preferring MARC 2 lover CCF and otherfonnats was that most of the countries in the worlduse MARC and it is comprehensive having lll)mberof fields Also there is a constant developmenttaking place in MARC 21 and is updated regularlywheteas CCF has become stagnant With MARC 2 Ibased national database it will be easier to exchangedata with other countries

The Sub - Group also advised INFLIBNET Centreto adopt MARC 21 and inform all universitylibraries about this decision and to ask them to useMARC 21 Accordingly all libraries covered underINFLIBNET are advised to start using MARC21For libraries usingSOUL software there is no causefor any alarm over this decision INFLIBNETCentre has already developed an interface softwarefor exporting data from SOUL to MARC 21incorporating all primary fields identified by theSub-Group We have already initiated work ondeveloping another interface for importing data fromMARC 21 to SOUL This development is expectedto be over by end of Apri I 200 I Both theseinterfaces will be provided to SOUL users Then weintend to develop next version of SOUL totally basedon MARC 2 I Till the second version of SOUL isdevelopedlibraries having SOUL can continue to

use it and use the interface for converting SOUL datato MARC 2]

For detailed infoll11ation on MARC 21 please visitURL httpwwwlcweblocgov

As a part of its continued support to the universitylibraries for modernisation under INFLIBNETprogramme UGC has sanctioned non-recurring grantof Rs65 lakhs each to the following 19 universitiesThis grant has been released during last part ofMarch 2001 With this tl1e total number ofuniversities covered under the INFLIBNET goes upto 142 These 19 universities are

Sr No Name of UniversityI Bharathiar University Coimbatore2 Chatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

Kanpur3 Chaudhry Charan Singh University

Meerut4 Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur5 Kannada University Kamalapura6 Kameshwar Singh Darbhangha

Sanskrit University Darbhangha7 Mahatma Gandhi Gramoday

Vishwavidyalay Chitrakoot~ Maulana Azad National Urdu

University Hyderabad9 Mother Teresa Womens University

Kodaikanal]0 Patti Sriramulu Telugu University

HyderabadII Sampurnanand Sanskrit

Vishwavidyalaya Varanasi12 Sri Padmavathi Mahila

Vishwavidyalayarn Tirupati13 S-vami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada

University Nanded14 The Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar

University Lucknow

15 Tilak Maharastra Vidyapith Pune16 Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher

Learning Prasanthinilayam17 Jain Vishva Bharati Ladnun18 Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapith

Tirupati

19 Bharati Vidyapith Pune

This grant has been provided for creating thenecessary infrastructure in each library forcomputerisation and LAN These libraries wi IIprocllre computers operating system RDBMS SOUL - Library Management Software and otherperipherals using this initial grant and initiate thecomputerisation work These universities will alsobe supported for the first five years with a recurringgrant to meet the salary of Information Scientist(a post created specially to take care of INFLIBNETprogramme implementation at respectiveuniversities)data entry work including retrospectiveconversion telephone charges consumables andmaintenance charges

All the 19 libraries funded underthe programme willhave to sipoundn a Memorandum of Understandinpound and~ ~follow the guidelines with respect to database creationand automation recommended by INFUBNETTheselibraries will also have to use SOULdevelopedby INFUBNET for library automation

To address various issues involved approaclies [0 beadopted and to promote better understanding of the

total responsibility of implementation INFUBNETCentre is organising a separate workshop atAhmedabad from June 25-July 1200 I for the Headsof libraries of these participating universities

NISSAThas approved an invited projHt onDevelopment and Managing a Web enabled

Now more than 30 institutions have placed ordersfor SOUL and the installation in all these places isbeing planned

SOULmiddot SinglelJser Version

To meet the growing demand for single user (standalone) version of SOUL at an affordable costINFLIBNET has come out with another version ofSOUL to work on Windows 9598 platform Thisversion is being tested and will be ready for releaseby end of April 2001 Cost of this version will beRs I5000-

INFLIBNET has launched yet another forum caliedSOUL User Forum to facilitate the SOUL usersspread allover the coulitry to come together anddiscuss the problems with INFLIBNET The first usermeeting under this forum was held at Pune on 15thMarch 200 I co-inciding with CALIBER-200 IThis was attended by more than 50 persons whichincluded existing and prospective users of SOULThe one and half hour discussion addressed allthe major issues relating to SOUL Director andtechnical staff of INFLIBNET Centre activelyparticipated and guided the discussion It isproposed to hold such meetings frequently to addressthe problems faced by SOUL users

Cost of the multi-user versIOn of SOUL (firstcopy) is Rs50000- This includes SOUL onCD comprehensive manual multi-lingual inter-face software installation and extensive on-sitetraining for six days and one year warranty Thisprice has been approved by the Governing Board

of the INFLIBNET and was announced duringCALIBER-2000 at Chennai Recently number oflibraries showed keen interest in purchasing morethan one copy of SOUL and many colleges and smalllibraries requested for the single user versionKeeping in view the growing demand forSOULJollowing prices have fixed

SOUL multi user version for second undsubsequent copies - Rs 20000 ( percopy)

(This coverS only SOUL on CD and Usermanual) + actual cost of multilingualinterface

bull SOUL Single User Version - RS15000-(SOUL CD and Manual)

For more details please write to theDirector INFLIBNET Centre

The eighth national convention CALIBER-200 I

was successfully held in collaboration with lnivcr-sity of Pune Pune from March 15-16 200 I Themain theme of this convention was Creation andManagement of Digital Resources The main themer- t

was divided into following sub themes

~ Acquisition and Archiving of DigitalResources

The convention was inaugurated by Dr Vijay PBhatkar the former Executive Director of C-DACPune who also delivered a key note address onthis occasion More than 250 delegates from

different parts of the country attended thisconvention There were in all 84 papers presentedby the respective authors The pre-convelltionvolume covering full text of 39 selected papers andabstracts of 45 papers on the above theme wasbrought out and distributed to delegates Prof R GTakwale the former vice chancellor of IGNOU wasthe chief guest for the valedictory function who alsoaddressed the delegates Two pre-conventiontutorials on Development of Databases in IndianLanguages and Metadata were conducted on14th March 2001 which were we]] attended Duringthe valedictory function number of resolutions havebeen passed which are being taken up byINFLIBNET for implementation

INFLIBNET staff frequently visits the universitylibraries covered under the programne to attend tothe technical problems and guide them inautomation database creation etc During the periodJanuary-March 2001 INFLIBNET staff visited thefollowing universities This is in addition to theuniversities where visits for SOUL installation andtraining were made

4 National Law School of India UniversityBangalore

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRDlGovt of India visualize~ building UIY of a natioilaldatabase of library holdings in the country Alllibraries are expected to contribute their data to thisnational database For putting this plan into actionMHRD desires that all libraries in the country shouldfollow a uniform standard for data entry ASub-Group was set up by MHRD to identi fy afOllllat for this purpose The Sub - Group hasrecommended that MARC 2] format be followednow onwards for data entry in libraries The mainreason for preferring MARC 2 lover CCF and otherfonnats was that most of the countries in the worlduse MARC and it is comprehensive having lll)mberof fields Also there is a constant developmenttaking place in MARC 21 and is updated regularlywheteas CCF has become stagnant With MARC 2 Ibased national database it will be easier to exchangedata with other countries

The Sub - Group also advised INFLIBNET Centreto adopt MARC 21 and inform all universitylibraries about this decision and to ask them to useMARC 21 Accordingly all libraries covered underINFLIBNET are advised to start using MARC21For libraries usingSOUL software there is no causefor any alarm over this decision INFLIBNETCentre has already developed an interface softwarefor exporting data from SOUL to MARC 21incorporating all primary fields identified by theSub-Group We have already initiated work ondeveloping another interface for importing data fromMARC 21 to SOUL This development is expectedto be over by end of Apri I 200 I Both theseinterfaces will be provided to SOUL users Then weintend to develop next version of SOUL totally basedon MARC 2 I Till the second version of SOUL isdevelopedlibraries having SOUL can continue to

use it and use the interface for converting SOUL datato MARC 2]

For detailed infoll11ation on MARC 21 please visitURL httpwwwlcweblocgov

As a part of its continued support to the universitylibraries for modernisation under INFLIBNETprogramme UGC has sanctioned non-recurring grantof Rs65 lakhs each to the following 19 universitiesThis grant has been released during last part ofMarch 2001 With this tl1e total number ofuniversities covered under the INFLIBNET goes upto 142 These 19 universities are

Sr No Name of UniversityI Bharathiar University Coimbatore2 Chatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

Kanpur3 Chaudhry Charan Singh University

Meerut4 Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur5 Kannada University Kamalapura6 Kameshwar Singh Darbhangha

Sanskrit University Darbhangha7 Mahatma Gandhi Gramoday

Vishwavidyalay Chitrakoot~ Maulana Azad National Urdu

University Hyderabad9 Mother Teresa Womens University

Kodaikanal]0 Patti Sriramulu Telugu University

HyderabadII Sampurnanand Sanskrit

Vishwavidyalaya Varanasi12 Sri Padmavathi Mahila

Vishwavidyalayarn Tirupati13 S-vami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada

University Nanded14 The Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar

University Lucknow

15 Tilak Maharastra Vidyapith Pune16 Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher

Learning Prasanthinilayam17 Jain Vishva Bharati Ladnun18 Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapith

Tirupati

19 Bharati Vidyapith Pune

This grant has been provided for creating thenecessary infrastructure in each library forcomputerisation and LAN These libraries wi IIprocllre computers operating system RDBMS SOUL - Library Management Software and otherperipherals using this initial grant and initiate thecomputerisation work These universities will alsobe supported for the first five years with a recurringgrant to meet the salary of Information Scientist(a post created specially to take care of INFLIBNETprogramme implementation at respectiveuniversities)data entry work including retrospectiveconversion telephone charges consumables andmaintenance charges

All the 19 libraries funded underthe programme willhave to sipoundn a Memorandum of Understandinpound and~ ~follow the guidelines with respect to database creationand automation recommended by INFUBNETTheselibraries will also have to use SOULdevelopedby INFUBNET for library automation

To address various issues involved approaclies [0 beadopted and to promote better understanding of the

total responsibility of implementation INFUBNETCentre is organising a separate workshop atAhmedabad from June 25-July 1200 I for the Headsof libraries of these participating universities

NISSAThas approved an invited projHt onDevelopment and Managing a Web enabled

different parts of the country attended thisconvention There were in all 84 papers presentedby the respective authors The pre-convelltionvolume covering full text of 39 selected papers andabstracts of 45 papers on the above theme wasbrought out and distributed to delegates Prof R GTakwale the former vice chancellor of IGNOU wasthe chief guest for the valedictory function who alsoaddressed the delegates Two pre-conventiontutorials on Development of Databases in IndianLanguages and Metadata were conducted on14th March 2001 which were we]] attended Duringthe valedictory function number of resolutions havebeen passed which are being taken up byINFLIBNET for implementation

INFLIBNET staff frequently visits the universitylibraries covered under the programne to attend tothe technical problems and guide them inautomation database creation etc During the periodJanuary-March 2001 INFLIBNET staff visited thefollowing universities This is in addition to theuniversities where visits for SOUL installation andtraining were made

4 National Law School of India UniversityBangalore

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRDlGovt of India visualize~ building UIY of a natioilaldatabase of library holdings in the country Alllibraries are expected to contribute their data to thisnational database For putting this plan into actionMHRD desires that all libraries in the country shouldfollow a uniform standard for data entry ASub-Group was set up by MHRD to identi fy afOllllat for this purpose The Sub - Group hasrecommended that MARC 2] format be followednow onwards for data entry in libraries The mainreason for preferring MARC 2 lover CCF and otherfonnats was that most of the countries in the worlduse MARC and it is comprehensive having lll)mberof fields Also there is a constant developmenttaking place in MARC 21 and is updated regularlywheteas CCF has become stagnant With MARC 2 Ibased national database it will be easier to exchangedata with other countries

The Sub - Group also advised INFLIBNET Centreto adopt MARC 21 and inform all universitylibraries about this decision and to ask them to useMARC 21 Accordingly all libraries covered underINFLIBNET are advised to start using MARC21For libraries usingSOUL software there is no causefor any alarm over this decision INFLIBNETCentre has already developed an interface softwarefor exporting data from SOUL to MARC 21incorporating all primary fields identified by theSub-Group We have already initiated work ondeveloping another interface for importing data fromMARC 21 to SOUL This development is expectedto be over by end of Apri I 200 I Both theseinterfaces will be provided to SOUL users Then weintend to develop next version of SOUL totally basedon MARC 2 I Till the second version of SOUL isdevelopedlibraries having SOUL can continue to

use it and use the interface for converting SOUL datato MARC 2]

For detailed infoll11ation on MARC 21 please visitURL httpwwwlcweblocgov

As a part of its continued support to the universitylibraries for modernisation under INFLIBNETprogramme UGC has sanctioned non-recurring grantof Rs65 lakhs each to the following 19 universitiesThis grant has been released during last part ofMarch 2001 With this tl1e total number ofuniversities covered under the INFLIBNET goes upto 142 These 19 universities are

Sr No Name of UniversityI Bharathiar University Coimbatore2 Chatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

Kanpur3 Chaudhry Charan Singh University

Meerut4 Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur5 Kannada University Kamalapura6 Kameshwar Singh Darbhangha

Sanskrit University Darbhangha7 Mahatma Gandhi Gramoday

Vishwavidyalay Chitrakoot~ Maulana Azad National Urdu

University Hyderabad9 Mother Teresa Womens University

Kodaikanal]0 Patti Sriramulu Telugu University

HyderabadII Sampurnanand Sanskrit

Vishwavidyalaya Varanasi12 Sri Padmavathi Mahila

Vishwavidyalayarn Tirupati13 S-vami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada

University Nanded14 The Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar

University Lucknow

15 Tilak Maharastra Vidyapith Pune16 Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher

Learning Prasanthinilayam17 Jain Vishva Bharati Ladnun18 Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapith

Tirupati

19 Bharati Vidyapith Pune

This grant has been provided for creating thenecessary infrastructure in each library forcomputerisation and LAN These libraries wi IIprocllre computers operating system RDBMS SOUL - Library Management Software and otherperipherals using this initial grant and initiate thecomputerisation work These universities will alsobe supported for the first five years with a recurringgrant to meet the salary of Information Scientist(a post created specially to take care of INFLIBNETprogramme implementation at respectiveuniversities)data entry work including retrospectiveconversion telephone charges consumables andmaintenance charges

All the 19 libraries funded underthe programme willhave to sipoundn a Memorandum of Understandinpound and~ ~follow the guidelines with respect to database creationand automation recommended by INFUBNETTheselibraries will also have to use SOULdevelopedby INFUBNET for library automation

To address various issues involved approaclies [0 beadopted and to promote better understanding of the

total responsibility of implementation INFUBNETCentre is organising a separate workshop atAhmedabad from June 25-July 1200 I for the Headsof libraries of these participating universities

NISSAThas approved an invited projHt onDevelopment and Managing a Web enabled

use it and use the interface for converting SOUL datato MARC 2]

For detailed infoll11ation on MARC 21 please visitURL httpwwwlcweblocgov

As a part of its continued support to the universitylibraries for modernisation under INFLIBNETprogramme UGC has sanctioned non-recurring grantof Rs65 lakhs each to the following 19 universitiesThis grant has been released during last part ofMarch 2001 With this tl1e total number ofuniversities covered under the INFLIBNET goes upto 142 These 19 universities are

Sr No Name of UniversityI Bharathiar University Coimbatore2 Chatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

Kanpur3 Chaudhry Charan Singh University

Meerut4 Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur5 Kannada University Kamalapura6 Kameshwar Singh Darbhangha

Sanskrit University Darbhangha7 Mahatma Gandhi Gramoday

Vishwavidyalay Chitrakoot~ Maulana Azad National Urdu

University Hyderabad9 Mother Teresa Womens University

Kodaikanal]0 Patti Sriramulu Telugu University

HyderabadII Sampurnanand Sanskrit

Vishwavidyalaya Varanasi12 Sri Padmavathi Mahila

Vishwavidyalayarn Tirupati13 S-vami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada

University Nanded14 The Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar

University Lucknow

15 Tilak Maharastra Vidyapith Pune16 Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher

Learning Prasanthinilayam17 Jain Vishva Bharati Ladnun18 Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapith

Tirupati

19 Bharati Vidyapith Pune

This grant has been provided for creating thenecessary infrastructure in each library forcomputerisation and LAN These libraries wi IIprocllre computers operating system RDBMS SOUL - Library Management Software and otherperipherals using this initial grant and initiate thecomputerisation work These universities will alsobe supported for the first five years with a recurringgrant to meet the salary of Information Scientist(a post created specially to take care of INFLIBNETprogramme implementation at respectiveuniversities)data entry work including retrospectiveconversion telephone charges consumables andmaintenance charges

All the 19 libraries funded underthe programme willhave to sipoundn a Memorandum of Understandinpound and~ ~follow the guidelines with respect to database creationand automation recommended by INFUBNETTheselibraries will also have to use SOULdevelopedby INFUBNET for library automation

To address various issues involved approaclies [0 beadopted and to promote better understanding of the

total responsibility of implementation INFUBNETCentre is organising a separate workshop atAhmedabad from June 25-July 1200 I for the Headsof libraries of these participating universities

NISSAThas approved an invited projHt onDevelopment and Managing a Web enabled

Database of Expert Manpower in the area ofScience and Technology submitted by INFLIBNETThis is a two-year project and INFLIBNET wIll beresp~nsibJe for the development and maintenance ofthedatabase

The coverage of database will be very wide It willcover faculty members andmiddot researchers from allIndian universities including deemed universitiesNational laboratories R amp D Institutions Scienceand Technology Departments of Central and Stategovernments Editorial Board members of S amp Tperiodicals Fellows of scientific academies andwinners of Science and Technology awards etc

INFLIBNET will adopt latest technology indesigning the database and make it available foronline access over the Internet The information inthe dMabase will contain name and address ofexpert with hisher academic and researchachievements and areas of specialisation Thedatabase wi II be loaded on the Vigyan Server locatedat NCSL Bangalore Apart from online version itwill be available in different format viz print andCD-ROM etc Separate search option will enable theuser to retrieve the information under all importantsearch terms This is a joint effol1 of INFLIBNETand NISSAT for promoting the content on theInternet Having expertise in developing similardatabases INFLIBNET hopes to complete thisproject in the stipulated period

Banasthali Vidyapith is a unique centre for

learning from nursery to post-graduate stage

offering modern educatio~1 to girls without

ltacrificing Indias basic cultural tradition and

values Some of its significant aspects are its

harmonious synthesis of the spiritual and scientific

values of the East and the West It has developed

on the principle of program education likePanchmukhi Shiksha consisting of physicalpracticalaesthetic and varied range of cocurricular activities

The Vidyapith was established in 1935 by PanditHiralal Shastri former Chief Minister of RajasthanThe Vidyapith became a deemed university in theyear 1983 Today it is the only fully residential

university for women education in the country which aims at developing all around personality of womenstudents As a centre for women education theVidyapith recogniZes the identity of women to leadsociety and to bear the responsibilities of their homesand the nation

Today the Central Library and faculty libraries have

a total of 162319 books and other non-book

materials The library collection includes 10000backvolumes 515 theses and dissertations and a few

thousand miscellaneous items (albums charts maps

pamphlets etc) The Library collection pertains to

various departmentssubjects for which the Vidyapith

conducts post-graduate courses on the campus It is

particularly strong in Indological subjects and

subjects like Economics Politicl Science English

Hindi Sanskrit Education as vvell as subjects of

sciences like Mathematics COI1-puter Science and

Electronics Biotechnology Home Science andChemistry The Library collection is equally strong

in Visual Arts Textile Designing Gandhina and

Women Studies The Central Library runs three

faculty libraries These are Faculty of Education

Faculty of Management and Apaji Institute of

Mathematics The Central Library has been

functioning as leading resource centre of theVidyapith The Central Library subscribes to 600current journ~lls in the subjects which are covered

at the Vidyapith Today there are 2000 members ofthe library

The Library has been serving various componentsof the Vidyapith community viz faculty studentsand staff towards fulfillment of the objectives TheCentral Library of the Vidyapith is kept open from800AM to 700 PM on all working days of the yearIt remains open from 1000 AM to 600 PM on Tuesday and holidays The library provides reading andlending facilities inter library loan referenceservice bibliographical and photocopying servicesThe library catalogue records have been preparedwith great care according to AACR II and books

are classified according to Devey DecimalClassification For assigning the subject headingsSears List and LC Subject Headings are used Thelibrary provides full biblioglaphical information of the documents

The work of automation of the library functions andservices wele initiated iri the year 2000 with thepurchase and installation of 6 computersone serverand SOUL software These computers are used todevelop in-house computer database of books andperiodicals The library has created 10000 recordsof books in machine readable format and areplanning to create periodicals and dissertation recordsin machine readable format It is to be noted that theVidyapith has already LAN set up by which thedepartments can access OPAC

With tlle financial assistance provided by thefNFLIBNET in 1999-2000 the library purchased 5Pentiums rn computers and one server The librarystarted retro-conversion of bibliographical recordsof books with SOUL software by employing morethan IOOstudents The Banasthali Vidyapith has been~llso providing all help to the library from time totime for library computerization

The library plans to computerize its Circulationfunctions in near future The basic job of updatingmembeiship data retro-conversion of old bibliographical records and bar coding of books is goingto start The library plans to barcode the membership cards also The library would like to putextra computer systems for Online Public AccessCatalogue and Internet access

Shri Pramod Kumar the first Director ofINFLIBNET Centre successfully completed hissecond term as Director and took prematureretirement from the services of Centre from 28thFebruary 200 I

Shri S M Salgar Scientist - Gwho has been withINFLIBNET since beginning has taken over thecharge from Shri Pramod Kumar as Acting Directoron 28th February 2001

A farewell function was organised by the staff atINFLIBNET in honour of out going Director ShriPramod Kumar on 5th March 200 I The staff laudedthe yeoman service rendered by him to INFLIBNETand extended ~arm welcome to Shri S M Salgar asActing Director

University Websites The presence of Indian universities on World WideWeb is increasing Number of universities ha(created websites with large amount of academicinformation To promote this informationINFLIBNET has providedlinkto such official sitesof universities at httpwwwinflibnetacin The listof universities whos official web sites are availablefor on-line access is given below

The Library has been serving various componentsof the Vidyapith community viz faculty studentsand staff towards fulfillment of the objectives TheCentral Library of the Vidyapith is kept open from800AM to 700 PM on all working days of the yearIt remains open from 1000 AM to 600 PM on Tuesday and holidays The library provides reading andlending facilities inter library loan referenceservice bibliographical and photocopying servicesThe library catalogue records have been preparedwith great care according to AACR II and books

are classified according to Devey DecimalClassification For assigning the subject headingsSears List and LC Subject Headings are used Thelibrary provides full biblioglaphical information of the documents

The work of automation of the library functions andservices wele initiated iri the year 2000 with thepurchase and installation of 6 computersone serverand SOUL software These computers are used todevelop in-house computer database of books andperiodicals The library has created 10000 recordsof books in machine readable format and areplanning to create periodicals and dissertation recordsin machine readable format It is to be noted that theVidyapith has already LAN set up by which thedepartments can access OPAC

With tlle financial assistance provided by thefNFLIBNET in 1999-2000 the library purchased 5Pentiums rn computers and one server The librarystarted retro-conversion of bibliographical recordsof books with SOUL software by employing morethan IOOstudents The Banasthali Vidyapith has been~llso providing all help to the library from time totime for library computerization

The library plans to computerize its Circulationfunctions in near future The basic job of updatingmembeiship data retro-conversion of old bibliographical records and bar coding of books is goingto start The library plans to barcode the membership cards also The library would like to putextra computer systems for Online Public AccessCatalogue and Internet access

Shri Pramod Kumar the first Director ofINFLIBNET Centre successfully completed hissecond term as Director and took prematureretirement from the services of Centre from 28thFebruary 200 I

Shri S M Salgar Scientist - Gwho has been withINFLIBNET since beginning has taken over thecharge from Shri Pramod Kumar as Acting Directoron 28th February 2001

A farewell function was organised by the staff atINFLIBNET in honour of out going Director ShriPramod Kumar on 5th March 200 I The staff laudedthe yeoman service rendered by him to INFLIBNETand extended ~arm welcome to Shri S M Salgar asActing Director

University Websites The presence of Indian universities on World WideWeb is increasing Number of universities ha(created websites with large amount of academicinformation To promote this informationINFLIBNET has providedlinkto such official sitesof universities at httpwwwinflibnetacin The listof universities whos official web sites are availablefor on-line access is given below

Alagappa University

httpwwwtnunivacinaJagappa

Aligarh Muslim University

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Allahabad University

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Annanlalai Ulliversity ~-

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Anna University

httpwwwannaunivedu

Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College forWomen

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Bangalore University

hup wwwbangedoreuniversitynet

Barathidasan University

httpwwwbcluernetin

Bharathiyar University

httpwwwbharathiernetin

Barkathullah University

httpwwwbubhopaJorg

Bhavnagar University

httpwmiddotVbhavnagarcombha vu n ibh avun ihtlll

University of Bombay (Mumbai)

httpwwm u ac in

Calicut University

httpunieaacin

Cochin Universit~l of Science and Technology

httpcusateduhomehtm

Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha

httpwwwtnunivac in dbhps

Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar University

httpwwwbrauagracom

University of Delhi

httpwwwcluacin

Devi Ahilya University

httpwwwdavvacin

Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University

httpwwwtnunivac ingri

Gujarat Ayurved University

httpwwwayurveduniversitycom

Gujarat Vidyapith

httpwwwgujviclyapithorg

Gulbarga University

httpwwwgulbargauniversitykarnicin

Guru Gasidas University Bilaspur

httpwwwggduorg

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Universitv

hnpggsipu nic in

Himachal Pradesh University

httphpunivnicin

Hirtlachal Pradesh Krishi Vishwavidyalaya

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University of Hydarabad

httpwwwuohydernetin

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOLJ)

httpwwwignouedll

Jadavpur University Kolkatta

httpwwwj adavpuredu

Jamiahamdard

httpw wwj am iahamdard org

Jawaharlala Nehru University

httpwwwjnuac in

Jamia Millia Islamia

httpj mi nic in

Kakatiya University

httpwwwkuwarangalcom

Kerala University

httpwww keral au niversi tyedu

Kurukshetra University

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Lucknow Unhersity

httpwww1 uckn owu ni vorg

Madras University

httpwwwuniversityofmadrasedu

Madurai Khamaraj University httpwwwmkunivorg

http www mk u hyd c0m

Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda

httpwww msubedu

Mahatma Glndhi University Kottayam

httpwww mguni velsityedu

lVlaharashtra University of Health Sciences

httpwwwmuhsnashikcomManonmaniamSundaranar UniversityTirunelveli

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Mohan lala Sukadia Universityhttpedueation v~nleomm Isu

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Mother Teresa Womens UniversityKodaikanalhttpwwwtnunivac inmteresa

University of Mysorehttpwwwuniversityofmysorecoml

Nagpur Universityhttpwwwnagpur-un ivers ityeom

The National Law school of India universityhttpwwwnlsacin

Osmania Universityhttpwwwosmaniaaein

Periyar University Salemhttpwwwtnunivae inperi y ar

Pondichery Universityhttppu pon nic in

httpwwwpondiuniorg

Punjab Agricultural universityhttphomeearthl ink netn si nghpau

Punjab Universityhttpwwwpuchdac in

University of Punehttpwww unipuneernet in

Bharati Vidyapeeth Punehttpwww bharat iv idYapeethed u

Punjabi Universityhttpwwwuniversitypunjabiorg

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Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences atKarnatakahttpkarnic inrguhs

University of Roorkee

httpwwwuororg

SNDT Womens University

httpwww sndtedu

The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University

httpwwwtnunivac inmgrmed ical

Tamilnadu Agricultural University

httpwwwtnauedu

httpdbs tn nic intnau

Tamil Nadll Veteriuuy and Animal SciencesUniversity Chenai

httpwwwtanuvascom

Tamil Nadll Dr Ambedkar Law University

httpwwwilllscernetintandalau

Tezpllr University

httpwwwtezuernetin

Utkal University

httpwww uxkal un ivers ityorg

Viswa Bharati Shantinikethan

httpwwwvbharaternetin

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra OpenUniversity Nashik

httpwwycmoucom

1 A Mutshewa and K N Rao Enhancing accessthrough electronic resources The University ofBot-wltlnltllibrary experience Library Hi-TechVol 18(4) 2000 Pp 315-319

2 Candy Schwarty Digital Libraries an overviewJournal of Academic Librarianship Vol 26(6)

2000 Pp 385-393

3 Chris Dobson and Carolyn Errist selecting software for the digital library E-Content Vol n(6) 2000 Pp 27-33

4 Diane K Kovacs and Angela Elkordycollection development in cyberspacebuilding an electronic library collectionLibrary Hi-Tech Vol I8 (4) 2000 Pp nS-3S9

5 Elizabeth J Shaw Building a digital library atechnology managers point of view journalof Academic Librarianship Vomiddotl26 (6) 2000Pp 394-398

6 Eric Childress Mistakes we love to revisit 42ponders search engines directories and otherweb navigation wonders journal of InternetCataloguing Vol 3(4) 2000 Pp 23-27

7 Henis Voorbij Feasibiligy stlldy for the retrospective conversion of the Dutch UnionCatalogueProgram Vol35 (I) 200 I Pp 57-66

8 Ingrid Hsieb- Yee Organising internet resourcesteaching cataloguing standards and beyondOCLC Systems amp Services Vol 16(3) 2000Pp 130-143

9 John J Godber Consumatiry the Union l1aking a Union Catlouge of accessible formatswolks Resource Suiring and Information Networks Vol 14(2) 2000 Pp 37-48

10 Maria Honopoli and David NocholasUserevaluation of subject based Information galeways case study ADAMASLIB ProceedingsVol 53( 1) 200 I Pp39-52

II Peter Burnett and Christina SeuringOrganisi-ng access to free Internet resources an overv-iew of selection and management issues in largeacademic and national libraries with a view todefining a policy at oxford university ProgramVol 35( I) 2001 Pp 15-31

12 Ramesh Babu Band Ann OBrien Web OPACinterfaces an overview Electronic LibraryVol 18 (5) 2000 Pp 316-327

13 Stephen M Mutula IT developments in Easte-rn and Southern Africa implications for univ-ersity libraries Library Hi-Tech Vol 18 (4)2000 Pp 320-334

14 Thomas Pacis Human Search Engines nextkiller App) E-Content Vol 23 (6) 2000 Pp16-22

15 Todd R Digb) Ma]1aging libr~yechnologyresources jointly collaborative headache orpanacea J Computers ill Libraries Vol 21 (I)200 I Pp 56-60

16 Victoria A Nozera and Jason Vaughan Utilisa-tion of process improvement to manage changein n academic library Journal of AcademicLibrarianship Vol26 (6) WOOPp385-393

BioMed Magazine For Medical Updatehttpwwvexicomorgbio_medmaghtm

Bombay Hospital Journalhttpwwwbhjorg

Current Sciencehttptejasserc iiscernet incurrsci

Chemical Engineering Worldhttpwwwexicomorgcewlindexhtm

Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysicshttpwwwbiolinebdtorgbrli b

Indian Journal of Experimental BiologyhttpwwwbioIinebdtorgbrlie

Indian Journal of Marine Sciencehttpwwwbiolinebdtorgbrli m

Indian Journal of RadioloQY amp ImaQin ~- ~ ~

httpwww ij ri org

Indian Veterinary Journalhttpwwwindvetjournalcom

11MB Management Reviewhttpwwwiimbernetinreviewindexhtm I

Indian Journal of Pharmacologyhttpjwww-iJp~on]Jnecohi

RagaNet - an educational magazine for the musicand fine arts of India It features regular lessons onIndian music and the various instruments of Indialike the sitar tabla dilruba etc

URL httpwwwraganetcomRagaNet

On January 26th 200 I the Black Friday a mightyEarthquake shook most parts of Gujaral Mai1)perished and many more were left homeless Toexpress solidarity for the people affectedparticularly in Bhuj Rapar Anjar areaINFLlB lETstaff came forward voluntarily and contributed oneday salary to the Gujarat Chief Ministers RelidFund Gujarat INFLfBNET staff pay their ckcp

condolences for the departed souls

Students of BUS and MLIS from Sardar PatelUniversity Val lath Vidhya Nagar viSitedINFLIBNET Centre on 24th March 200 IINFUBNET staff briefed them about the activitiesof the Centre and demonstrated them SOULsoftware CD ROM databases online databasesotbooks theses serials experts and research projectsetc

The Editorial Board requests the librarians ~ndothers to contribute news items pertaining toimportant activities and events taking place in theiruniversities We also solicit your commentssuggestions in making this newsletter an effectivemedia to communicate INFUBNET activities