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INFLIBNET Centre Library

The INFLIBNET Library plays a vital role in the collection development and dissemination of scientific and technical information to meet the present and future needs of the Centre.

The INFLIBNET Centre has a small, specialized library consisting of 2000 documents on computer, communication, information and library science. The library is fully computerized using SOUL integrated library management software. The collection of the library is available online through the web OPAC facility of the SOUL.

The INFLIBNET Library plays a vital role in the collection development and dissemination of scientific and technical information to meet the present and future needs of the Centre. The Library maintains databases of

  • participants who attended various training programmes at INFLIBNET Centre;
  • SOUL installations; and
  • universities and its contact details including e-mail and website addresses available at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/universitydirectory/ . These databases are accessible through the library website
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Library Services

  • Reference Service
  • Document Delivery Service
  • Current Awareness Service
  • Inter Library Loan Service
  • Electronic Information Service
  • Photocopy Service

IR @ INFLIBNET (http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in)

The IR @ INFLBNET has been set-up to host full-text of research publications of technical staff as well as other publications of the Centre using Dspace, an open source digital library software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Dspace supports the Open Archives Initiative?s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), an internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards. The IR @ INFLBNET provides a platform for researcher in LIS to deposit, reuse and share their research publications. The repository also has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve digital materials created in the Centre. Staff members can register themselves with the digital repository and submit their pre-prints (pre-refereed version of an article), post-prints (post-refereed final version) and publisher PDFs (if allowed by the publisher). The papers publish in CALIBER and PLANNER proceedings have been uploaded in to the IR @ INFLIBNET in PDF format. The Institutional Repository also includes Course Materials, Newspaper Clippings, etc.

Institutional Member

The Centre has institutional membership of following national and international organizations:

  • Association for Information Management (ASLIB)
  • International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
  • American Library Association (ALA)
  • National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
  • Indian Library Association (ILA)
  • Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
  • Society for Information Science (SIS)
  • Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC)
  • Computer Society of India (CSI)
  • ADINET (Ahmedbad Library Nework)
  • American Resource Centre,
  • British Library, Ahmedabad

E-Journals Archival Library (Print Version)

Besides receiving access to e-resources on complementary basis under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, the Centre maintains a separate Archival Library consisting of print journals received as a part of the agreement with the participating publishers of the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Under the agreement, the publishers are requested to submit a copy of all the issues of the journals. This archival library is open to all users interested in using these print resources for their study / research.

The Centre has received issues of 286 journal titles from different publishers. During this year under review, issues of 100 journals each were received from the Taylor and Francis, Blackwell and Oxford University Press.