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and tools, processes and practices that support its effective use and increase value of this

information;

: Build and strengthen ICT infrastructure in educational institutions with value-added services;

: Develop tools, techniques and procedures for secure and convenient access management
enabling users to access information in electronic format from anywhere, anytime;

: Develop resource selection guides and online tutorials for effective delivery and usage of e-
resources; and

: Facilitate creation of open access digital repositories in every educational institution for

hosting educational and research content created by these institutions.

3. Aims and Objectives

The objectives of the Centre, as per the Memorandum of Association (MoA), are as follows:

a. to promote and establish communication facilities to improve capability in information transfer
and access that provide support to scholarship, learning, research and academic pursuits through
cooperation and involvement of concerned agencies;

b. to establish 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 uniform standards;
: 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 services;

: to provide reliable access to document collection of libraries by creating online 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 develop new methods and techniques for archiving of valuable information available as
manuscripts and information documents in difference Indian languages, in the form of digital

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