Networks (ERNET, NICNET, OCLC, INFLIBNET, DELNET, JANET, BLAISE)

***Unit viii – Networks (ERNET, NICNET, OCLC, INFLIBNET, DELNET, JANET, BLAISE)***

ERNET (Education and Research NETwork)

Initiated in 1986 by the Department of Electronics (DoE)

                With funding support from the Government of India and United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Involving eight premier institutions as participating agencies

-- NCST (National Centre for Software Technology) Bombay,

-- IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore,

-- Five IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) at Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras,

-- and the DoE, New Delhi

“Objective: The objective was to create expertise R&D and education in the country in the area of networking and Internet in the country”

ERNET India in partnership with University Grants Commission is setting up UGC-Info net.

MOU with AICTE to provide connectivity to AICTE Recognized Colleges and Regional Centers..

Indian Council for Agriculture Research-Net

NICNET(National Informatics Centre NETwork – NIC network)

Conceived in 1973 & commissioned in 1977

NIC (National Informatics Centre) is an organization set up by the Govt. of India in 1977

NIC has set up a satellite-based nation-wide computer-communication network, called NICNET

The world's largest Satellite based Computer communication network.

Providing information exchange services – b/w Government and Corporate sector organizations,

NICNET services include File Transfer, Electronic Mail, Remote Database Access, Data broadcast and EDI

NICNET has served as the basic message communication facility in the calamity-affected areas

OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)

Founded in 1967, the presidents of the colleges and universities in the state of Ohio founded the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) to develop a computerized system in which the libraries of Ohio academic institutions could share resources and reduce costs

Old Name -- Ohio College Library Center (OCLC)

OCLC’s first offices were in the Main Library on the campus of The Ohio State University (OSU)

1981 -- The legal name of Ohio College Library Center became Online Computer Library Center

Frederick Gridley Kilgour founded OCLC as the Ohio College Library Center in 1967 and served as its first president and chief executive officer from 1967 to 1980.

Jay Jordan became OCLC’s fourth President and Chief Executive Officer in May 1998-Present

NextSpace is OCLC’s magazine

World cat: Worlds largest bibliographic database

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET)         

Initiated by the UGC in 1991 with its Head Quarters at Gujarat University Campus, Ahmadabad

National centre (Ahmadabad)

JNU, Delhi                        IISc Bangalore                  Jadavpur University Kolkata                University of Poona, Puna

(4-Regional centers)

(40 sectoral information centers - SIC)

(About 100 Document resource Centre – DRC)

Functions & Activities:

Soul software: library management software developed by INFLIBNET.

                             Soul 2.0 launched in 2009

                             SOUL – SOftware for University Libraries

ETD (electronic submission of theses and dissertations): Joint venture of UGC and INFLIBNET

IndCat (Online union catalogue of Indian universities)

CCF to MARC Conversion utility: Launched by INFLIBNET,

                                                               Open source utility – convert CCF data to MARC 21 Format – Done with VB.Net 2005

DELNET (DEveloping Library NETwork)

Old name: Delhi libraries Network

Started at the India International Centre Library in January 1988.

Registered as a society in 1992.

It was supported by the National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT) & the National Informatics Centre (NIC)

Governing Board Members: 2010-2012

	S. Varadarajan	President
	S. S. Murthy	Vice-President
	H.K. Kaul	Director

“Objective -- promoting resource sharing among the libraries through the development of a network of libraries”

Current awareness service of DELNET – ‘LISTSERVE’ or DEL-LST

JANET (Joint Academic NETwork)

Inaugurated on 1st April 1984

Important library and research network of Great Britain

Funded by Joint Information System Committee (JISC)

Managed by U. K. Education and Research Networking Association (UKERNA)

BLAISE (British Library’s Automated Information Service)

Introduced in 1977

Online information retrieval service

INFLIBNET	1991
DELNET	1988
ERNET	1986
JANET	1984
NICNET	1977
BLAISE
OCLC	1967