DELNET – Developing Library Network The Network that Evolved into a Major Network H. K. Kaul Director, DELNET Developing Library Network

Introduction  Condition of Libraries in Delhi in the 1980s  Panel Discussion – January 7, 1988  Committee Set Up

The Feasibility Report  NISSAT Support  Coordination Committee  CMC  Feasibility Report Accepted April 1990

O Phase of DELNET  Consultative Comm. on Rationalisation of Periodicals  Training Programmes  facility introduced – X-400  Rationalisation – 40 lakhs saved - January 1992; Much more thereafter  Indo-British Meet – 1992 Registration recommended

Registration of DELNET as a Society  NISSAT requested to be permanent member of DELNET Board  Libraries were asked to come forward to host DELNET  The host institution had to give a letter agreeing to giving its address as the registered office. To this I got the following response:  NISSAT did not issue a letter confirming that it agrees to be a permanent member on the DELNET Board;  No institution came forward to act as the host institution for DELNET.  No institution, including IIC was prepared to give its address as the registered office of DELNET.  DELNET registered finally at home address of Dr. H. K. Kaul at L-67A, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi

Initial IIC Approval  NISSAT Support  In return to raise money through training programmes and return money to NISSAT  Failure of this arrangement NIC Support  Director General, NIC Dr. N. Seshagiri gave support to DELNET in 1993 India International Centre (IIC)

Online Union Catalogues and Union Lists The DELNET Online Union Catalogues were formally inaugurated on February 21, 1994 by Dr. (Mrs.) Kapila Vatsyayan, Academic Director, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and a Life Trustee of IIC. At that time we had 91,957 records in the Union Catalogue of Books.

The Building The Land : Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)  Application to JNU in 1993 for land  Shri P. N. Haksar, Chancellor; Prof. Y. K. Alagh, Vice Chancellor  Land allotted in 1994 – one acre The Architect : C. P. Kukreja & Co Building Grant from the Ministry of Culture  Rs. One crore sanctioned by the Ministry in 2002

The Building Laying of Foundation Stone for DELNET Building  23rd December 2002 Construction of the Building DELNET Shifts to its Own Building in JNU Campus  October 6, 2005

National / International Initiatives National Bibliographic Database IXth Five Year Plan, The Working Group had made the following precise recommendation: ‘Among the different city networks, it has been found that DELNET has emerged as an operational library network in India with 60 libraries in Delhi and other states as its members. It has been developing on-line union catalogue of books and periodicals. It is recommended that DELNET be supported to create National database and develop on OCLC pattern covering all subjects.’

National / International Initiatives National Bibliographic Database On the basis of this recommendation I approached the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Culture in 1996 to support the creation of a National Bibliographic Database.  International Institute of Tamil Studies(IITS), Chennai  Punjabi University, Patiala  Andhra University Library, Visakhapatnam  Asiatic Society of Bombay, Mumbai  Asiatic Society, Kolkata

National / International Initiatives AICTE - DELNET MOU The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and DELNET signed an MOU in 2001 to network libraries of the technical institutions approved by AICTE. Other National Seminars / Workshops  Indo-British Meet on Library Networking (1993)  National Workshop on Library Network Services (1994)  Networking of Public Libraries in South Asia (1996)  Seminar on Australian and Indian Libraries: The Nature, Demands and Special Needs (1997)  Modernisation of Oriental Libraries. January 5,  National Round Table on Modernisation and Networking of Libraries in India  National Seminar on the Book in the 21st Century

National / International Initiatives International Cooperation / Participation The Library Networks Around the World  BLCMP (Birmingham Libraries Cooperative Maintenance Project)  LASER (London and South Eastern Library Region)  CISTI (Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)  CAN/OLE (Canadian Online Enquiry Service)  OCLC  VALNET (Veterans Affairs Library Network)  FEDLINK Network Operations.etc.

National / International Initiatives  SAARC and the Other Countries  ICONLIS  National Knowledge Commission (NKC)  NAAC  SIRO Software Research

 Training Programmes and Workshops  Coordination Units  DELNET Consortium

The Publications  Delnet Newsletter  Director’s Reports  NACLIN Proceedings and Other Publications

DELNET Lectures DELNET Annual Lectures DELNET instituted the Annual Lectures in They were delivered by the following eminent personalities: Mr. N. Vittal Prof. M. G. K. Menon. Dr. V. S. Arunachalam, Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Dr. R. Natarajan, Chairman, Dr. N. Seshagiri, Dr. N. Vijayaditya, Prof. P. M. Bhargava, Prof. V. S. Prasad, Mr. Stephen Abram, Prof. S. V. Raghavan, Dr. S. S. Mantha, Mr. Brent Mai, Dr. Gulshan Rai Other Lectures by Eminent Scholars

In India Delnet MembersNo. of InstitutionsDelnet MembersNo. of Institutions Andhra Pradesh728Madhya Pradesh323 Andman & Nicobar2Maharashtra330 Arunachal Pradesh2Manipur4 Assam12Meghalaya2 Bihar15Mizoram2 Chandigarh8Nagaland2 Chhattisgarh48Orissa75 Delhi241Puducherry19 Goa8Punjab135 Gujarat183Rajasthan240 Haryana227Sikkim5 Himachal Pradesh33Tamil Nadu647 Jammu & Kashmir20Tripura3 Jharkhand17Uttar Pradesh473 Karnataka195Uttarakhand55 Kerala118West Bengal74 DELNET Membership: A Statistical Profile

Outside India - 23 Delnet MembersNo. of Institutions Nepal3 Oman4 Pakistan1 Philippines1 Sri Lanka7 United Arab Emirates3 USA4 Total Members – 4269 (As on November 12, 2012)

DELNET Union Catalogues : A Statistical Profile Delnet Database No. of Records Union Catalogue of Books – CCF 1,28,91,696 Union List of Current Periodicals 33,944 Union Catalogue of Periodicals 20,235 Database of Periodical Articles 9,22,042 CD-ROM Database 22,234 Union List of Video Recordings 6,000 Union List of Sound Recordings 1,025 Database of Theses and Dissertations 70,293 Database of E-books 1613

The Future of DELNET