INFLIBNET is an autonomous organization established by the University Grants Commission of India to modernize university libraries using technology. It aims to establish communication between universities, develop standards for libraries, create a national library network, and provide access to library resources through its various programs. INFLIBNET works to computerize university libraries, create a union catalog of holdings, develop library management software, and provide access to e-resources and databases.

1. INFLIBNET

2. Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET)
Centre, Gandhinagar is an Autonomous
Inter-University Centre (IUC) of University
Grants Commission, New Delhi (Ministry of
Education, Govt. of India). It is a major
National Programme initiated by the UGC in
March 1991 as a project under the IUCAA,
it became an independent Inter-University
Centre in June 1996. INFLIBNET is
involved in modernizing university libraries
in India using the state-of-art technologies
for the optimum utilisation of information.
INFLIBNET is set out to be a major player in
promoting scholarly communication among
academicians and researchers in India.
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3. OBJECTIVES
To promote and establish communication facilities to
improve capability in information transfer and access, that
provide support to scholarship, learning, research and
academic pursuit through cooperation and involvement of
agencies concerned
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 service;
To provide reliable access to document collection of
libraries by creating on-line union catalogue of serials,
theses/ dissertations, books, monographs and non-book
materials (manuscripts, audio-visuals, computer data,
multimedia, etc.) in various libraries in India:
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4. To provide access to bibliographic information
sources with citations, abstracts, etc.;
To facilitate academic communication amongst scientist,
engineers, social scientists, academics, faculties,
researchers and students through electronic mail, file
transfer, computer/audio/video conferencing, etc
To undertake system design and studies in the field of
communications, computer networking, information
handling and data management;
To establish appropriate control and monitoring system for
the communication network and organize maintenance;

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The Council is an apex body of the Centre chaired by its
President, ex-officio Chairman of the UGC. The Council has
seven ex-officio members and three nominated members.
The members of the Governing Board are also members of
the Council, as such, total number of members of the
Council is 21. The nominated members of the Council
serve for a term of 3 years. The Director, INFLIBNET is the
Member-Secretary of the Council. The Council meets once
in a year
President Prof M Jagadesh Kumar, Chairman,
University Grants Commission, New Delhi

6. PROGRAMMES & ACTIVITIES
INDCAT
+ Union Catalogue of Indian Universities
(IndCat) is a by-product of the library
automation of the INFLIBNET Centre
wherein universities that are signatory to
the MoU on library automation contribute
the bibliographic records of documents
that are available in their libraries. The
scope of the IndCat has now been
extended to invite contributions from
universities and other institutions that have
not signed MoU with INFLIBNET Centre
on library automation.
SOUL 3.0
+ The SOUL 3.0 (Software for University
Libraries) is state-of-the-art integrated
library management software designed
and developed by the INFLIBNET Centre
based on requirements of colleges,
universities and other academic libraries.
The software is compliant to international
standards for bibliographic formats and
circulation protocols
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7. E-SHODHSINDHU
+ e-ShodhSindhu is an initiative
of Consortium for Higher
Education Electronics
Resources by Ministry of
Education. It provides access
to e-resources (10000+ full-
text journals, 164300+ e-
Books and 4 databases
through e-ShodhSindhu and
600000 e-Books through
NDL) to Universities, Colleges
and Centrally Funded
Technical Institutions in India.
SHODHSHUDDHI
+ The Govt. of India was to provide
Plagiarism Detection Software to
all Indian Universities/Institutions
including Central Universities,
State Universities, Deemed to be
Universities, Private Universities,
Centrally Funded Technical
Institutions (CFTIs), Institute of
National importance (INIs), Inter
University Centres of UGC (IUCs).
The INFLIBNET Centre is a nodal
agency to execute the
project/initiative under the aegis of
Ministry of Education.
SHODHGANGA
+ Shodhganga is a digital repository
set-up for submission of electronic
versions of theses and dissertations
by students / research scholars in
universities in India and make them
available in open access to the
world-wide academic community in
response to the UGC Notification
(Minimum Standards & Procedure
for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree,
Regulation, 2009 and amendment
made in 2016) where-in the
responsibility of maintaining the
digital repository of Electronic
Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) is
assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre.
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8. 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.
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9. For more details
https://www.inflibne
t.ac.in/library/
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10. Thank You
+SUDHEEP A
sudheepathiyanathil@gmail.com
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