MCIT LIBRARY CONSORTIUM |
Resource Sharing and Networking of Libraries |
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology comprises of three departments those are Department of Information Technology (DIT); Department of Telecommunication (DOT) and ; Department of Post (DOP) . Each department has a number of PSU/Organizations/Autonomous Bodies.Following is the broad organization chart of MCIT: |
These
organizations have their own Libraries, Documentation Centres and
Information Centres to meet the information needs of their officials. These
organizations spend huge amount of their budget to purchase/subscribe books,
journals etc. Sometimes it has been observed that these
libraries purchase common/similar information resources separately. Thus there
is a need of common purchasing and sharing of information resources among
these organizations for the best utilization of their library budget as well
as information resources |
Digital Library of ICT resources |
MCIT
Libraries Consortium has the above areas in its purview. All the three
Departments, Autonomous Bodies and PSU (s) has number of publications like
Annual Reports, Standards, Patents and many important government publications.
A Digital Library
of all such collections will be put on the consortium web site for
general purpose in public domain wherever possible and for internal use of
MCIT officials.
The web server will be developed and maintained by NIC, New Delhi |
e-Journals
subscription and maintenance |
Looking into the trends of e-Journals, MCIT Libraries Consortium is in the process of common subscription on Consortium Platform. Department of Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications, Department of Post and other Autonomous Bodies, PSUs subscribe Journals/Magazines related to ICT in print form. As the users of our Library systems spread across the nations and cyber savvy in nature looks forward for e-version of Journals/Magazine. The most beneficial properties of e-Journals like round the clock accessibility, retrieval of information at light speed and mouse click access are the add on features to refer e-Journals. In the common e-Journals subscription of MCIT Libraries Consortium Digital Libraries/e-Journals/Database of are enlisted. |
News Clipping Services Like every organization’s Library, the MCIT libraries provide News Clipping Service to its users as a Current Awareness Services (CAS). NIC, New Delhi has developed this software (called as NewsNIC) to provide this service online to its clients sitting across the country. This software will be distributed free of charge to all the participating members. It has been planned to decentralized the job of downloading news items from website and uploading in the Online News Clipping site. This decentralization is possible as the news items covered in the service are related to Information Technology, Telecommunications and ICT. The aim is sow less reap more by sharing the job and simultaneously avoiding duplication. The professional manpower can be deployed more efficiently. |
e-Granthalaya Software |
e-Granthalaya:
a Library Management software developed by NIC is
operational in many libraries. This
software will be used for Automation and Networking of all the participating
Libraries in MCIT Consortium. e-Granthalaya
will be installed at SAN Server
located at NIC, New Delhi. All the participating libraries will update their
respective database for retrieval and updating of information. Training and
other infrastructure towards this will be provided through MCIT Consortium.
Our target is to strengthen the partner libraries of Consortium lagging
behind in automation for information resource management. |
National Union Catalogs |
For resource sharing among the participating Libraries of Consortium ; Union Catalogue of books, journals and resources available in the member libraries will be hosted on the web site. e-Granthalaya software with such features for online Inter Library loan facility and creating integrated LIS system. |
Name
: The
name of the Consortium shall be “ MCIT Library Consortium” |
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Consortium
Committee. |
Dr. Debashis Dutta, Scientist 'G' DeitY |
Chairman |
Shri U.K. Nandwani, Director, STQC | Vice-Chairman |
Shri Sriniwas S. Pownikar, Library In-Charge, C-DAC | Member |
Shri S K Sharma, Library Incharge, DIT |
Member Convener |
Director (Technology),
DOP, Dak Bhawan
|
Member |
Shri M.M. Tripathi, Joint Director, DOEACC | Member |
Shri P.K. Upadhyay, Officer Incharge, Library, NIC | Member |
Ms. Bharti,Librarian C-DOT
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Member |
Shri Sushant K panigrahi NIC | Joint Member Convener |
NODAL OFFICE: The nodal office of the Consortium is at DeitY, 6 CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003. All the administrative, financial and management of Consortium will be monitored at nodal office. |
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