Text Box: AICTE and DELNET had signed an MOU in 2000 to promote, among other services and facilities,  access to large and relevant information resources available with DELNET for students and teachers of AICTE approved institutions. AICTE had offered to pay  DELNET Rs. 5,000 as one-time Admission Fee and Rs. 7,500 as  Annual Membership Fee for the first year against each institution that took the membership of DELNET.  These concessions are not available w.e.f. January 1, 2010.   All AICTE approved and affiliated institutions taking institutional membership of DELNET are therefore  advised to pay direct  to DELNET the requisite amount of Rs. 5,000 as Admission Fee (one-time); Rs. 7,500/- as Annual Membership Fee  and Rs. 4,000 as Inter-Library Loan/Document Delivery Service (ILL/DDS) Annual Fee. Institutions are advised to use ILL/DDS service of DELNET  to benefit by sharing  more than one crore  records of documents available through DELNET.  The payments be sent through a Demand Draft in favour of DELNET, payable at New Delhi along with the Application Form and MOU, duly filled in.  Institutions joining DELNET  from 2011 have to pay all fee on their own, which is as follows:                   Admission Fee                                Rs. 5,000 (Mandatory)                   Annual Membership Fee              Rs. 7,500 (Mandatory)                   Annual Inter Library Loan  Fee   Rs. 4,000 (Mandatory)                                          Total                            Rs. 16,500                                                                   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Networked Resources for Technical Libraries

AICTE and DELNET signed an MOU in 2000 to:

  1. Promote access to more relevant information in each library of AICTE approved technical institute

  2. Give training to library staff so that they get associated with database creation work using international bibliographic standards

  3. Create union catalogues of resources available within the technical colleges and institutions for resource sharing purposes through DELNET

  4. Locate resources of national importance through DELNET online databases and make them available through inter library loan

  5. Enable each library to have access to global resources and help them through DELNET in procuring necessary documents on loan for research and reference.

During accreditation process, AICTE also takes into consideration whether the Institution’s Library is part of a national or an international library network. Keeping these issues in mind AICTE had agreed to pay to DELNET Rs.5,000 as one-time Registration Fee and Rs. 7,500 as the Membership Fee for first year against each approved/accredited Technical Institute that joins DELNET


The Benefits

Under the MOU, each Library that joins DELNET:

  1. Gets online-access through Internet to more than 70 lakh records of books, periodicals, articles, CD-ROMs. Video-Recordings,Sound-Recordings, Theses and Dissertations, Indian Specialists etc. These records are growing in number every day

  2. Can order books on loan from a Member Library in any part of the country and ask for photocopies of articles which are given at much reduced rates

  3. Can get its standard catalogue records merged into Union Catalogues developed by DELNET for resource sharing purposes at the national level

  4. Can order Library Management Software DELPLUS and DELMARC at much reduced rates. (DELPLUS at Rs. 15,000 and DELMARC at Rs. 25,000)

  5. Is offered free training for one library staff. (TA/DA for the staff will have to be borne by the Member Institute)

  6. Gets concession in the Registration Fee for participation in the National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking (NACLIN)

  7. Receives guidance in using international standards, gets free DELDOS software for creating catalogue records and is given access to a large number of links to useful sites and databases through DELNET.


Application Procedure

The procedure for sending application is as follows:

Please download the following forms from this site , fill them in and get them signed by the Head of the Institute:

  1. Application-cum-Proposal for Providing DELNET Membership

  2. Text of the undertaking which is to be printed on Rs. 50 stamp paper

  3. DELNET MOU & Membership Form

  4. A demand draft in favour of DELNET payable at New Delhi for Rs. 4,000 towards Inter-Library Loan fee for one year.

Who to Contact

All the above documents duly filled in and the bank draft should be sent by Registered Post to:

Dr. H. K. KAUL
Director, DELNET
Developing Library Network
JNU Campus
Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj
New Delhi-110070
INDIA


For queries or quick response phone or e-mail/ fax your messages to Director, DELNET:

E-mail : director[at]delnet[dot]ren[dot]nic[dot]in
Tel. : 91-11-26742222, 26741232, 26741305, 26741246, 26741266, 26741302
Web: http://www.delnet.nic.in

Annexure II

INSTRUCTIONS & INFORMATION

1. DELNET shall allot , for a three months trial period, a Login and Password to the Library of each Institution as selected by the AICTE for this purpose. One time payment of Admission Fee of Rs. 5,000/= per selected Institution and Annual Membership Fee of Rs. 7,500/= for the first year only, per selected Institution, will be paid by the AICTE directly to DELNET. For continuation of DELNET connectivity beyond the trial period, confirmation regarding allotment of the Login and Password should be forwarded in the enclosed proforma by the Institution to Director, DELNET, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi- 110070.

2. DELNET shall promote resource sharing among the Institutions by merging the standard bibliographic records which have been created by the Institutions so far into its union catalogues and add new standard records that may be created by the Institutions from time to time and make the said union catalogues accessible online;

3. DELNET shall request Library of each Institution to create the catalogues of its records using the following international standards:

i. MARC Format

ii. AACR II

iii. Library of Congress Subject Headings or specialised thesauri that are internationally used in each discipline

iv. Dewey Decimal Classification

The Library of an Institution using another format will be requested to upgrade the records in due course of time.

4. DELNET shall provide DEL-DOS software to the Library of each Institution for creating MARC (Machine Readable Catalogue) free of charge

5. DELNET shall provide Library Management Software such as DELPLUS and DELMARC at much reduced rates to the Institute once the software are cleared for general use

6. DELNET shall provide access to the Institute to more than six million records present in the following databases that are regularly growing in size and to all such databases that are created/upgraded by DELNET from time to time on its system for general use:

i. Union Catalogue of Books : CCF

ii. Union Catalogue of Books : MARC

iii. Union List of Current Periodicals

iv. Union Catalogue of Periodicals

v. Database of Periodical Articles

vi. Union List of CD-ROMs

vii. Union List of Video Recordings

viii. Union List of Sound Recordings

ix. Database of Theses and Dissertations

7. DELNET shall provide to the Institutions access to some international databases from time to time, including U.S. Patents: Full Text; Library of Congress Catalogues, etc. that is being given through its online system at present.

8. DELNET shall arrange training for one library professional from each Institute free of charge. TA/DA and other expenses of trainees should be borne by respective Institutions. The training shall be given in MARC Format; AACR II, Library of Congress Subject Headings, use of DELDOS/DELPLUS etc and accessing of DELNET Databases.

9. DELNET shall extend concession in the Registration Fee to the Library Staff of the Institutions who participate in the National Convention on Library and Information Networking organised by DELNET.

10. DELNET shall bring out a separate brochure on AICTE-DELNET initiative for the modernisation and networking of libraries of all Institutions and circulate the same to them for joining DELNET

11. DELNET will provide technical support to each Institute whenever required for solving any software or network related problems on cost plus basis as decided by DELNET.

12. DELNET membership is given to Libraries/Institutions at a very nominal charge. The following are the present rates:
 

INDIA AND OTHER SAARC COUNTRIES
 

Rs.
Admission Fee (One time) 5,000
Annual Membership Fee 7,500
ILL Online Charge 4,000
(Ask for ILL Guidelines for details)

 

NON SAARC COUNTRIES

 U.S. $
Admission Fee (One time) 100
Annual Membership Fee 500


13. There will be no financial/managerial or any other involvement of AICTE in regard to the clauses…

14. PLEASE NOTE: Apart from one time lump sum grant of Rs. 12,500/= per selected Institution( as mentioned in point 1, Annexure II), the AICTE will not have any financial/managerial or any other obligation with the concerned selected Institution and/or DELNET in this regard.