Discuss in brief the objectives and services of CALIBNET

 Calcutta Library Network (CALIBNET) was established in 1986 with the financial help from NISSAT.  The main objective of CALIBNET is to provide access of information to the library and information centers in eastern region The CALIBNET was envisaged as a metropolitan network in 1993, linking 38 libraries in Calcutta with financial support from NISSAT .

The prime objective was to institute systematic interlibrary co-operation and document delivery among the networked libraries for effective resource sharing. The applications to be supported are electronic mail, file transfer, remote logging to databases and document access.

The participating libraries computerised their inhouse functions such as cataloging, serials control, acquisition and fund accounting, circulation and user services. These have been interconnected through X.25 protocol. The Network Services Centre provides global information services for all the users of the participating libraries.

The services include current awareness, union catalogues, database, access to national and international networks. CALIBNET provides libraries and their members an efficient solution for their information needs.  The project was supported by NISSAT in 1986 and managed by the CALIBNET Society established under the West Bengal Government’s Societies Registration Act 1961.

The centre is stationed at Jadavpur University Campus, Kolkata Objectives CALIBNET is established to pursue the problems of eastern region of country, mainly West Bengal. The primary objective of the organisation is creating and facilitating access to available library and information resources in West Bengal. The main objective is supported by other objectives like given below:

• Facilitating remote online access to the holding data of Calcutta libraries and other specialised databases; and

• Providing electronic access to globally available information, imbibing its information centre approach.

Services Software Development By intense in-house research and development two software have been developed for supporting library activities.

i) Sanjukta: This in-house software has been developed for storage and retrieval which is used in Centralised Database of CALIBNET for providing online access from remote locations. The software provides options and flexibility for record generation, organising and searching information. 

ii) Parapar: Parapar has been developed to support interchange of bibliographic data between different bibliographic standards like, USMARC, UNIMARC and CCF. It converts other format data to ISOD2709 format which can be imported into the centralised Database of CALIBNET

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