Delnet: an Introduction and Characteristics

Building a Cooperative Network for Resource Sharing and Information Dissemination

Abstract

DELNET has emerged at the first operational cooperative networkincorporating all the disciplines science and technology, social sciences andhumanities in its ambit. Each member library is contributing the progress ofDELNET. To promote sharing of resources among the libraries in Delhi bycollecting storing and disseminating information and by offering computerizedservices to the users. However it was felt that acquisition of hardware by thelibraries should be directly related to the number of records created inmachine readable form per year and not to the size of collection in thelibraries.