A Proposal for Creating Roorkee Engineering Library Network.

Abstract

Paper proposes a model for Roorkee Engineering Library's netowrk and discusses the modelities for the same. Roorkee has the distinction of having more than six research libraries, viz. CBRI, IRI, NIH, BEG, Roorkee University, and KTI Polytechnic. Roorkee. A survey of these libraries is carried out by circulating questionnaire and data is collected regarding the computer facilities available in these libraries. These libraries are willing to participate in the proposed library networking based on LAN system if proper funding, (initial and regular) are made available. It proposes the steps to start Roorkee Engineering Library Networking similar to DELINET, PUNENET, CALIBNET and SIRNET etc