1. To promote and establish communication facilities to improve capability in information
transfer and access to knowledge, that provide support to scholarship, learning, research
and academic pursuit through cooperation and involvement of agencies concerned.
2. To establish INFLIBNET: Information and Library Network a computer communication
network for linking libraries and information centres in universities, deemed to be
universities, colleges, UGC information centres, institutions of national importance and
R & D institutions, etc. avoiding duplication of efforts.
3. Promote and implement computerisation of operations and services in the libraries and
information centres of the country.
4. Evolve standards and uniform guidelines in techniques, methods, procedures, computer
hardware and software, services and promote their adoption in actual practice by all
libraries, in order to facilitate pooling, sharing and exchange of information towards
optimal use of resources and facilities.
5. Evolved a national network, interconnecting various libraries and information centres in the
country, to improve capability in information handling and service.
6. Provide reliable access to document collection of libraries by creating on-line union
catalogue of serials, theses/dissertations, books, monographs and non-book materials
(manuscripts, audio-visuals, computer data, multimedia, etc.) in various libraries in India.
7. Provide access to bibliographic information sources with citations, abstracts etc. through
indigenously created databases of the Sectoral Information Centres of NISSAT, UGC
Information Centres, City Networks and such others and by establishing gateways for
on-line accessing of national and international databases held by national and international
information networks and centres respectively.
8. Develop new methods and techniques for archival of valuable information available as
manuscripts and information documents in different Indian Languages, in the form of
digital images using high density storage media.
9. Enable the users dispersed all over the country, irrespective of location and distance, to
have access to information regarding serials, theses/dissertations, books, monographs and
non-book materials by locating the sources wherefrom available and to obtain it through
the facilities of INFLIBNET and union catalogue of documents.
10. Create databases of projects, institutions, specialists, etc. for providing on-line information
service.
11. Create databases of projects, institutions, specialists, etc. for providing on-line information
service.
12. Encourage co-operation among libraries, documentation centres and information centres in
the country, so that the resources can be pooled for the benefit of helping the weaker
resource centres by stronger ones.
13. Train and develop human resources in the field of computerised library operations and
networking to establish, manage and sustain INFLIBNET.
14. Facilitate academic communication amongst scientists, engineers, social scientists,
academics, faculties, researchers and students through electronic mail, file transfer,
computer/audio/video conferencing, etc.
15. Collaborate with institutions, libraries, information centres and other organisations in India
and abroad in the field relevant to the objectives of the Centre.
