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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Bangalore: Unable to find the books you are looking for in the library of your university? Here is solution. You can soon search for the books you need in other universities in the State and place a request to borrow them through a web portal and get the book couriered to your place.
This could become a reality when the proposed “Project Bookshare” will be launched once the universities in the State link their libraries under the ambitions University Libraries Network of Karnataka (UNI-LINK) venture in about six months.
How does “Project Bookshare” work? First, a common catalogue of all the universities will be prepared and it will be made available to the authorised users of the libraries in all the universities by creating a web portal, says N. Prabhu Dev, Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University, who is heading a task force comprising Vice-Chancellors of the universities to implement UNI-LINK.
This request will instantly reach the librarian of the university (through the network administrator) to which the user belongs to. This request will be forward to the librarian of the university from where the book is to be borrowed.
Once the request for borrowing is accepted by the librarian of the other university, an e-mail will be sent to the selected courier firm, which will pick up the book and deliver it the borrower’s library within a day. Simultaneously, e-mails are sent to the borrowing university and the user, who could be either a student or a faculty member, intimating despatch of courier. The user can collect the book from his library by adhering to special borrowing norms. The user is required to return the book to his library within a prescribed period. However, there will be strict borrowing norms to ensure safe return of borrowed books.
Interestingly, the user will not be paying any fee for utilising this service, says P.V. Konnur, Bangalore University Librarian, who is also the member-secretary of the task force.
The service charges incurred for this would be borne out of the pool of fee that each university pays annually towards maintaining the networking facility.
It is proposed that when a university borrows a book or document, a prescribed fee gets deducted from the pool that it paid towards the pool.
This amount will be divided into three parts — half of it will be paid to courier service, the remaining two will be shared between the lending university and for network maintaining account, explains Mr. Konnur while pointing out that the proposal is based on international inter-library lending practices.
Dr. Dev points out that inter-library lending of book service will benefit the students and it will be more advantageous when the facility is extended to libraries of affiliated colleges in the second phase of its implementation.
Want a book? Borrow it from other universities
Bangalore: Unable to find the books you are looking for in the library of your university? Here is solution. You can soon search for the books you need in other universities in the State and place a request to borrow them through a web portal and get the book couriered to your place.
This could become a reality when the proposed “Project Bookshare” will be launched once the universities in the State link their libraries under the ambitions University Libraries Network of Karnataka (UNI-LINK) venture in about six months.
Portal
The student of a particular university can log on to the portal and search for the availability of books or other reference material through online public access catalogue and submit a request for inter-university document delivery service for borrowing them.
This request will instantly reach the librarian of the university (through the network administrator) to which the user belongs to. This request will be forward to the librarian of the university from where the book is to be borrowed.
Once the request for borrowing is accepted by the librarian of the other university, an e-mail will be sent to the selected courier firm, which will pick up the book and deliver it the borrower’s library within a day. Simultaneously, e-mails are sent to the borrowing university and the user, who could be either a student or a faculty member, intimating despatch of courier. The user can collect the book from his library by adhering to special borrowing norms. The user is required to return the book to his library within a prescribed period. However, there will be strict borrowing norms to ensure safe return of borrowed books.
Interestingly, the user will not be paying any fee for utilising this service, says P.V. Konnur, Bangalore University Librarian, who is also the member-secretary of the task force.
The service charges incurred for this would be borne out of the pool of fee that each university pays annually towards maintaining the networking facility.
It is proposed that when a university borrows a book or document, a prescribed fee gets deducted from the pool that it paid towards the pool.
This amount will be divided into three parts — half of it will be paid to courier service, the remaining two will be shared between the lending university and for network maintaining account, explains Mr. Konnur while pointing out that the proposal is based on international inter-library lending practices.
Dr. Dev points out that inter-library lending of book service will benefit the students and it will be more advantageous when the facility is extended to libraries of affiliated colleges in the second phase of its implementation.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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