Delhi Public Library books' catalogue to go online
New Delhi, Oct.1 : Delhi Public Library, main building of which is located near the
old Railway station in the city, has decided to put its current catalogue online from
October 2.
The online catalogue will include a section on current acquisitions and books received
under the Delivery of Books Act from 2007.
"The new facility being provided for the first time by any Indian library will enable
downloading bibliographical information of Indian language books from the DPL site in Marc
21 format which is followed by libraries in the country," said a senior Library
official.
"At present about 20,000 currently acquired books have been enlisted in the new
catalogue system. The remaining old collection of books available in the library will also
be made available online in a phased manner in near future," the official added.
The new catalogue system being offered through Koha 3.0 open source library software could be accessed by visiting the official website www.dpl.gov.in/ and http://59.176.17.111.
As retro-conversion of such a massive collection is a gigantic and time- consuming
task, hence Delhi Public Library has decided to introduce Koha in different phases.
The books' online catalogue (OPAC) facility is hoped to prove a major relief for Delhi
Public Library, which has about 45,000 members and users from across the world who can now
easily locate favourite books out of its huge collection. They will have a far less
cumbersome task to locate the required books than it used to be till date.
--ANI
