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Delhi varsity turns tech-savvy

Mandira Nayar

Three lakh library books will now be available on a mouse-click

NEW DELHI: Delhi University just got smaller. Moving from an administrative unit to become an academic whole, teachers in different colleges across the city will soon be able to access the University library with just a few clicks. With a part of the vast collection of the library finally getting on to the University mammoth network of computers that links most undergraduate colleges together, three lakh books will now be available to teachers.

"The University Library system should be one whole and should be accessible to everyone. Now it will be possible for a teacher sitting in Gargi College in South Delhi to access the library system for research work without having to run all the way to the North Campus," said Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental.

Having taken three years of hard work by Delhi University Computer Centre and lots of cabling to get everyone connected, the last few colleges will jump on to the network bandwagon in the next three weeks. The IT hub for the University, the Computer Centre has been responsible for all the technology advancements made.

"It is the largest network in the city. There are 3,000 nodes on a single network and the bandwidth is 20 mbps. The University subscribes to many periodicals and electronic journals and all these are available on the system. All that a teacher needs to do is log on to the network through the computer and all the choices are there," said Delhi University Computer Centre Director Shobhit Mahajan.

Opening the gateway of the University wisdom to more than just the college circle, this network allows, ordinary Internet surfers to also log on and get access to 4,000 journals. Apart from access to e-periodicals, teachers and students can also get to read books from University of Guttenberg and University of Adelaide.

It provides teachers and research students with the Internet and their own e-mail address.

"The library catalogue system is being digitised. Teachers will now be able to get access this catalogue of three lakh books. If they want a particular book, they would be able to know whether it has been checked out or not from the University Library," said Prof. Mahajan.

Placing a huge thrust on technology, the University is all set to provide every college with 40 computers. "It is a huge investment of Rs. 10 crores and the University will acquire 3,000 computers soon. The network provides teachers with 10 MB of space for their webpage. There is e-print document where they can put up their work," said Prof. Mahajan.

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