1. * AEROLIBNET: Development of Union Catalogue of Holdings of Indian Aerospace Libraries  Mr. I.R.N. Goudar  Mrs. Poornima Narayana  Mr. Satyaranjan Dey  Mrs. Jayashree S  Mr. Vijaianand S K Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore - 17 * Project proposal submitted to AIP AR&DB for support on 12-03-2003

2. Amount of grant proposed for Grants (in rupees) 1st year 2nd year 3rd year (a) Research staff (2 Project Assistants for 2 years and one for third year @ Rs.8000 PM) 1,92,00 0 96,00 0 (b) Two Web Servers + 1 PC 3,50,0 00 NIL ( c) Software4,00,0 00 25,00 0 NIL (d) Consumable stores, chemicals, etc. 15,00020,00 0 (e) Contingencies 30,00040,00 0 (f) TA/DA 30,000 Total: (g) Others (Pl. specify) Overheads @ 15% of total cost 10,17,0 00 1,52,55 0 3,07,0 00 46,50 0 1,86,0 00 27,90 0 Total:11,69,5 50 3,53,5 00 2,13,9 00

3. Objectives of the project i) Develop the union catalogue database of print and electronic document sources held in Indian Aerospace libraries. ii) Provide access to above mentioned database through Internet. iii) Create database of Aerospace libraries with necessary details and give links to home pages of concerned libraries. iv) Provide inbuilt Inter Library Lending request facility. v) Provide contact details facilitating communication among Indian Aerospace Libraries.

4. Functionality of the system  Duplication removal facility for same documents held by different libraries, but indicating all library locations  Merging the records  Uniform Indexing  Updation either directly by participating organization or host organization  Automatic handling of Inter Library Lending.

5. ICAST strength  Rich collection more than 4.5 lakh collection  State of the art library with fully automated house keeping activities.  OPAC with more than 3 lakh records  AeroInfo: An Internet gateway for Aerospace science and Technology.  Library website with all functionalities.  Internet/Intranet/E-mail based Information services.  Technically strong manpower to handle the project.  Campuswide network with 1MB access to Internet  More than 17 network points in the libary