SRELS Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue: 1

Community Network Spacenet: A new dimension for Library services

  • Author:
  • Ashalatha Laxminarsaiah
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 23 to 30

Indian Space Research Organisation HQ, Antariksh Bhavan, New BEL Road, Bangalore, 560 094, INDIA. E-mail: asha@isro.gov.in

Abstract

With the tremendous growth of Internet and other communication technologies, libraries are able to provide web-based user-centric information systems. Today's trend is to develop ‘Virtual libraries’, ‘Digital libraries’ or ‘Institutional repositories’ and to provide web-based services either on Internet or on Intranet. This paper discusses about community network infrastructure and configuration of Department of Space. The library portal is a way to disseminate and publish the products and services of the library to the users on their desktop. This paper illustrates how to set up a web portal on community network to have effective resource sharing. This paper discusses about the various web-based services through Library portal.

Keywords

Community networks, SPACENET, Web-based portal, Internet resources