DELNET membership fee

[Biju Varghese]

Hi professionals....

Every year DELNET increasing their membership fee. Last year it was 7500.00 only, for the 2013-2014 year renewal they have fixed their rate as 11,500.00. Is it justifiable ??? . Is they are providing that much of services???

[VAITHIYANATHAN]

this is too much of cost and really delnet does not may provide for their users such valuable informations

[Sukhwinder Randhawa]

Dear Biju

After the application of ICT in Libraries and Information Centre no Need to pay DELNET like intermediator. Bc. DELNET charge courier and processing charges for any type of information/Documents. Delnet only play  role as  intermediator between instittutions and make profits in the form of Memberships fee and other charges. Delnet only have union catalogue and other databases which link on DELNET website actually free for all or in Public Domain. So no need to pat fee to DELNET and if you need information kindly approached directly to concerned Institutions.

 

[Manjunatha Keralapura]

Dear Mr. Srinivas Rao,

the DELNET rate is not increased. there are two parts in subscription. first part Rs.7500 and second part Rs.4000 i fyou need ILL facility from DELNET. the membership fee alone will not qualify for availing ILL facility.  but unfortunately, members will not realise that cannot use ILL with Rs.7500/. They   pay membership fee and get surprised when they are not able to get ILL service and blame them for the same.

of late, DELNET migh have found increasing number of requests for ILL from memebrs who have paid only membership fee. this might have prompted DELNET for including ILL charge also in membership fee. I have not experienced any such incidence as we are paying Rs.11500 for past several years and getting benefit of ILL extensively. we are also reciprocating to thier ILL requests.

Dr. Manjunatha K, Chief Librarian, TAPMI, Manipal