On the auspicious occassion of Rongali Bihu (for the Assamese) and Poila Boishakh (for the Bengali), on behalf of the NECOPAC team, I'm happy to announce the start of what I hope would be an exciting journey, with my professional colleagues and friends in the Library and Information Science domain from the North East of India - the NECOPAC z39.50 service. This is the first freely available public z39.50 service running on top of user-contributed bibliographic data in North Eastern India. As on date, there are 92,333 bibliographic records in the database. We are expecting more records to be contributed soon. Although its primary focus is NE India, it should be useful anyone and everyone.