Chand, Prem; Devi, Th Satyabati; Chauhan, Suresh K(INFLIBNET Centre, November 9, 2006)
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Libraries, faced with declining budgets, increasing subscription prices have found themselves
unable to purchase all publications and materials that their users would generally
expect to have. To compensate for this, there is shift to subscribe the journals by other
models and methods. Library consortia are one of the most effective means for libraries
to subscribe to E-journals. University libraries in India are accessing e-journal under
UGC-INFONET E-journal consortium. This facility has also been extended to libraries in
North Eastern region. This paper reflects on the growing importance of usage statistics
of electronic journals, their increasing use, and in particular universities in North East
region It highlights the current usage of various e-resources accessed by the users of
different universities located in North East region.
Rahman, Md Anisur; Nahar, Mahmudun; Akhter, Razina(INFLIBNET Centre, November 9, 2006)
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The emerging Information Technologies have brought many changes in libraries. These
technologies have facilitated LIS professionals to work together to acquire and share
library collection and provide digital library services to the user community. Increase of
the literature in all subjects and shrinking of the library budget made the libraries depend
upon each other. This leads to library cooperation, resource sharing and networking.
Now the more accepted system of resource sharing is library consortia. Consortia
approach is one of the many ways of maintaining cooperation and coordination among
the libraries and in fact it has emerged as the ‘state of the art’ in library cooperation in
recent years. The online databases; electronic journals are facilitate the formation of
consortia among the libraries. This paper highlights the past and existing resource
sharing and networking status of Bangladesh. In this paper the authors also depict the
benefits of library consortia and try to provide some recommendations for the formation
of library consortia in Bangladesh.