Rahman, Md Anisur; Nahar, Mahmudun; Akhter, Razina(INFLIBNET Centre, November 9, 2006)
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Abstract:
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.