Biswas, Bidhan Ch; Dasgupta, Swapan K(INFLIBNET Centre, February NaN, 2003)
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Abstract:
Discusses briefly the concept and significance of resource sharing in Indian context with a view to justify on the basis of tremendous
growth as well as diversity of explicit knowledge, increased users’ demands, diminished budgets, galloping prices for subscribing
periodicals and purchasing books, etc. Papers suggest that resource sharing is inevitable among libraries and mentions the concepts, the
areas and modalities for cooperation through library consortia in the networked information environment. This paper also covers growth
as well as points out merits and demerits of library consortia and the future prospect of consortia in Indian scenario.