(INFLIBNET Centre, 2003-02) Biradar, B S; Sampath Kumar, B T
Indian Libraries are facing the problems to meet the user(s) requirements. It may be due
to exponential growth in literature, price escalation, budget restrictions etc. In turn the
number of books/journals purchased by libraries have gone down. This demands the
library professionals to think of alternative ways and mechanism to fulfill the users needs
within the available budget. In recent past consortia receiving lot of attention from the
information producing and managing community to face the unending fiscal constraints.
This paper illustrates what is consortium, why consortia approach? How consortia
approach? And lastly paper discuss the benefits of consortia approach.