(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Kumar, B Vijaya; Murthy, A Omkar
The advent of Information and Communication Technologies and Impact of Information explosion
have brought many changes in diverse field of knowledge, especially in medical sciences
which had profound impact on medical professionals, practitioners, students in pursuing
their research and patient care. The medical professionals require pinpointed, accurate and
speedy information for updating their knowledge. Due to the elasticity of budgets and hike of
journals and books prices every year, keeping in view of user needs , libraries are forced to
join a consortium.