PLANNER 2005

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    Collection Development and Content Management of Electronic Resources in Knowledge Exchange & Information Center (KEIC) at MICA
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Yagnik, Shailesh R.; Raval, C. N.
    Digital resource has emerged as complementary and substitute to printresource. But electronic has become vital source of information. MICA KEIChas experience in handling various electronic resources; it requiresinitiatives and interest to know new things. Subscription management requires continuous tracking to know that along with print subscription library will get free access to electronic journals, with little premium or to pay full subscription. This helps for retrospective searches. Association membership gives the benefits of free subscription and access to electronic resources. Commercial database has got high subscription cost but access to resources from retrospective dates. Electronic resources are cheaper because of aggregator but challenges lies with the librarian for an optimum use of resources subscribed by library. The use study, users study, actual demand and potential demand will help the librarian to take the right decision.
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    Collection Development in the Electronic Environment: Challenges before Library Professionals
    (2005-11-10) Kumbar, B D; Hadagali, Gururaj S
    Economic forces and technological advances have combined together to create a new environment, which is popularly known as ‘Electronic’ environment. Where access to collective scholarly resources that no library could ever afford, supersedes the historic quest for the great comprehensive collection. This article describes briefly the impact of Electronic publishing on collection development in libraries. Discusses about the selection criteria, pricing issues and models for different electronic formats and enlist the challenges before library professionals in the changed context.