Planning a Consortia Among the Campus Libraries of University of Madras

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2003-02

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INFLIBNET Centre

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University Libraries, with the dawn of Internet era, are compelled to provide relevant information essential to its end users within a short span of time either from its in-house holdings or from resources available in other libraries. This could be made possible only by way of Library Consortia (LC). This paper discusses the planning of LC among the major Campus Libraries of University of Madras. It identifies the need, prerequisites, problems and solutions involved in consortia formation.

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Library consortia, Resource Sharing, Library Co-operation, Consortia Planning

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