Dhiman, Anil Kumar2010-05-202010-05-202005-11-1081-902079-2-Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1944/1401The academic environment is becoming more and more competitive in its dealings and functions and the academic culture is fast transforming as enterprising in nature. The library as the centre for scholarly communication faces many challenges in meeting needs of its users. Among the solutions used in libraries in providing information, an access strategy through web is very much requested by modern users. As such, now-a-days, the consortiumbased library purchasing is getting favour. This paper discusses some of the problematic issues in consortium – based library subscriptionenInformation technologyLibrary consortium and Information useArticle