DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology

  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue: 3

Networking and consortia management techniques

  • Author:
  • Rama Nand Malviya, Anil Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 21 to 30

Indian Social Institute, 10 Institutional Area Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003.

Abstract

A single library has limitations of maintaining books/documents/journals and other materials demanded by its client or users. To overcome these types of problems, cooperation among the libraries was initiated and a new concept “Library Consortium” came into existence with a wide coverage. The paper describes the concept of library consortia, networking and consortia management techniques and future of consortia efforts.

Keywords

Networking, library consortia, consortia management, OCLC, e-journals