Shifting Paradigm from Books to E-Books in Academic Library: A Boom for Users and Librarians

ICT has changed the total scenario of modern library and librarianship. With rapid growth and development in the use of ICT and internet in library, a huge potential exists in the ways the information is published and made available to the library users. Over the decades, there is also a lot of change in information publication world. Libraries have to play a very important role in this fast changing e-environment of publishing. The goal of any academic libraries is to meet the teaching, research and other information needs of the users. The proliferation of the literature on all the subjects, prices of books climb in currency conversion rate and the budget crunch made the libraries depend upon e-books. This paper discusses the necessity of ebook to meet the current demand of academic institutions at affordable cost with their merit and demerits.