E-resources

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Education and library services are the two faces of the same coin. The library is the backbone of all the academic activities and it is the heart of an educational institution. The primary purpose of an academic library is to support teaching, research and other academic programmes and extension activities. Academic libraries serve two complimentary purposes: to support the college’s curriculum, and to support the research of the college faculty and students. The user community of College Library comprises students, teachers, staff and extension workers. Usually the students heavily depend upon text-books and such other recommended documents referred to by their teachers. Therefore the collection of a college library mostly consists of recommended textbook and reference book, fiction and non-fiction books. The basic responsibility of an academic library being to support the teaching-learning, research and extension programme of the parent institution, the collection has to be built up accordingly.

An academic library is a part of service organization whose primary role is to promote excellence in curricular and co-curricular programmer by way of providing easy and convenient access to documents and information contained in document. Library services for students have never been as important for students as they are today. In this age of information explosion and changes frontiers of educational scenario calls for access to the knowledge and lifelong learning and literacy skills to develop potentialities with the studies.
The academic libraries are witnessing tremendous changes due to the developments of information technology and the phenomenal rise of electronic resources. The academic library collections are no more only in p...

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• User does not require binding and repair.
• They save human resources for shelving and rectification.
• User can not misplace e- books.

The purpose of an academic library will always be to support the needs of its users with the most relevant highest quality information resources, and no change in format will alter this. With electronic as with print resources, quality level, and relevance must remain primary. Information that was basically available in printed format such as books , journals etc. now exists in electronic format such as e-books, e-journals, etc that are called as e-resources. 21st century library users demand access to electronic materials. They use computers to search and receive information, create documents and communicate with each others. It the academic librarians duty to meet the users need.

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