Library Consortia

This paper critically analyses 199 peer-reviewed articles published in Sankhyā during 2003 to 2007. It examines authorship pattern, collaboration trend among authors, predominant areas of statistical research, and time lag in publications. Subsequent analysis focuses on prolific
contributors, degree of collaboration, collaboration density, active sub-domains of statistics and time lag trend. Findings reveal the following: (a) the number of articles reduced from 24.6% to 14.0% that conforms to the growth trend of statistical publications in India; (b) single-authored paper counts only 30%, the rest in collaboration either by two-authors (47%) or three-to-five authors (23%) and average authorship accounts for 1.96 per paper; (c) contributors of Sankhyā worked in highly collaborative manner and the degree of collaboration (CC=0.698) is quite significant; and (d) most of the bilateral and multilateral collaborations has emanated from 12 institutions of 5 different countries. Ranked list of prolific authors has been carried out using fractional counting method. It is observed that author productivity is not in agreement with Lotka’s law, but productivity distribution data partially fits the law when the value of a approximated to 2.77 and the number of papers does not exceed two. Broad subject clusters, such as statistics (153)
and probability theory (38) constituted about 96% of the contributed articles. Nonparametric inference (18%), parametric inference (15%), design of experiments (10%) and multivariate analysis (8%) are found to be active areas of research in Statistics. The study shows an average time lag of fifteen months to publish an article, and a declining trend of time lags following second-degree polynomial type has been observed in this scholarly journal.

The paper describes about the usage of E-Resources available under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium and DeLCON Consortium by the scientific community Library Users of Assam University, Silchar representing from Bio-Medical Sciences and Ecology and Environmental Sciences.Survey method has been used using questionnaire as a data collection tool and Interview in some cases. Altogether 150 questionnaire was distributed and 117 responses received. This study was conducted during January 2013 to May 2013 only. This is a comparative study of utilisation of e-resources available under these two important consortia. The survey findings reveals that e-resources available under UGC-INFONET is more popular and heavily utilised by the scientific community of Assam University Library and they prefer to access e-resources mainly from their respective department and the evening is the preferred time among the teachers , scholars and students. The library users suggested to organised regular User Awareness Programme and enhance the infrastructural facilities in the departmental and university library.

Key Words: E-Resources, UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, DeLCON Consortium, Assam University, Silchar, Bio-Medical Sciences, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

INDEST – AICTE is one of the most useful library consortia related to engineering, Science and technology in India. This consortia has significant mission, objectives and major activities. It follows scientific method to selection of E resources. AICTE library consortia has divided its members in to three types on different basis. It provides good services to its member. It provides several types of E Resources to its user by resource sharing and globalization of education purpose.

The library environment is currently undergoing a rapid and dynamic revolution leading to new generation of libraries with the emphasis one-resources. In this era of information explosion E-resources are inevitable to support education, research and development of universities. So many of the libraries in India especially university libraries have started providing access to more and more e-resources for supporting educational and research programs. The universities in Kerala also adapted to these new ICT developments and increased the access to e-resources. This study helps to find out the electronic resources and the pattern of organization of electronic sources in the universities in Kerala. The present study point out that even though the library consortium provides a wide range of e-resources in different subjects, university libraries in Kerala due to the limitations of library consortiums are forced to subscribe online databases of E-journals, E-books and Electronic Thesis and Dissertations directly.

For developing countries like the Philippines, there is a remarkable range of cooperative activities and consortial arrangements that even transcend geographical boundaries. This article presents an overview of Philippine experience with library cooperation, their commonalities and variations, the significant contributions of different library consortia to the growth and development of libraries within and outside their sphere of influence, and the challenges these local models of consortia are facing in this digital age.

The paper describes about the usage of E-Resources available under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium and DeLCON Consortium by the scientific community Library Users of Assam University, Silchar representing from Bio-Medical Sciences and Ecology and Environmental Sciences.Survey method has been used using questionnaire as a data collection tool and Interview in some cases. Altogether 150 questionnaire was distributed and 117 responses received. This study was conducted during January 2013 to May 2013 only. This is a comparative study of utilisation of e-resources available under these two important consortia. The survey findings reveals that e-resources available under UGC-INFONET is more popular and heavily utilised by the scientific community of Assam University Library and they prefer to access e-resources mainly from their respective department and the evening is the preferred time among the teachers , scholars and students. The library users suggested to organised regul...

The emergence of the ICT, particularly the World Wide Web, has increased the importance of e-resources. The phenomenon of consortia or group of libraries buying e-information together has become very important in the recent years. Now there is tremendous growth in e-resources and it also result in the increase of its cost. The ICT also facilitated the establishment of library consortia for maintaining e- resources together. In India, during the last few years, there is remarkable increase in the use e-resources which is achieved through library consortia. This paper gives a bird's eye view of library consortia initiatives in India.

No library resource center of the world is self-sufficient to meet the various information needs of the users. With the rapid growth of publications, knowledge explosion, shrinking resources, escalation of prices and ever-increasing expectations of users compelled the library and information centers to go for networking for resource sharing. The most important goal networking is to maximize the availability of resources & services at minimum expenses. Keeping in view the above points in mind the paper briefly mentions about networking and briefly mentions different library networks available in India. It further explains the need of the INDOLIBNET and objectives of networking among the libraries and information centres in North East India. Further, it enumerates issues involved in establishing such network; point out the constraints & finally the author has given the suggestions for the success of such networks. INTORDUCTION " Knowledge should be available to all as Universally as the air we breathe, The water that quenches thirst and the Sun's Energy that sustains the cycle of life " Sri Chilakamarthi Laxminarasimharm's Granthalaya Vedam (miniature manifesto) Library & Information Professionals are fully aware of the phenomenon of ever increasing trend in the cost of books and periodicals. On the other hand, library budgets have been going through a stage of stringency for the last few years. As a result, libraries are struggling for continuation of current periodicals and purchase of new books. The academic institutions can cope with this problem only by networking and resource sharing.

This chapter discusses the different aspects of cooperation and collaboration initiatives for libraries that includes associated opportunities, issues, and challenges. A proposed model for library consortia is depicted to illustrate the benefits that can help institutes to overcome these issues and challenges faced by the libraries for smooth functioning. The proposed cross-resource sharing model may provide an appropriate platform for both institutes and publishers that can enhance the library cooperation and collaboration in a much more effective way by overcoming the fund issues and to enable a suitable platform in improvising the library services. By achieving a successful and appropriate library consortia model, the cooperation and collaboration initiatives for the libraries gives an effective result and better services to its users.

Gunjal, B. D. (2020). Library Consortia as Cooperation and Collaboration Initiative for Libraries: A Proposed Model. In C. Chisita (Ed.), Cooperation and Collaboration Initiatives for Libraries and Related Institutions (pp. 231-242). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-0043-9.ch012
Url: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3579

Recognizing the digital opportunities available, the libraries of eight educational institutions in Minnesota built on a previously existing consortial relationship in order to explore the possibility of sharing a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). This article discusses the experience of these institutions as they chose CONTENTdm and the considerations made when settling on an option viable for a consortium. It elaborates on the shared cost considerations, hardware purchases, and the consortium's experience as it purchased and implemented the software, formalized avenues of communication, and established collection standards. We close by discussing the opportunities, challenges, and rewards experienced by those involved.

Consortium is becoming a prime way for online resource sharing & Thomson
Reuters Web of Science is a premier research platform, helping to find, analyze, and share
information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Therefore, the present study
discusses the “Consortia” as reflected in Web of Science for the period from 1989–2016. This study
investigates the highly productive authors, Document Type wise, Country wise, Language wise,
Publication year wise, Research area wise, Source Title or Journal wise.

Interview with Lluís Anglada, director of the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC). Among other topics, the current and the future situation of libraries, the role of library consortia, the evolution of CBUC and OCLC, and the open access policies are discussed.
Entrevista a Lluís Anglada, director del Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya (CBUC). Entre otros temas, se trata la situación actual y el futuro de las bibliotecas, el papel de los consorcios de bibliotecas, la evolución del CBUC y de OCLC, y las políticas de acceso abierto.

Report to the International Federation of Library Associations for the Academic and Research Libraries on a summary detail of the activities related to library consortia development in Latin America.  Project will be a full report on consortia development for intended use by other developing countries.

For developing countries like the Philippines, there is a remarkable range of cooperative activities and consortial arrangements that even transcend geographical boundaries. This article presents an overview of Philippine experience with library cooperation, their commonalities and variations, the significant contributions of different library consortia to the growth and development of libraries within and outside their sphere of influence, and the challenges these local models of consortia are facing in this digital age.

Today, In the modern innovative technological environment or world, the enormous development of web technologies plays an important role as use of the web of information, interactive & collaborative Portals or platform, semantic web, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, etc. The first stage (web 1.0) of the web was considered as a one-way communication or read-only web. The second stage (web 2.0) was started as a web emerging tool in the context of social media. And third stage (web 3.0) of the web is regarded as semantic or intelligent web. This paper focuses especially on Web 3.0(semantic or metadata web) tool with its some definitions and concepts in the internet world that provide various web technologies to empower the communication between Machines and human being by creating or constructing flexible intelligent information system or semantic web structure with define various web components, characteristics, advantages & emerging challenges.

Usage of electronic journal in an academic consortia environment provides us with an
interesting result on the pattern of user’s behavior. The paper  is an attempt  to identify the
pattern of users downloading behavior  through COUNTER complain usage statistic 2011 by
adopting Pareto  80/20 rule.  UGC-Infonet consortium is UGC-INFLIBNETinitiative that
subscribes to 19 publishers of  aggregators, society and commercial publishers.  The result of the
study indicates that Pareto 80/20 rule applies to publishers whose  journal bundles are  more in
number when individually publishers are analyse. But contrastingly, consolidated usage on all
the journals when put together demonstrates a closer 80/20 pattern of usage.

Present paper discusses the effectiveness of the E-ShodhSindhu. It is a Consortia of thre different consortium. Beginning from the electronic resource and consortia the paper describes services provided by this consortia. It is helpful consortia for accessing various electronic resources e-books, e-journals and e-databases etc. E-ShodhSindhu is basically combination of three library consortium.

Library Consortia is the sharing of resources among the participant’s libraries. Library consortia were formed to meet challenges and embrace opportunities as new electronic information resources hit the market. A primary role for library consortia is to negotiate licenses which provide for access to desired content at the best possible price, with the best possible terms. The concept of Library Consortia in India is slowly growing up. Many initiatives have been initiated in India for the formation of library consortia like UGC INFONET, CSIR Consortium, INDEST-AICTE, FORSA etc. This paper briefly discusses the concept, need, advantages, disadvantages, different consortia models and also the major consortia initiatives in India.

Libraries today are facing increasing demands for services while struggling with challenges such as the rise in the amount of information resources, high cost of library materials, high expectations of users, budget cuts and much more. Today libraries have to face change management, and they are seeking tools to cope with it through developing strategic alliances with other libraries. Library consortia are created to help libraries obtain better prices by buying joint access for a greater number of users, expanding access to print and electronic collections and developing new services to meet their customers' needs.

Değerlendirme Sonuç Kaynakça 20. Yüzyılda teknolojinin tam bir ivme yakalaması ile birlikte bilgi kaynaklarının artışı ve bu bilgi kaynaklarının tamamını kullanmak veya tamamına sahip olmak imkânsız bir hal almıştır. Bilgi merkezlerinin kullanıcıların hizmetine sunacağı bilgi ve belgeler, kütüphaneler arası işbirliği sayesinde gerçekleşmektedir. Kütüphaneler arası işbirliği ile ortak çalışmalar yürütülerek, bilgi merkezlerine kataloglama, bilgi ve belgeye erişim ve eğitim gibi konularda zaman ve bütçe anlamında çok büyük kolaylıklar sağlamaktadır. Kütüphaneler arası yapılan bu işbirliği çalışmalarının belirtilen hedeflerinin başarıya ulaşması ve kısa ömürlü olmaması için oluşturulan konsorsiyumlar ile birlikte olumlu gelişmeler yaşanmıştır. İşbirliğin bir parçası olan konsorsiyumlar, kütüphane ve bilgi merkezlerinde hizmetler ile ilgili yeni fikirler, yapılan işleri geliştirme ve diğer kütüphane ve bilgi merkezlerinde gerçekleştirilecek yeni çalışmaları takip ederek işbirliği çalışmalarının arttırılmasına önemli katkılar sağlayacaktır. Bu çalışmada literatür taraması ve veri değerlendirmeleri yapılarak kanıta dayalı bir yaklaşım ile içerik analizleri yapılacaktır. Bu analizler sonucunda kütüphanelerde işbirliği modellerinden yola çıkarak, işbirliğinin önündeki engellerin çözümü noktasında konsorsiyumların rolü incelenecektir. Kütüphanelerde işbirliğinin temel hedefi, kütüphanelerin kullanılabilirliğini en üst seviyeye çıkararak bu anlamda eşitliği, karşılıklı olarak adil bir şekilde yaratma ve işletme potansiyeline kavuşturmak, kütüphaneler ve bilgi sağlayıcıları arasında ortak bir fayda doğrultusunda yararlanmayı sağlamak, daha kapsamlı olan tüm potansiyel kullanıcılara bilgi sağlayıp kullanıcılar için değerli ve/veya ortak çalışanlar arasında daha düşük maliyetler ile daha kısa zamanda bir tasarruf sağlamaktır. Konsorsiyumlar, kütüphane personelinin karşılıklı ortak hedefler için oluşturduğu kolektif çalışma birliktelikleridir. Konsorsiyumlar, kaynakların paylaşımını yararlı işbirlikleri ile ortak olan hedefleri geliştirmek için oluşturulmaktadırlar. Gelişen teknolojinin beraberinde getirmiş olduğu bilgi yığını sebebiyle koleksiyonların yeni teknolojilere, maliyetleri azaltarak yeni projeler ile uyarlanması, konsorsiyumların ortaya çıkmasını sağlamıştır.

SEALS is a strategic partnership between the four institutions in the Eastern Cape. Its missions is to …
to foster improvement in access to information resources,
to support and enhance high standards of teaching, research and scholarship in member institutions
by promoting resource sharing of human, material and information resources between academic institutions within the region.
It should be considered how strongly the digitisation and access provision of primary and secondary resources, supports this mission

For developing countries like the Philippines, there is a remarkable range of cooperative activities and consortial arrangements that even transcend geographical boundaries. This article presents an overview of Philippine experience with library cooperation, their commonalities and variations, the significant contributions of different library consortia to the growth and development of libraries within and outside their sphere of influence, and the challenges these local models of consortia are facing in this digital age.

Dix ans de plaidoyer du Consortium des bibliothèques d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche du Sénégal (COBESS) pour l'accès libre à l'information scientifique et technique. Bilan et perspectives du projet pilote de mise en place d'un dépôt institutionnel à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

Library Consortia is the sharing of resources among the participant’s libraries. Library consortia were formed to meet challenges and embrace opportunities as new electronic information resources hit the market. A primary role for library consortia is to negotiate licenses which provide for access to desired content at the best possible price, with the best possible terms. The concept of Library Consortia in India is slowly growing up. Many initiatives have been initiated in India for the formation of library consortia like UGC INFONET, CSIR Consortium, INDEST-AICTE, FORSA etc. This paper briefly discusses the concept, need, advantages, disadvantages, different consortia models and also the major consortia initiatives in India.

"Libraries play a key role in the scholarly enterprise by facilitating access of published material to readers and researchers and negotiating with creators and publishers to provide that access. The digital revolution has been paradigm shifting for libraries. Academic libraries have responded to the radical changes and have provided access to more material than ever before but cracks are starting to form. How will libraries continue to meet the demands of shrinking budgets, changing technologies and the constant growth of content? As resources and possible uses change, how should libraries respond? What metrics should be used for evaluation and assessment?

The work of answering these questions is done both at the local level, in individual institutions, and consortially, at the provincial and national levels. An examination of what drives the consortial partnerships and their future directions will consider the place of libraries in the larger scholarly enterprise environment as well as giving insight into our uniquely Canadian academic library partnership situation."

Co-authored with Joan Rapp and Peter G. Underwood. It remains to be seen what impact the recently-formed academic library consortia will have in South Africa, both for our profession or our end-users. They can probably be described as a group of diverse entities, rough and as-yet unsure of their destination. In this descriptive text, we attempt to outline the specifics which distinguish the developing consortia in a newly democratic and newly globalised South Africa from those in other more economically advantaged parts of the world. We describe the all-important social and political background in which our institutions must operate, moving on to an analysis of the impulse to cooperate and the obstacles that have emerged to stifle that impulse. In our conclusion we risk some predictions about where academic library consortia may be headed in our part of the world.