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5. Licensing and Copyright: As against the print paradigm, the e-Journal subscriptions
and access models allow only licensing of the content/product for a stipulated
period of time which has several restrictions and bindings on the licensee. A number
of issues are being debated by librarians, users and publishers which need
international attention, deliberations and solution.
6. Archiving: This needs paramount attention and unfortunately is yet to be attended
least in India. Long term preservation of the invaluable wealth of information
being accumulated by the consortium is to be archived and preserved for posterity.
As the technology is fast progressing and also getting obsolete almost at high pace,
it is right time that information resources are carefully archived and preserved on a
long term basis through consortia approach and efforts.

7. Sustainability: Designing and launching a library consortium is perhaps the easier
part when compared to its long term sustenance and longevity. The management
and the members of the consortium have to strive hard in formulating and
establishing robust models towards achieving the goals.
8. Usage and Usability: The Return on Investment (ROI) of the consortium is measured
in terms of the increased usage, usability of the costly information products which
is ultimately reflected in the scientific productivity of the host institutes. It is the
earnest efforts of the consortium, the management, the researchers and faculty and
the librarians which determine the success or otherwise of any consortium.
9. Training: Training to the users is another issue that one has to give proper
consideration. Usually the users are habituated to handle the traditional resources
of information. They are reluctant to sudden change in the handling of information.
So, it is the library that has to train the users to face the new media, highlight the
benefits through orientation and training programmes.
Library consortia are really helping the researchers, faculties and the students to retrieve
the information and save their time. It benefits the libraries to procure more electronic
resources in the library with limited library budget and this is what the libraries require
in the present scenario. India should also take initiatives to establish national archival
centres like United States. The mission of the national archival centre could be to build
archival collection of important scholarly journal literature and to fill the gap in the
library collections of journal back volumes and also help to reduce long term capital costs
associated with storage.
Questions:

1. Write down the case facts.
2. What do you infer from it?
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3.5 Summary

A library can stock career information books and help those who are on - the lookout for
a career in a particular field.
Socio-economic changes affect occupational patterns, incomes, prices, value, inflation,
growth dynamics, and economic developments at the macro and micro levels.

New institutional mechanisms are being set up with the introduction of structural
innovation, application of information technologies, development of new methodologies
and techniques for creating model innovative systems and services.

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