Digital Resource Sharing and Networking of Management College Libraries

Abstract

Resource sharing is an important and widely well-known concept in the field of library science. The concept recognised by the term ‘library networking’ deals with the interconnection of libraries so that the participating libraries can share the information and resources effectively. It aids to overcome the limitations like enormous cost of purchase, bibliography handling, storage of material etc. as a result of the surprizing growth in the produced information. Resource sharing is a solution to optimise the library resources. Thus resource sharing in libraries has becomeessential in current scenario, and it commands world-wide acceptance. This paper reviews the present literature of resource sharing in the context to the Management institute libraries in Bangalore city of India.