Don’t write the library’s obit yet

Sridhar, M. S. Don’t write the library’s obit yet., 2007 [Newspaper/magazine article]

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English abstract

The article as an extension of “the task of digital information management”( DH Education, July 19, 2007 http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00010882/) discusses the issues of e-journals, consortia approach to resource sharing, problem of access to excess, the loss of value addition of libraries, content dilution, disinter-mediation and identity crisis of librarianship in the new digital environment.

Item type: Newspaper/magazine article
Keywords: E-journals, consortia approach, resource sharing, disinter-mediation, information overload, digital resources, digitization, information management
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology
Depositing user: Dr. M S Sridhar
Date deposited: 13 Aug 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:09
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10192

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