Dear Chudamani, Most of the engineering colleges are already members of INDEST and getting the foreign journal access at a reduced rate. As far as sharing of books is concerned DELNET is doing a wonderful job by sending books through courier in the fastest possible time for all its member libraries. I get many books which are out of print or out of stock for reference through DELNET and my users are overjoyed by this. It is only when we provoide what the user wants, in the shortest possible time, somehow or the other, their faith in the library system increases, and you can see you readership and usage increasing by leaps & bounds. Provoide what they want, of course keeping the quality collections in mind. You can see the result yourself. When you cannot get what they want communicate the reason, either by mail or over phone to explain. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.