Very happy to know this, definitely a step to have national consortia and national licensing. Kudos to INFLIBNET and Dr. Arora. Vijay ---------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, Manager, University Library Collections and Information Services, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, www.kaust.edu.sa On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:16 PM, Prof. Siddamallaiah HS wrote: Dear Friends Congratulation for the effort ... happy about the sportive attitude of Dr.Goudar It is high time to think about attitudes of apex bodies like AICTE, IMC, including NAAC who are working independent of these effort or ignoring the effort and expenditure -- while reviewing the guidelines None of the apex bodies are interested to know about --- what is happening in information service --- they have not updated their Guidelines on par with the development. One more very bad development in all these consortia --- majority are publishers-driven not users-driven More than national consortia --- there is an urgent need for national guidelines in consortia development than consortia itself I hope LIS professional along with related bodies make an concerted effort or otherwise --- apex bodies will try to look into efforts of various other sectors ... specifically information service Apex Bodies also are not bothered about the quality of the staff .... Many library and information centers/ service are killed by the institution ( like Indian institute of Science set a bad precedence to libraries ) by placing professor in-charge (as an additional charge) God only can save academia, research or a learning environment Long Live .... the libraries or digital libraries or information centres or learning resources centres Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah Ex-Visiting Professor, Mahasarakham University, Thailand Ex-Principal Librarian and Information Officer NIMHANS, Bangalore, India On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Ishwar Goudar

wrote:

Dear Professionals,

It is learnt that UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium (including N-List) and INDEST Consortium have been merged and combined entity would be operated by UGC-INFLIBNET.

A welcome development, a step towards National Consortia. Let us congratulate all those concerned, specifically Dr. Jagadish Arora, Director INFLIBNET.

This combined bargaining power can give access to more number of E-Resources to beneficiaries both Consortia.

Regards,

"Access E-Resources for Academic and Research Excellence"

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Adjunct Professor, Mangalore University - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, BANGALORE - 560056 - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar@gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line)

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