Academic Libraries for the 21st Century

This paper focuses on new paradigms and strategies that are ought to be considered from the perspectives of information technology and the critical information needs of academic library users, amidst the stress of reduced budgets and decreased buying power. The paper also discusses the effective solutions to meet the evolving information needs of the campus and the larger academic community

Availability of library and information science electronic journals throughUGC- INFONET project

65-69The University Grants Commission (UGC) has contributed substantially towards facilitating access to scholarly resources toresearch scholars and faculty members by introducing the UGC-INFONET Project. The project envisages bringing about aqualitative change in the academic infrastructure in Indian universities. The research and academic community in the universitiescan now have timely and easy access to journals and other electronic resources. The paper provides an insight in to the UGC-INFONETProject and aims to create awareness to the library and information professionals, research scholars, and faculty andpost graduate students of library and information science regarding the availability of the scholarly journals in the field oflibrary and information science