Resource sharing through INDEST Consortium: a case study of IIT Guwahati

The emerging information technologies have brought about many changes in academic libraries. These technologies have facilitated librarians to work together in consortia to acquire and mount shared collections and provide digital library services to the users. INDEST Consortium, set up by the MHRD (Ministry of Human Resources Development), is instrumental in taking initiatives to deal with this fast emerging scenario in the country. This paper provides an overview of the approach that the INDEST consortium has taken to promote consortia based resource sharing among the member libraries. The paper also presents the infrastructure available with IIT Guwahati for delivering these benefits to its users.