Utilization of e-ShodhSindhu consortium by faculty members of private autonomous engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh: Librarians’ perspective

Access to resources is now considered more important than collection building. The consortium facilitated the libraries to get the benefit of wider access to electronic resources at an affordable cost and the best term of licenses. A consortium with the collective strength of resources of various institutions available to it is in a better position to address and resolve the problem of managing, organizing, and archiving the electronic resources. Increase in the habit of reading, and rise in the information through sharing, with economical and cheaper with print resources. To face the challenge of global changes in technical education and to reach by the Autonomous engineering colleges, India is not far behind in providing its academic community and private engineering colleges also. To cater the needs e ShodhSindhu a national consortium is providing e-journals and e-databases to all Indian community and using the same by Private Autonomous colleges is being centred.