These organizations have their own Libraries, Documentation Centres and Information Centres to meet the information needs of their officials. These organizations spend huge amount of their budget to purchase/subscribe books, journals etc. Sometimes it has been observed that these libraries purchase common/similar information resources separately. Thus there is a need of common purchasing and sharing of information resources among these organizations for the best utilization of their library budget as well as information resources

 

Digital Library of ICT resources

MCIT Libraries Consortium has the above areas in its purview. All the three Departments, Autonomous Bodies and PSU (s) has number of publications like Annual Reports, Standards, Patents and many important government publications. A Digital Library  of all such collections will be put on the consortium web site for general purpose in public domain wherever possible and for internal use of MCIT officials.

 

e-Journals subscription and maintenance

Looking into the trends of  e-Journals, MCIT Libraries Consortium is in the process of common subscription on Consortium Platform. Department of Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications, Department of Post and other Autonomous Bodies, PSUs  subscribe  Journals/Magazines related to ICT in print form. As the users of  our Library systems spread across the nations and cyber savvy in nature looks forward for e-version of Journals/Magazine. The most beneficial properties of e-Journals like round the clock accessibility, retrieval of information at light speed and mouse click access are the add on features to refer e-Journals.  In the common e-Journals subscription of MCIT Libraries Consortium Digital Libraries/e-Journals/Database of are enlisted.