Management of E-resources in Digital Era: Issues and Challenges

The Purpose of this research paper is to discuss the issues and challenges of managing e-resources for its effective contribution in information retrieval and dissemination for access to all. E-resources and the library services based on e-resources to users has a wide acceptability in electronic environment because of its nature, easiness in delivery of quality contents, its coverage , stability and reliability as well as saving in terms of money, time and energy to satisfy variety of information needs of society. It will discuss the various forms and role of e- resources in libraries and information centers, selection criteria for e-resources, various softwares available for managing e-resources in libraries, the tools and techniques that can be effectively used for effective management of e-resources , the role of digitization to develop collection in the dual print and electronic environment