MANAGEMENT OF ONLINE DATABASES IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: A CASE STUDY OF JAYAKAR LIBRARY, SAVITRIBAI PHULE UNIVERSITY, PUNE

OCLC in 2003 conducted a study on “perceptions of libraries and information resources”. The major findings of this study revealed that only one percent of users and two percent of college students begin their search going to a library website (Kennedy, Marie R & LaGuardia Cheryl, 2013). This result indicated that users' first choice for searching information is “Search Engine”. If librarians are not giving proper attention to management of electronic resources, then the entire librarianship is going to perish very shortly. Keeping in mind, the challenges before librarianship, the present paper discusses the various methods and models of managing e-resources in libraries. The paper highlights major issues and shares practical experiences at Jayakar Library of Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune of managing electronic resources.