ROLE OF E-RESOURCES IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

New technologies have always been of interest for libraries both for the
potential of increasing the quality of service and for improving efficiency of
operations. At present libraries of all kinds whether public, research academic or
special libraries are overwhelmingly looking forward to adopt new technologies
mostly use of e-resources due to its potential for cost savings in operations and the
management of collections and Patrons. E- Resources are digital objects containing
electronic representation of books, journals and other form of reading materials and
they are converted into a digitized form in order to be read by a computer.