AMANDEEP COLLEGE OF NURSING IS AN INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER OF HSLIBNET AN INITIATIVE BY BFUHS
HSLIBNET – the Resource Sharing Consortium for Learning Materials.
HSLIBNET is a networking concept. It stands for Health Sciences Library Network of Punjab State.
The Baba Farid University realizes that scholarly and professional information resources like journals and books are expensive and hence building a comprehensive collection at every college was unaffordable besides leading to undesirable duplication. The solution had to come from networking the libraries in all the colleges under the university and consciously promoting a culture of cooperative procurement and resource sharing. HSLIBNET – Health Sciences Library Network is conceiving as the consortium of all the teaching and research institutions affiliated to the university to pursue this need for networking and resource sharing. Journals and books are the most expensive part of learning resources with committed annual expenditure.
Objectives of HSLIBNET
To network all the libraries under BFUHS for minimizing the cost of acquisition and maintenance of learning resources and maximizing their utilization among the faculty, students, and researchers in the colleges and institutions affiliated with the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot.
Benefits:
The following are the benefits of consortia in enhancing academic and research pursuits for the medical community:
- Resource Sharing: Unlike print where a single issue of a journal/ resource caters the need of an individual at one time, online content of journals offer unlimited access to multi-users cost-effectively with ease at their computer system by a click. The search techniques are also being refined constantly to facilitate the researchers/ faculty members/ students enabling them to add value to their study/ research.
- Accessibility to Content: As the budgets of libraries limited and the need for content is ever increasing. To meet this growing need, consortia is the most viable answer for the libraries, researchers/ faculty/ students to get access to content being subscribed across participating libraries in the consortia. It not only provides access to current content online but also backfiles of the subscribed content.
- The consortium enables access to electronic information resources at highly discounted rates of subscription.
- It facilitates the convenience of desktop access to high-quality e-resources to students and researchers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
- It facilitates better management of information resources in an electronic environment and saves you from the hassles of print resources and their management.
