Explain the need and objectives of resource sharing.

Today we are living in the age of information. Information is a dynamic and unending resource that affects all disciplines and all walks of life. Information also supports education, research, and development’. The main functions of an academic library are to acquire information from various sources and to arrange process and disseminate them to satisfy the needs of students, academicians, and researchers in the right form and at the right time. Resource Sharing becomes more important and inevitable for developing countries like India, where the information centers/libraries are short of funds and resources. Libraries encounter face problem for storing purposes and hence there is a direct need for library networks and resource sharing2. Resource sharing from its elementary concept of inter-library lending, now includes cooperative acquisition, collection development, shared cataloguing, centralized processing, exchange of content page of journals, sharing of bibliographical data, centralized periodicals collection, exchange of electronic documents and articles, obtaining photocopies of articles, etc. In India, in the past two decades, information technology has made significant progress. The current state of information handling is indeed sufficient to support and encourage the sharing resources among libraries. Especially, the present decade has witnessed renewed interest _______ ________ ________ _____ _____ ____ ______.
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