A paper by Ms Maitrayee Ghosh, Assistant Librarian of P.K. Kelkar Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Abstract:
With the generous support of Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore I spent six weeks in Singapore this summer (mid March to April, 2007) under ACRC research Fellowship, visited different academic libraries and completed the literature survey for my PhD dissertation. I have come away with a fuller understanding not only of library consortia, but of resource sharing activities in Asia as well. I feel that I succeeded in meeting my fellowship goals using my own observations and through literature search. I visited the Library almost every day, following up on meetings with the faculty members of SCI, University Librarian at Lee Wee Nam Library and subject librarians seeking background knowledge on broad themes in my research area. Needless to say, my experiences in Singapore this summer were immensely valuable and rewarding. I focused on designing the questionnaire for collecting data related to the library resource sharing and consortia and expanded my knowledge in this area. After going through the commercial full text as well as bibliographic databases available online, I began collecting materials such as organizational newsletters, action alerts, library brochures, master dissertations, annual reports, and other grey literature. I am pleased to report that the ACRC fellowship has enabled me to make substantial progress in my doctoral research.

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