The document discusses the importance of resource sharing among libraries to meet the diverse needs of users due to the proliferation of literature and increasing information demands. It outlines modern resource sharing practices enabled by technology, including inter-library loans, cooperative acquisitions, and shared cataloging, all aimed at optimizing library resources. Additionally, it emphasizes the ethical responsibility of libraries to ensure access to a broad range of materials without censorship.

1. PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS
Resourc
e
Sharing

2. INTRODUCTION
No library is able to satisfy all the needs of its User
This gave rise to the concept of Library Cooperation
The concept is now known as Resource Sharing
Library Cooperation remained confined to inter-library loan
Even inter-library loan was not being practiced widely

3. CONTINUE…
 Internet and other local and national networks have facilitated
resource sharing
 E-resources have further facilitated information exchange
 Emergence of library consortia is a promising development
 Advent of ICT has opened up new opportunities for greater
cooperation among libraries
 Emergence of Library Consortia is a promising development
for Resource Sharing

4. RESOURCE SHARING
Resource sharing is a mode of library operation
whereby all or part of the library functions are shared
in common among several libraries, as the goal of
resource sharing is to maximize the availability of
materials and services at the minimum expense.
Library resources comprise manpower material,
function, method and services. Resource sharing
encompasses information, bibliographical and textual
database, cooperative acquisition, cataloguing,
manpower, equipment, expertise and services.
Resource sharing via network implies automation,
data communication and effective cooperation.

5. RESOURCE SHARING
 Resource sharing does not merely mean mutual sharing of
information sources among libraries
 It will mean utilizing information resources of one library for
generating services of another library
 Information Resources and Library Resources are not
synonymous
 Library Resources may include other resources, besides
information resources, like staff and equipment

6. CONTINUE…
 Thus Resource Sharing may mean sharing of all these
resources for the mutual benefit of libraries and their users
 In this sense connotation of Library Cooperation and
Resource Sharing will be almost same

7. NEED FOR RESOURCE SHARING
 Proliferation of literature in each and every
field of knowledge;
 Multiplicity of documents in different
subjects, languages and formats;
 Development of new subjects and subject
specialization;
 Increase of reading community and
information seekers;
 Diversity of user groups and their
information needs;

8. NEED FOR RESOURCE SHARING
 Demand of pinpointed, exhaustive and
expeditious information services;
 Increased access to information and services
at existing cost;
 Increase in Quantity/Cost;
 Demand for expertise and rare documents;
 Space constraint;
 Budget constraint.

9. OBJECTIVES OF RESOURCE SHARING
 Optimization of information resources
through shared cataloguing, ILL services,
collection development and avoiding
duplication.
 Pooled resources can help to arrange greater
resource centers.
 Document selection.
 Provide, through cooperative acquisition by
voluntary organization, materials beyond the
reach of individual libraries.

10. AREAS OF RESOURCE SHARING
 Inter-library loan
 Cooperative acquisition
 Specialized purchasing programs
 Centralized processing
 Shared Cataloguing
 Sharing of bibliographical data
 Centralized periodical collection for loan purposes
 Cooperative microfilming
 Preparation and maintenance of union catalogue and union list of
serials
 Exchange of publications
 Exchange of expertise.

11. RESOURCE SHARING THROUGH
NETWORKS
Advantages
Bibliographic literature explosion controlling
Avoiding duplication
Improving the mobility of data
Flow of information among special information
centres

12. SOURCE & RESOURCE
 The concept of Information Resource is often not defined
properly
 Library documents are called Information Sources as they
provide information
 They are also called Information Resources
 But the terms Information Source and Information Resource
are not interchangable
 A Source is one that makes something available, but a
Resource helps in creating something new

13. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
The American Library Association affirms that all
libraries are forums for information and ideas, and
that the following basic policies should guide their
services.
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14. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
 Books and other library resources should be
provided for the interest, information, and
enlightenment of all people of the community
the library serves. Materials should not be
excluded because of the origin, background,
or views of those contributing to their
creation

15. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
 Libraries should provide material and
information presenting all points of view on
current and historical issues. Materials should
not be proscribed or removed because of
partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

16. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
 Libraries should challenge censorship in the
fulfillment of their responsibility to provide
information and enlightenment