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<p>The world has been witnessing a knowledge and information explosion during the past few decades. Over 10 million journal articles are published every year besides news items editorials and articles that are appearing in popular print media. Information professionals who would be the leaders in the twentyfirst century depend on information for their work. Access to information holds the key to development. Libraries which store houses of knowledge and information and information centers which disseminate knowledge and information form two important components of present day society. While there is a deluge of information on one hand the cost of collecting processing storing and disseminating information has been spiraling up on the other hand. This calls for heavy budgets for libraries even to maintain a reasonable level of acquisition of journals books and reports. Information buying power of libraries has been declining year after year. Because of this resource sharing and cooperative functioning through networking have become inescapable for libraries and information centers worldwide. Efficient resource sharing can be achieved by using the recent advances in information technology for realizing a network of libraries. Information technology signifies the coming together of the disciplines of electronics computer hardware and software communications (in particular telecommunications) artificial intelligence and human machine interface. This book explores these subjects and various others related to library networking.</p>
