List of Library Consortia and Their Year of Origin

Name of the Library Consortia	Year
Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)	1997
UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium	2002
Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences & Technology (INDEST)	2003
National Library and Information services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)	2010
E-Shodh Sindhu	2015

Badan Barman at present working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam, India. He is the creator of the LIS Links (http://www.lislinks.com) - India’s most popular social networking website for Library and Information Science professionals. He also created the UGC NET Guide (http://www.netugc.com) and LIS Study (http://www.lisstudy.com) website.