Introduction
Libraries are strive to develop collection, resources and services to meet the cultural, informational, educational and recreational demands of its target users, because libraries primarily objective is to satisfy the multiple needs of its target users. On other side with the advancement of information and communication technology libraries have redefined its resources, operations, and services due to changing demands of users. These days the users prefer to browse through the internet for their information needs rather than visiting the library. The academic library cannot compete with the modern information technology in its traditional collection of print material. To attract the students and to provide better services to its users, the academic library should develop digital resources along with print materials. Though the selection, acquisition and the dissemination of e-resources are similar to print materials, but actually they are differ from print material. The selection of quality and quantity of collection is an important and challenging activity of a library. It includes process of selecting, ordering and making payment of information material. A library encompasses a numbers of activities related to development of library collection like determination and coordination of selection policy, identification of users need, user studies, selection of information material, planning of resource sharing, collection maintenance and weeding.
In digital environment collection development is undergoing a metaphoric change due to diverse e-resources which are easily available through internet. With the advancement of information and communication technology, information explosions, availability of large number of documents in electronic forms has replaced the traditional concept of library into digital or virtual library. In this context the libraries have no other option rather than building collection of e-resources. On other side the publishers did not remain behind; they took advantage of these applications to a considerable extent and tapped a treasure house of electronic and web resources. In modern digital era, librarians are also acquiring more and more e-resources to provide the right information to right user at right time. All this has created a change in the collection development in the electronic environment.