The main purpose of Consortium is to facilitate national and international research scholar through developing cooperation and communication among the Pakistani Libraries in order to:

Develop secondary resources like
  • Abstracting and indexing database of Pakistani Digital resources entitled “Digital Repository of Indigenous Literature”
  • Creation of Union Online Public Access Catalogue (Union OPAC) for books and monographs of literature.
  • Generation of union list of International scientific research databases subscribed by S&T and R&D organizations of Pakistan
Scope of the Consortium of S&T and R&D libraries of Pakistan (CSTRDLP)

This consortium will consist of central library of universities, seminar libraries of Science faculty, libraries of centers of Excellence and Scientific organization’s libraries