Students increasingly view themselves as customers and consumers, expecting high-quality facilities, resources and services attuned to their needs and concerns.
Greater emphasize on library assessment to support strategic planning, improved processes and a greater understanding of users’ needs.
Academic libraries must prove the value they provide to the academic enterprise. Librarians must be able to convert the goodwill towards the library through effective communication to all stakeholders that clearly articulate its value to the academic community, how library resources contribute to student and faculty success and the environmental value of academic libraries.
Increasing emphasis on library values articulation.
Digital preservation– architecture, policy and standards and cloud based
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*The library finds itself in a unique role of mediating among producers and end users in the process of connecting researchers with pertinent resources. *The new discovery interfaces on web enhance collaboration among scholars, librarians, and technical experts to visualize, communicate, and distribute information.
Develop and deploy new initiatives, service units and resources to meet scholarly needs at various stages of the research process. Increasing support to open access publishing.
Altmetrics (alternative metrics) is a newly developing methodology for measuring the impact of scholarly works and research published on the web. Social media is also used for Altmetrics.
Staff developments to meet new challenges
The skill set for librarians continue to evolve in response to the needs and expectations of the changing populations they serve and the professional background of library staff become increasingly diverse in support of expanded service programs and administrative needs.
Need felt that librarians possess diverse skill