An academic library exists to support the curricular and research endeavors of the institution of which connecting link between the library and these endeavors is faculty. Faculty members teach and interpret the prescribed and elective curricula, and they also direct research the campus. on Librarians need to know much about their faculties if they are to aid faculty and students in the preservation and extension of knowledge. Librarians need to know much about their faculties if they are to provide the services to meet the faculty's and thus the institution's. mission and goals. It behooves academic libraries to respond to changing faculty opinions if libkries expect to retain their status as the major source of information on a college or university campus.