Academic Libraries Present Scenario
Academic libraries include college and university libraries. Commonly referred to
as research libraries, they are often used by students and research scholar as a
quiet place for study and research. The same use behaviour is common to most
academic libraries. The college libraries has to deal with information resources in
variety of formats and attempting to select the most appropriate and economically
viable formats for providing access to information in their libraries.
There has been a more change in the academic libraries due to the revolution in
e-resources era. The networked information and access to information resources
rather than holdings have become the order of the day, all over the world
academic libraries besides, individuals subscribe electronic journals to meet their
expectation.
The academic libraries of all sizes and types are embracing digital collection,
although most libraries will continue to offer both print and digital collections for
many years to come. New purchases and purchases of journals, magazines, and
abstracting and indexing services are heavily weighted towards digital, while digital
books (e-books) are only beginning to become a present library collection.
Libraries prefer digital resources for many reasons such as digital collection save
the space and are relatively easy to maintain.