Introduction
A country’s competitiveness in research is the starting point for national competitiveness. The source of a nation’s research competitiveness is universities that value basic research and the production of academic papers, and it is university libraries that offer academic information services and support to research teams. University libraries, which are at the forefront of accommodating advances in IT and the internet, have made many innovative changes. For example, they have computerized key tasks, systemized processes and built networks of access and search channels. As a result, they are experiencing many changes in organizational structure, human resources and work systems, budget allocation and spending ratios, spatial layout and function, and composition of books.