UTILIZATION OF LIBRARY RESOURCES AND SERVICES

Academic libraries have long enjoyed their status as the “heart of the university.” However, in recent decades, higher education environments have changed. Government officials see higher education as a national resource. Employers view higher education institutions as producers of a commodity—student learning. Top academic faculty expects higher education institutions to support and promote cutting- edge research. A good and efficient college library certainly help the students to meet the new challenges they start facing at college they can, with the four walls of the library use their leisure more usefully and meaningfully, discover their own inherent potentialities, launch upon instructive and absorbing hobbies and generally lay the foundations of a good and more responsible life of the future. The libraries therefore become more important than the classroom – they will become their work shops. It is in this context that a college library has to play a very responsive role vis-à-vis, the needs of the young students.