What is the Importance of Academic library?

What is the Importance of Academic library?

There are several reasons why you might want to find an academic library near you, physically or virtually. An academic librarian with expertise in your subject area can help you:

• Find content that isn’t given away for free – resources libraries pay for so that you may use them
• Find a brief overview or in-depth scholarship about a subject
• See who is writing about a particular subject
• Identify legislation, hearings, or other government publications about a subject
• Plot and visualize data
• Find news coverage of an event from historic times to today
• Follow a chain of research – conversations building on past research, and expanding it into the future.
• Find the full text of an article you have only bits and pieces.
• Produce a well-researched business plan, and identify useful market research resources.
• Look at historic manuscripts, maps, writings, and images or footage, or find audio.
• Find background information about a company or institution before your job interview.
• Librarians at higher institutions are available to meet with students and help them find resources to support their scholarly, creative, professional, and course-related assignments. They provide one on one consultations, as well as meet with small groups or classes. . Online tutorials like the Productive Researcher and email/IM help options are available, too. In addition to providing online search assistance, we increasingly offer collections online, giving you access to journal articles, ebooks, music and more, available on and off-campus.

·   The Perks of Academic Libraries

•         For those who are on campus, an academic library offers laptops, work stations, multimedia stations, study space, collections, an environment for study and collaboration, and in Bird Library, a place to get a cup of coffee.

•           Academic libraries offer the same services to faculty, students, staff, or to anyone facing new terrain and to those who are unfamiliar with how the system works at an academic library. 

• Many academic librarians have created helpful guides for classes or general fields of study. Academic librarians may also be involved in data use and management. We welcome hearing about your scholarly and teaching needs, and your collection suggestions.

•  An Environment of Learning

•  Finding articles and searching for information is one part of learning about the world of learning, and part of the experience of coming to a college or university. We learn from and with others during our four (or more years) of connectedness with an institution. We learn about the research process from instructors, peers, and the recorded and preserved work of others, much of which is available in libraries. We are all part of a larger environment that promotes learning, now and in the future – and we work together on this.