Someone sent in “Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination” from the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review.
The author, Jerry D. Campbell, Chief Information Officer and Dean of University Libraries at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, says Academic libraries today are complex institutions with multiple roles and a host of related operations and services developed over the years. Yet their fundamental purpose has remained the same: to provide access to trustworthy, authoritative knowledge. Consequently, academic libraries along with their private and governmental counterparts have long stood unchallenged throughout the world as the primary providers of recorded knowledge and historical records. Within the context of higher education especially, when users wanted dependable information, they turned to academic libraries.
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