Role of Academic Librarian in Digital Era

Abstract

This paper presents the changing role of academic librarian. Duties and responsibilities of the librarian. The academic librarian have wide range of opportunities and variety of changes library is one of the beneficial sources of education within Higher Education from very establishment of UGC (1953) in India it brought our reforms in college education by relating colleges from rigid system or traditional course.

According to Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, Librarianship as such, does not enjoin on the person in profession a mere provision of book and other reading materials for its clientele but is also experts him to provide information and ideas to its reader.

Keywords: Academic library, Status of Librarian, Role of Librarian, Digital Era