Students and the Library: A Consideration of One Objective

Abstract

A major handicap in administering a university library, or any large library, is the lack of opportunities for daily contact between the Librarian and the library's users. Compared with the Reader Services librarians, for instance, the University Librarian's contact with students is small. Thus, during my year as Acting University Librarian, I was dependent on feedback, from a variety of sources, in order to find out what students expected from the library, where they felt it was not fulfilling their needs, and what were the most urgently required changes. The library still falls for short of our ideal - what library doesn't? But provided the library has a set of positive aims to work towards, deficiencies can gradually be overcome.