Communication as a means of relationship within university libraries

Abstract

The role of the university library increases in connection with the modernization and continuous computerization of higher education, changing the demand for educational services. The library is obliged to respond to changes in the requirements for full user satisfaction. The university libraries can be transformed in to a new information services unit, providing electronic cataloguing, electronic online, public access catalogue, electronic acquisition and serials control, electronic inter-library loan and electronic circulation functions. Effective communication is an important factor for the successful development of university libraries. Communication becomes for the university libraries, for their staff, more than an instrument for development and ascension; it becomes a new philosophy of the existence of the Library and the Librarian. The future of libraries depends on the existence of demand for their services. UDC: 027.7:316.77