CURRENT TRENDS AND EMERGING ISSUES IN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES FOR INFORMATION SERVICE DELIVERY

Globally, the rapid and far-reaching developments that have occurred in the last twodecades in terms of the development of technological innovations, the creation of vastamounts of freely available digital information and the adoption of new servicedelivery formats have resulted in dramatic changes in the character and theorganization of academic and research libraries. Specifically, the current trends andthe quick and easy access the advent of Internet provides to vast amounts ofinformation sou