Libraries Relevance in the Digital Age: a Study on Romanian Researchers' Expectations
Libraries Relevance in the Digital Age: a Study on Romanian Researchers' Expectations

Summary/Abstract: In the last decades, a line of research on library quality assessment, library relevance and library impact has been developed in library and information science all over the world, with the aim of quality improvement and possible implications in organizational strategy and culture.The purpose of this paper is to determine how Romanian researchers perceive the importance of library in their academic lives and how library usage relates to researchers' outcomes and visibility. A case study involved a qualitative approach through content analysis of a series of answers obtained by means of twenty completed questionnaires and six registered semi-structured interviews with researchers in mathematics, chemical pharmaceutics, industrial ecology and organic chemistry.As a result, in order to offer high quality services, Romanian research libraries have to be more prepared to address different requests from their users and to adopt adequate techniques and initiatives in supporting research and, also, formal, informal and professional education.

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