IMPACT OF DIGITAL ERA ON ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: IT’S PLAY WITH LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS

This article an effort to define the changing dynamic role of the academic library professionals in digital library environment. It gives an introductory background of the digital era which impacts on the changes occurring in the academic libraries. It describes about the indicative role of the emerging trends in information services that the librarians play in the academic libraries. Finally, it presents the vision of the new generation; the challenges facing implementation of the digital libraries and to review the problems faced by the librarians in the academic libraries in new digital era.