An Organisational Model for University Libraries in Transition

Every university has a university library that has been there from the start. And at the start, the situation was relatively simple. There was a library, almost always located in one building, very often in the middle of the university buildings. It was the place where staff and students went to gather scientific information and to study. It was the pride of many universities. The library’s organisation contained a number of departments, one for every separate activity (selection, acquisition, cataloguing, etc.) and sometimes also for separate parts of the collection (manuscripts, reference collection, etc.).