Academic Librarian as A Scientists' Partner: an Author's Best Practice

摘要

It is acknowledged that every phase of the industrialization has influenced human life. In the field of information, for example, the presence of the internet and mobile technology has enabled people to access information from around the globe independently. I feel compelled to conduct a study on my best practices in dealing with the change of information seeking behavior of library users. This article discusses partnership strategies of university librarian in responding to the shifts of college paradigm from "Wall Class University" to World Class University. This change certainly has a very significant impact on the library. The library should be the gateway to the change. Librarians as agents of change must be able to respond to these changes wisely and intelligently. Due to the change of university paradigm as systemic and comprehensive then one effective strategy is to build an active partnership between librarians and lecturers and students as campus scientist community. What are the strategies and forms of interactive partnerships that should be built? This case study made use the author himself to gather the data by observing the librarians and library users. It also relied on my best practices during my career as an academic librarian at the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University library in Banda Aceh. The data were then analyzed qualitatively using the concepts and theories of library and information science. The study indicated that the academic library as a scientific partner of the students has very important role in connecting them to the reading sources. Therefore, the college librarians as scientific partners should be responsive to changes in the paradigm of higher education; proactively detect, evaluate and find effective solutions by utilizing all their potentias; and professional in conducting their jobs.