EDUCAUSE Review Articles, Library Planning, and Electronic Resources

The authors discuss recent studies conducted to gage the academic librarian's and faculty member's view on the increasing use and offering of electronic resources. One could conclude from the studies that the "transition to an electronic environment poses significant strategic and management challenges for higher education" and that there is a "need for libraries to take leadership in helping academia's transition to the new environment".

The author discusses two primary challenges to research library collections; one is how to maintain current paper based collections while keeping costs down and investing digital collections. The second challenge is how to maintain a research library's academic standing when collecting less and less print collections.