Characteristics Of Academic Libraries

As the field of library and information sciences keep growing in the world, many libraries have been developed in order to fulfill the society demands for variety of information. One of the types of libraries which had very crucial functions is academic libraries. The target user of this library is from learning community which includes students and faculty which demands for intellectual materials and sources to help in their research or in gaining knowledge. The services provided by this kind of library should support all of the students demand in order to ensure the important of having a library is a must to all of learning institutions. As technology had become one with the people life, students also are not left behind. They had started

b) New modes of publication and peer review.

c) Corporate information management (record management and content management and content management system).

d) Data sharing (re-use of research data and re-use of learning objects).

e) Preservation of digital resources.

Heery and Anderson (2005) also add some more point about the characteristics of digital repositories. They said that repositories are collections of digital objects and there are several characteristics which differentiate between digital repository and other digital collections. The characteristics mentioned were as followed:

a) Content is deposited in a repository, whether by the content creator, owner or third party.

b) The repository architecture manages content as well as metadata.

c) The repository offers a minimum set of basic services such as put, get, search and access control.

d) The repository must be sustainable and trusted, well supported and well

According to Jeng (2006), efficiency is defined as the ability of the system as a whole to retrieve correct information in a timely and straightforward manner. It measured the length of time it took to complete a task correctly and the number of keystroke or clicks required. Meanwhile Feng and Huang (2008) had stated there are three elements that can be evaluated under the efficiency aspect. First is archiving which includes the language and formats of submission, metadata, revision, depositing process and time to be available. Next is searching element which always a crucial factor that should be considered by every digital information system. In this element, the things that can be evaluate such as the retrieval approach (author, subject journal) and technique (Boolean search), result display and disposal, components of result, similar search and preserve history. Next is assistant element which this element involves assistant functions that can help the users familiar with the system indirectly give impact to user perception on this system. For example is navigation and FAQ (Frequently Asked