Introduction

Academic libraries have a long and distinguished history of managing society’s information and knowledge, and with the revolution in networked technology are continually growing and evolving their resources and services to meet the needs of a technologically sophisticated, well-connected, and geographically-distributed clientele. With the development of e-learning and e-scholarship, libraries have continued to serve the missions of their institutions by providing critical information resources, educational support, and services online at a distance: “Significant changes are taking place in the academic library in response to available technologies, the needs and wants of remote users, and the increasing popularity of distance and online learning” (Johnson and Magusin, 2005, p. 8).