ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on management policy with respect to libraries as information resource centers at colleges and universities. Libraries face both a financial crisis and a role identity crisis, events that should trigger a search for viable alternatives. Libraries hold a central position in the information storage and dissemination activities at colleges and universities. Apart from lunch and grievances over parking, the library was the single common point of interest and contact for faculty and students. Computer expenses have at a number of universities approached or even exceeded the cost of the library. Computers were destined to become the most important; but data communications, television, micrographics, and audio-visual devices were significant. Libraries can benefit greatly from careful thought and planning on how to maintain a vital role in the information resource system and thereby assure themselves of the continuing support of their constituency.
