Library as an organization - Functions and services

• Library functions include

• Collections development (acquisitions)
  
• Cataloging,
• Reference,
• Circulation,
• Administration
• Information commons/other services.

• Educational lectures, trainings, workshops (in-class or distance)
• Research wing
• Reading/conference rooms
• Work stations
• Software licensing
• Cafeteria

• Existence of libraries within an organization: as an auxiliary, complementary, or integrated unit. OR an independent organization by itself.
• Goals of the library, vision, mission, conformity with the organizational objective (if any), identity.
• Administrative structures (rigid and bureaucratic or informal),
• Personnel (education, values, loyalty, entrepreneurship --- apply the concepts of Information Professional).
• Role of IT in recent year (new IT has created other work roles and positions, new staff with different skills sets).