The role of the library in student and teacher education

The speed of technological change has also affected libraries. While attempting to perform all traditional information services, librarians now need to develop new skills and anticipate new services needed to function successfully in an electronic educational environment.

For example, today's concern about access to collections and information implies access to digital resources that the librarian does not physically possess. Also, given the changing environment and the need for users to access resources from one place, the library no longer has users who physically come to the library and seek printed materials, but serves as an intermediary between users and distributed information, which raises the problem of accessing, describing, organizing, and managing different types of information resources.

The development of devices with multiple integrated technologies has enabled the integration of different components of the information space, and therefore it is necessary to unify access to different services, which requires adapting existing services, but also creating new ones, which requires the development and acquisition of new skills. In this way, technology affects all aspects of library work, especially because it imposes new challenges on librarians who need to balance traditional tools and ways of working and new environments for which they either need to adapt existing tools or create new ones.

It seems that during the rapid expansion of the distance education and e-learning industry, the library and access to its services were in last place. Plans were based on technical solutions and achievements, while few people thought about the fundamental part of education, the center of every educational institution without which there is no successful education, namely the library.