Transforming the libraries to adapt global changes through smart library system

Abstract

Libraries are considered as growing organisms, and managing changes is one of the essential roles of librarians. The purpose of this paper is to explore how to transform the traditional libraries, which are continuously pervaded by varying and widespread global changes brought by many factors, coupled with the ever-changing and expanding user demands and expectations. Changing factors are identified mainly by evolving technologies, changes in the scholarly publishing ecosystem, COVID-19 pandemic, political and economic crisis, civil unrest, and Sustainable Development Goals. This study recommends that librarians must be ‘change champions’ and develop the library system as smart libraries.