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This naturally causes librarians to re-evaluate their professional role, but perhaps academic librarians are best prepared for the future due to their co-existing role as professors. Essentially they have always been teaching, but now they must conquer the disparaging image and status treatment to which they have been subjected and evolve their profession by joining their teaching faculty colleagues in classrooms on college and university campuses worldwide.  \nIntroduction  \nRecent library literature is rampant with gloom and doom projections for academic libraries. Students no longer have to enter a library building as most information is available electronically; physical books, journals and newspapers are being replaced my electronic ones, professors provide students with electronically scanned copies of course materials housed on the campus course management system, and material not accessible in the campus library may be obtained through electronic interlibrary loan or by utilizing the World Wide Web. Further, the open access publishing movement is providing free access toa growing number of published articles thus weakening the hold libraries presently have on their journal subscriptions. “Libraries are transitioning from an analog to a digital environment and Lyman Ross and Pongracz Sennyey profess that “academic librarianship needs to fundamentally revise its practices to become competitive in a digital environment.”(Ross & Sennyey, 2008, p. 147, p. 151) .  \nOther contributing factors leading to the uncertain future of academic libraries are outlined by Wade R. Kotter:  \n• Library budgets that are flat or declining;  \n• An information explosion with no end in sight;  \n• Continuing inflation in the cost of serials and other library resources;  \n• Critiques of higher education that ignore or downplay the role of the library; and  \n• A relentless tide of technological innovation. (Kotter, 1999, p. 1)  \nThere are already discussions about removing books from library shelves and constructing classrooms, computer labs, writing centers or student lounges in  \ntheir place. Brick and mortar libraries are projected tobe a thing of the past; the only item one will need is an electronic mobile device with web access to retrieve all forms of information. Whether one chooses to heed or ignore these prophesies, the threat is already broadcast and people have begun to ponder the issue.  \nNow that the demise of academic libraries is predicted, although certainly not universally accepted, where does this leave the librarians? The library science literature espouses that academic librarians need to re-examine their professional role and some authors suggest that librarians need “more proactive methods …[of] active participation in the scholarly life of the campus.”(Sennyey, Ross & Mills, 2009, p. 255) . Therefore academic librarians should take charge of their status as academics and teach full semester credit-bearing courses. Think beyond information literacy instruction and collaborative teaching and consider teaching in their own specialty field or perhaps a university core course, thereby joining the ranks ofthe teaching faculty on campus. Academic librarians have always been “teaching,” even while assisting patrons in the library; now they just need to expand that aspect of their profession to take command of the classroom. And because librarians will inevitably weave information literacy into their curriculum, perhaps their students will gain an educational advantage. But to be successful in the classroom there are a few hurdles that librarians must first overcome.  \nLibrarian Image  ","cbCaiaGsQQI9Y7WC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaGsQQI9Y7WC","pdf",56159,"English","# Introduction\n## Uncertain future for academic libraries\n## Contributing factors\n## Rethinking librarians' professional role\n# Librarian Image\n## Public stereotypes and their impact\n## Professors vs. librarians: organizational fiction","[{\"question\":\"Why do academic libraries face an uncertain future?\",\"answer\":\"Because information is increasingly available electronically, print resources are being replaced, course materials circulate through digital systems, and open access publishing reduces reliance on subscriptions. 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