Planning Improved Library Service for Scientists in Universities

The improvement of information services to scientists in academic libraries, though a desirable obfective, will not by itself make the library the important information source that librarians would like it to be. A step toward this goal is the identification and testing of additional information services that the academic library might provide. Information services not usually provided by academic libraries were offered at Florida State University for a year and a half to a group of scientists as part of a study of personal indexes. More such studies are needed in planning future academic library service.