Biblioteki akademickie w "pejzażu edukacyjnym" społeczeństwa informacyjnego

The analysis of a mission, task quality, and evaluation of operation of academic libraries are the target of the study. Interesting remarks of the Dean of Library Service of California University in Fresno on improvement and modernization of operation of academic libraries, and especially his reinterpretation of five principles of librarianship by S.R. Ranganathan (intelligent usage of technologies, protection of unlimited access to knowledge - sources of information, creation of future with simultaneous respect for the achievements of the past and utilitarianism - a positive approach towards systematic implementation of new technologies to library activity) became the basis for comparative analysis. Selected opinions on functioning of Polish academic libraries of Polish researchers - Jacek Wojciechowski, Henryk Hollender, Artur Jazdon have been presented. An attempt at characterizing innovations of organizational structures, as well as policy of gathering, including the structure of a resource with clear withdrawal from universality of collections in favor of their specialization and profiling, has been made. Factors concerning the accessibility of resources and modern solutions within informational activities have been discussed as well. The idea of cooperation of academic libraries based on coalition, cooptation, or exchange [cooperation], as well as realization of principles of management in conformity to TQM is extremely important. The problems of modernization of methods of trainings of first-year students within ‘library adaptation’ have also been raised. The problems touched upon in the article are significant because of a large group of information recipients [students and academic workers]