Crisis in foreign language expertise in research libraries

摘要

Crises in academic research libraries seem to be endemic these days. Skyrocketing serial prices causing large-scale subscription cancellations, economic recession causing funding cutbacks, the graying of the librarian workforce, all are serious and much-discussed problems common to most academic libraries. There are also other, less well-known, trends developing, that may become crises if they are not recognized and addressed soon.