Abstract:
University library’s success depends on better services to the users of the right information at the right time. Moreover, library user’s satisfaction depends on provide proper library resources as well as update information. Update information depends on triangular activities like suppliers, organizations and library personnel. The objective of supply chain management is to coordinate the focal library’s processes and activities with those of its suppliers and customers, such that the library is provided resources and services meet or exceed user / customer requirements. The purpose of this study is to develop a serene environment for users and improves understanding of SCM to stimulate and facilitates researchers to undertake both theoretical and empirical investigation on the framework of SCM. This study also demonstrates that SCM functions, challenges and internal library services, library structure of SCM, elements of SCM. Researcher is mainly focused on triangular relationship among suppliers, library personnel and library authority (organization) to do job for fulfilling the user’s needs of information to overcome the university library’s goal.
Description:
Libraries are growing organism as well as users and resources enhancing day by day due to meet the needs of information and providing right information to the right users at the right time. Libraries have expanded their core services to include many things that might be better off in the hands of other organizations. Library suppliers, vendors, and publishers are increasingly driven by the bottom line for providing quality and proper services in the library. The library supply chain increases the ability to rely on partner organizations to supply those things to users which might be secondary to the mission of the library and create costly inefficiencies. Supply chain management of the libraries are the integration of key service processes from end user to vendors / suppliers that provide proper services to the right users at the right time as per needs of information that evaluate satisfaction from users and other community (Lambert, Cooper, and Pagh, 1998).
Library success and viability also depend on management’s to co-ordinate the network of relationships and processes linking the library’s internal and external supply chain members to provide the desired services.