Challenges Faced in Formulating a New Faculty Library: With Special Reference to Allied Health Sciences Library, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss and bring out challenges faced in formulating a faculty library with special reference to Allied Health Sciences Library, Kotelawala Defence University. Issues occurred in collection development, library utilization, marketing library services, managing human resources, building relationship with faculty and identification of user needs and seeking behaviors were described by this article. Some suggestions were included in this for the different challenges faced by the allied health sciences library. Developing the collection development policy, providing more e-resources, initiating more user friendly services are some of them. This is an institutional experience that will help to aware on same subject for others when they starting new library.