The Position and Prospects of Academic Libraries: Strengths and Opportunities

Its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) shape the academic library in terms of what it is does, how seen, where excels struggles, its potential for advancement or decline. The purpose this research to guide strategy development, decision making, positioning by identifying analyzing key impacting libraries. premise that an understanding these elements, their overlap, interplay between them essential effective development strategy. This unique applying SWOT analysis libraries collectively.The approach select four items long-term significance each category across two articles. Strengths opportunities are focus first article, preceded context, a literature review, overview methodology. strengths identified centrality, values, collaboration, reinvention, while post-COVID world, digital scholarship, open learning space. second article will examine weaknesses threats, discuss whole offer framework future based on ten proposed strategic directions.