| Summary: | [Purpose/Significance] Driven by the trend of smart libraries, academic libraries' transformation has become the primary research topic of library development in the future. This paper aims to find what is involved in the transformation of academic libraries , and summarize the major problems and challenges emerged in the transformation and development of academic libraries, which can be taken as references for academic libraries to decide their development direction of transformation and seek breakthrough points in their transformation. [Method/Process] By using the literature analysis and visualization method, this paper performed co-occurrence analysis of the keywords of research on academic libraries' transformation to find what is involved in the transformation; by using case analysis method to analyze the practice of the Library of Zhejiang University City College, it can summarize the problems and challenges in the transformation. [Results/Conclusions] Academic libraries have used modern technologies and means in their efforts to reform and realize transformation in different aspects and fileds, like innovation of services, improvement of librarians' professional literacy, reasonable layout of library space, and reform of the organizational structure, but there are still some problems in the process of transformation: the service is too dependent on technologies and the insufficient technical management making it hard to carry out library services; it is hard to measure the professional literacy of librarians, and decide whether librarians can meet the requirements of library transformation; insufficient space and funding makes a library unable to provide more space for creative activities; at last, the imperfection of institution system may lead to the stagnation of library work.
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