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Thesis An academic library position in a university: understanding the position and its positioning process. This study explored the issues related to academic libraries' position and the positioning process. The study adopted an inductive and grounded theory approach to illuminate the academic library's position and positioning process through the perceptions of the study's participants. Seventeen semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted as the main source of data and 46 related documents were analysed as secondary data support. The findings show that an academic library's positioning is a dynamic process, which is described as movement through the positions of surviving, striving and thriving. These positions are influenced by the library's operational effectiveness, the library's legitimation strategies and the library as a knowledge symbol, which are the themes that emerged from the findings. To further enhance the understanding of academic libraries' position, a model of academic libraries' dynamic position was developed based on the findings. It was found that academic libraries' dynamic position is influenced by the striving position, which is based on the level of success of the legitimation strategies, and failure to progress to the next position will lead academic libraries to a situation of a false sense of legitimacy. Md Yusof, Mazni DInfSci Doctoral 2018-08-31 Simon Burnett, Adrienne Muir and Roddy Smith oai:rgu-repository.worktribe.com:241937 https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/241937/1/MD%20YUSOF%202018%20An%20academic%20library%20position Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) Academic libraries University libraries Libraries in higher education Organisational legitimacy https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/241937 2018 en openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Public