Dear Sir/ Madam, Greetings! Happy to share the 27th interview post on Open Interview <https://openinterview.org/>. In this interview, *Prof. R. David Lankes*, Virginia and Charles Bowden Professor of Librarianship at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information shares his ideas with Dr. Santosh C. H. on ways to deal with the key technological changes that are taking place in the academic sector. He discusses how libraries have continued doing good work despite there are challenges revolving around use and access even in the times of text-generative AI technology. Further, he opines that the mission of libraries has to be improving society through facilitating knowledge creation in communities. And this could be possible by MAKE which stands for motivation, access, knowledge and environment *R David Lankes: Mission of libraries has to be improving society through facilitating knowledge creation in communities* https://openinterview.org/2023/06/12/r-david-lankes-mission-of-libraries-has... Kindly go through the interview transcript and post your valuable comments on the blog. Best regards, -- Santosh C. H., PhD <https://santoshch.weebly.com/> University Librarian & Director, Publication Division Central University of Haryana <http://cuh.ac.in/> Mahendergarh-123 031 Haryana, India http://library.cuh.ac.in/ Cell: +91-99874 28147 -- *Editor, Open Interview <https://openinterview.org/>* .. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.