The academic library helps support teaching, learning, and research because it allows people to teach themselves and learn by doing their own research. When you go into an academic library, you are able to find the topic that you are struggling with and do your own research and learn more about it. By doing this you are teaching yourself more about the topic that you were struggling with. By allowing students to have an academic library they have more Independence to learn on their own, teach themselves, and do their own research rather than having to ask a teacher for the questions that they have or for the answer.