Competency Requirements for Library and Information Science Professionals

Griffiths, José-Marie

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Title

Competency Requirements for Library and Information Science Professionals

Author(s)

Griffiths, José-Marie

Issue Date

1983

Keyword(s)

• Libraries --Data processing
• Online data processing
• Information technology
• Library education

Abstract

One of the paradoxes of the phenomenal growth of the information community is that librarianship, one of the oldest and most respected of information professions, is experiencing great difficulties as a profession at a time when it should be experiencing its greatest growth. There are many hypotheses as to why this is happening. One is that the environment and new technologies are changing the patterns of distribution of the work force and the ways in which information is being communicated. There are many who feel that librarians as intermediaries will cease to exist. It is my contention that these changes will increase the importance of librarians, albeit in possible new roles in addition to their existing ones. Another hypothesis is that the changing environment and new technologies are not being fully met by educational institutions. A likely reason for these needs and demands not being fully met is a lack of communication between the employers of information professionals and the institutions that educate and train them.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (20th : 1983)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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