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Competencies Required of Public Services Librarians to Use New Technologies

Nikecki, Danuta A.

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Title
Competencies Required of Public Services Librarians to Use New Technologies
Author(s)
Nikecki, Danuta A.
Issue Date
1983
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Data processing
  • Online data processing
  • Information technology
  • Library education
Abstract
"The classic dichotomy within librarianship roughly divides the profession's functions into two the technical activities of acquiring and organizing recorded information on the one hand and on the other hand the public assistance to interpret and disseminate this stored information. ' Within this setting, the main function of public services librarians is to help library users to acquire needed information. To do so involves personal interactions, interpretation of needs, retrieval of information, and delivery of documents, facts or directions. Does the utilization of new technologies which are appearing in libraries demand the development of new competencies among public services librarians to peform their function? Are we in the midst of a revolutionary change whereby ""the availability of online bibliographic searching has created demand for librarians with new skills and expertise."""
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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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1983.

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1983: Professional competencies--technology and the librarian PRIMARY
20th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1983). Edited by Linda C. Smith