Changing role of librarians in the digital age

• Authors: Toth M.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Librarians must face new challenges in the digital age. The new roles are determined by three global trends: the reevaluation of the role of knowledge, the development in information infrastructure, and the demand for equal chances in library services. By assessing these trends it can be concluded that the librarians' profession is further differentiated along the necessary professional skills. The real divide is, however, caused by the for-profit tendency in information provision. For information specialists in the non-profit sector there are two roles that come into limelight: those of the social worker and of the information professional. One of the most important obstacle for the changed roles is the prestige deteriorating continuously, so its raise becomes a strategic task of the future.

Keywords

EN

DIGITAL AGE; INFORMATION SPECIALIST; LIBRARIAN; LIBRARY

Discipline

• LIBRARY_&_INFORMATION_SCIENCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

• Publisher: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, National Technical Information Centre and Library (BME OMIKK)
• Journal: Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 16-29
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Toth M.

• M. Toth, address nor given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04HUAAAA0019414