1. New Facets of the Library Profession in the Digital Era: Problems and Perspectives H. Kalilur Rahman Senior Librarian Caledonian College of Engineering Post Box 2322, CPO Seeb 111, Sultanate of Oman kaleel@caledonian.edu.om NACLIN 2007 – Tenth National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking Organized by DELNET

2. New Facets of the Library Profession in the Digital Era: Problems and Perspectives Introduction Librarians as computer knowledge persons –Need –Computer Knowledge and Librarians’ role –Emerging fields –Knowledge enhancement NACLIN 2007 – DELNET

3. New Facets of the Library Profession in the Digital Era: Problems and Perspectives Librarians as Collection Developers –New formats of information resources –Collection development : Two dimensional approach Infrastructure development Procurement –Required knowledge –Role of Open Sources –At Caledonian College of Engineering NACLIN 2007 – DELNET

4. New Facets of the Library Profession in the Digital Era: Problems and Perspectives Librarians as Information Providers –Information Dissemination –Skills to be obtained –Technologies to disseminate information Librarians as Trainers –Why Information Literacy –Librarian as a good trainer –At Caledonian College of Engineering NACLIN 2007 – DELNET

5. New Facets of the Library Profession in the Digital Era: Problems and Perspectives Librarians as Knowledge Managers –KM : Another new facet –Role of Librarians –Proficiencies to be developed Conclusion NACLIN 2007 - DELNET

6. New Facets of the Library Profession in the Digital Era: Problems and Perspectives Thanks a lot Questions please NACLIN 2007 - DELNET