1. Changing Role of Librarians in Digital Era and Need of Professional skills, Efficiency & Competency By Goutam Biswas Email: goutambiswas8@gmail.comgoutambiswas8@gmail.com http://goutambiswasresearch.yolasite.com/ Dibyendu Paul Dibyendu.kly@gmail.com

2. Introduction  Information on the Internet poses a different kind of conundrum librarians  Location and provision of information services has dramatically changed over the last ten years  Information is accessible electronically in a wide variety of formats  Information is electronically accessible from a wide variety of globally distributed repositories

3. Genesis and metamorphosis…  Traditional Library  Automated Library  Electronic Library  Digital Library

4. New electronic services Online ordering and delivery from local and remote Portals Regional or national catalogue databases Personalized services Online reference Collections digitized by the library Electronic publishing services Online self-paced training facilities Internet access via library’s workstations or network

5. Impact of new services on the library Quickness of delivery Accuracy Higher market penetration by attracting more users and new user groups Relevance for users

6. Library Professional in Digital Age Librarian Information Manager Information adviser/instructor System & Networking

7. …required for LIS Professionals: Knowledge & Skills about –resources (books, journals, i.e. resources, Internet) –Teleological facilities and resources (computer, online catalogues, websites, LANs file servers etc.) –Financial (budget) and Human resources (skills for manpower training) Competencies to –Acceptance of change –Knowledge of user interaction with knowledge resources –Provide quality service –Be adoptive, flexible and resistant –Be resourceful –Excellent communication, constantly update personal knowledge base –Create awareness among the users –Be an information management strategist etc.

8. …required for LIS Professionals: Technical Knowledge required –Operating systems - Windows, UNIX, LINUX. –Word processing, Graphics, Spread sheet & Presentations –DBMS including the skills in Bibliographic DBMS –General purpose programming, Networking –Web page Development and Content Management –Information Retrieval software for online, CD-ROM and Internet. –Library software packages –Acquaintances with Digital Library Tools Capacity to use free/open source resources

9. Conclusion  World of information undergoing rapid change  IT playing crucial role in restructuring the libraries  Shifting from human dependent operations to machine dependency, mechanization (data processing) to knowledge processing, stand alone system to network computing, local LAN to wireless access protocol systems  Many new terms viz. Digital Librarian, Libraries without walls, virtual libraries, are emerging to describe the libraries of digital age  librarians need to be aware of the implications of these changes and develop technological and managerial skills

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