Developing new competencies among LIS professionals : challenges for educators

Author

Rahman, Sajjad ur

Source

المؤتمر الثامن عشر للاتحاد العربي للمكتبات و المعلومات (اعلم) : مهنة المكتبات و تحديات الواقع و المستقبل و دورها في الوصول الحر للمعلومات العلمية، جدة (السعودية) 17-20 نوفمبر 2007.

Publisher

Arab Federation for Libraries and Information

Publication Date

2007-11-30

Country of Publication

Tunisia

No. of Pages

17

Main Subjects

Library Sciences

Topics

• Career development
• Conferences
• Current awareness services

English Abstract

This paper describes the development of LIS into different phases during the last century.

Academic programs and preparation of LIS professionals have witnessed a continuous change.

It is realized that unless this process of change of curriculum is clearly envisaged in the future, LIS professional would become irrelevant in the emerging market.

For this purpose, new competencies have been defined that the LIS professionals need to possess in the light of SLA, ALA and ASERL competency documents.

That has led to articulation of modules of coursework that could serve as benchmarks for curriculum revision and design.

A number of environmental, organizational, and professional challenges have been identified that could impeded the process of change and curriculum redesign.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-375917

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