TY - JOUR AB - This article outlines the common duties and responsibilities of systems librarians, and describes how library school students and others interested in entering the field can take advantage of freely available tools to gain relevant experience. It discusses attitudes and traits of systems librarians and their importance to potential and practicing systems librarians. It also lists and describes technologies that people entering systems librarianship can use to gain experience. VL - 21 IS - 3 SN - 0737-8831 DO - 10.1108/07378830310494445 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830310494445 AU - Jordan Mark PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - The self‐education of systems librarians T2 - Library Hi Tech PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 273 EP - 279 Y2 - 2024/05/07 ER -