The challenge of electronic services librarianship
ISSN: 0090-7324
Article publication date: 1 April 1995
Issue publication date: 1 April 1995
Abstract
The evolution of technology in libraries is causing more technically oriented professionals to join the library profession. Having an electronic services librarian has become a hallmark of the electronic age. Many imaginative but similar job titles appear in library employment advertisements: “Network Services Librarian,” “Reference and Electronic Information Services Librarian,” “Electronic Information and Multimedia Librarian,” “Information Integrator.” Why is this new field in librarianship so popular? What are the requirements to be an “electronic services librarian?” What will their future be like? Is this new professional the answer to all new library technology developments? This article examines these questions and explores the problems in this emerging position by analyzing the experience of one academic library.
Citation
Wei He, P. and Knee, M. (1995), "The challenge of electronic services librarianship", Reference Services Review, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049260
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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