Abstract
Classical librarianship drowns in the sea of change. in the United States our profession had indicated a profound change -especially in the last 20 years. Until 1976, 15 schools or departments of librarianship had been closed, and the rest had undergone a serious transformation. During the last 20 years, library education became no more homogeneous as it was in the past. New educational programs show vast diversity. The scope of the mission of library services became enlarged. Type of students, ways of teaching had also indicated a substantial change. On the other hand, the librarian of today requires lifelong selfeducation.
Highlights
Classica/ librarianship drowns in the sea of change. in the United States our profession had indicated a profound change -especia/ly in the /ast 20 years
What do I do as a consultant? in many ways I am a problem solver, a consensus builder. 1work with the staff at each of the centers to better use existing technology, to come up with new ideas on using technology to get our message to our audience and I recommend training opportunities when feasible. 1am one of those graduates of library school who finds herself in a very non-traditional library job (1will speak more on that a bit later)
In addition to traditional university, public and school library settings, students are finding jobs in government, corporations and as independent brokers and "knowledge managers." A growing number are going to work outside traditional library settings
Summary
Surviving schools like those at Berkeley and the University of Michigan have rebuilt their programs to train students to create and manage databases, websites, and electronic libraries. FIRST OF ALL, LIBRARY EDUCATION IS NO LONGER HOMOGENEOUS AS iT ONCE WAS in the late 70's and early BO's, with the advent of computers, all schools began to change their curricula (some faster than others). Those with substantial funding established computer labs, adding a few courses in information science, online searching, database construction, programming languages et cetera. For example: The University of Tennessee is The School of lnformation Sciences
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