DocumentCode
1826184
Title
What do digital librarians do
Author
Choi, Youngok ; Rasmussen, Edie
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Oswego, NY
fYear
2006
fDate
38869
Firstpage
187
Lastpage
188
Abstract
Without well-educated digital librarians, digital libraries cannot reach their full potential. In order to offer relevant courses and programs to train digital librarians, educators need feedback from practitioners. Current digital library professionals in academic libraries in the United States were surveyed to determine their activities, skills and training gaps. The findings have implications for the design of digital library education in order to meet workplace needs
Keywords
academic libraries; digital libraries; information science education; academic libraries; digital librarians; digital library education; Computer science; Demography; Educational programs; Employment; Feedback; Information resources; Information science; Permission; Project management; Software libraries; digital librarians; digital libraries; education;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN
1-59593-354-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1145/1141753.1141789
Filename
4119118
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