Adapting the information professionals to the digital collections universe

Constantinescu, Nicolaie Adapting the information professionals to the digital collections universe., 2010 Sarminfo. [Other]

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English abstract

Libraries, Archives and Museums (LAMs) should respond as one articulated entity to the user informational needs and to the demands of the scholarly electronic communication. LAMs are stepping forward into the arena of digital stewardship and this move requires new skills and abilities. The specialists are adapting practices and instruments to the pressing needs for digital curation and preservation. The necessity for an active and continuous partnership between the information-intensive organisations, the scholarly community and general public, must be ensured while incorporating the paradigm of guiding the user and empowering the researcher. There are important questions that future digital stewardship raises related to how the professional profile will look like for those powering the specialised structures put in place to safeguard cultural and scientific heritage. What will be the core competences based on what set of skills and abilities? How will the facilities look like? What will be the general environment, and most importantly, will there be a space for common knowledge exchange for those entrusted with maintaining vast bodies of information. The article searches for answers related to the shifting core competencies, future set of skills and abilities and how future facilities will be shaped by these evolutions. The first step is the establishment of spaces especially destined for knowledge exchange to help converge disciplines within LAM framework. Different structural and cultural chances are revealed, starting from job adverts up to the policies addressing the needs of information and knowledge management.

Item type: Other
Keywords: library evolution, archive evolution, museum evolution, LAM, digital stewardship, convergence, collaboration, information specialist
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields .
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GE. Staff.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GI. Training.
K. Housing technologies. > KA. Resources centers.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GH. Education.
A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AA. Library and information science as a field.
F. Management. > FH. Reorganization.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GG. Curricula aspects.
F. Management. > FE. Personnel management.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy
Depositing user: Nicolaie Constantinescu
Date deposited: 26 Jul 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:17
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14755

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