Librarian Career Development: Volume 5 Issue 1

Enhancing career and leadership opportunities in LIS through professional communication

Norman G. Kester

The librarian‐writer recounts through his personal narrative why writing for publication should be an important aspect of professional performance and leadership for librarians in…

Emerging public librarian roles and skills: A literature review

Leif Kajberg

As public libraries in Europe change to meet the challenges of the Millennium, so must the professional staff who operate them. The implications of the changes in current public…

Training librarians and information specialists to support academic staff using networks

Kay Flatten

Libraries and learning resource centres occupy unique positions in campus networked information services. Managers and staff in academic libraries are in transition. Their roles…

Training and development for library and information workers for the future: A Manifesto

Philip Barden

Examines the competencies which will be required by the information worker of the twenty‐first century. Emphasis is placed on those new technology skills which are constitutive of…

Effects of local government reorganization on senior library management

Ian Malley

Conjecture over the past few years on the negative impact of local government reorganization on public library staff at the most senior level (Malley, 1993 et al.), is now being…