Reinventing Librarianship - Turning a Profession Inside Out to Create Tomorrow's Needed Knowledge Experts (Paperback)

Tomorrow the world will need people skilled in lifelong knowledge creation and management. The profession of librarianship offers the foundations for those who can lead and train others in these new skill sets, but it is a challenging time for the profession. Reinventing Librarianship argues that through a mix of reform and reinvention, librarians can take their profession forward to provide the needed value and differentiation over traditional knowledge access. This title examines issues surrounding these opportunities, building a detailed roadmap of the needed transformation, the result of which will be librarians seen as key players in meeting society's need for skilled knowledge creators and experts. Through an examination of technology trends inside and outside of libraries, this book steps outside the bounds of conventional discussion, to provide a total view of the profession and from where the author sets out his vision. The book consists of five chapters, covering: the state of the information industry and users; the state of librarians and libraries today; librarian education reforms; and the future of librarianship. Finally, a conclusion argues the case for new professional organization to steward the reinvention of librarianship.