DETERMINING WHO IS A LIBRARIAN SKILLS COMPETENCIES FOR THE 21st CENTURY LIBRARIAN
DETERMINING WHO IS A LIBRARIAN SKILLS COMPETENCIES FOR THE 21st CENTURY LIBRARIAN
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Date
2024
Authors
OZOR, Stella Enwelimnkem
GBISHE, Elijah Korshima
SULEIMAN, Suleiman T.
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LIBRARY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FORUM JOURNAL OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COMPLEX
Abstract
The Study Focused On Determining who is a librarian: skills, competencies for the 21st century
librarian, The objective was to explore how professional Librarians assess their information literacy
(IL) and which knowledge, skill and attitude they consider important in facilitating the developing of IL
of library users.
Librarians need knowledge and skills in pedagogy and andragogy, instructional design, information
technology, foreign languages, marketing, information sources and databases as well as on learning
domain. The Paper also highlighted the increasing role of technology in libraries has a significant
impact on the changing roles of librarians. How the 21st century librarian is required to be very much
updated of technological changes, Social skills, personal characteristic and attitude of librarians are
very important in facilitating IL. Additionally, some of these skills may not be as important as others.
The place of employment will have a large impact on exactly what is needed to thrive in a particular
position in a particular job and the specific competencies most important in that occupation. The
study expressed the view that all librarians and information professionals must be able to advice
users individually to facilitate their information literacy IL, but not all should be required to deliver
courses and lectures for a group of students or library users. Way forward, librarians should always
leverage on the available opportunities in information technology IT, so as to keep them abreast of
the latest innovation in Librarianship.
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JOURNAL OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY COMPLEX