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What do digital librarians do

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Youngok Choi,

Edie RasmussenAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Pages 187 - 188

https://doi.org/10.1145/1141753.1141789

Published: 11 June 2006 Publication History

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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.

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What do digital librarians do
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management

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JCDL '06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

June 2006

402 pages

ISBN:1595933549

DOI:10.1145/1141753

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Gary Marchionini
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Old Dominion University
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Catherine C. Marshall
Microsoft

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