Changing roles:
the impact of web based resources on library professionals
Libraries
Providing access to resources beyond walls of library
Providing services to users beyond walls of library
Reference/ information service librarians
A move away from locating information for users, to creating resource guides
Increased education/ training role - knowledge of search tools, critical evaluation.
Cataloguers
Emergence of web and other electronic resources a challenge
Need to be aware of where users are REALLY finding information, and where users are located
Look at ways to apply experience of Web to library catalogs
Last updated 5 April 2001 by
Alastair Smith