Browse 1983: Professional competencies--technology and the librarian by Subject "Online data processing"

  • The New Technology and Competencies for "The Most Typical of the Activities of Libraries": Technical Services 
    Henderson, Kathryn Luther (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983)
    At a library conference in 1940, William M. Randall called technical services the "most typical of the activities of libraries" "they are..." he said, "the things which librarians do that no one else does the secrets ...

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  • The Public Librarian of the Last Years of the Twentieth Century 
    Sweeney, Richard (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983)
    This paper addresses two major questions. First, what is the schizophrenia that is afflicting the library profession in general and public librarians in particular? Second, what knowledge and skill competencies must ...

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  • The Role of the Association in Developing Professional Competence 
    Virgo, Julie Carroll (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983)
    I would like to begin by reviewing what it is about an association that shapes the special role it can play in developing professional competence. To begin with what is perhaps the obvious, a professional association consists ...

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  • Special Librarians Face the New Technology 
    Griffin, Hillis L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983)
    As I tried to define the role of the special librarian for these proceedings, I recalled an experience that happened during a recent visit to London. We were walking through the tunnel under Oxford Street to Hyde Park ...

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  • Technology and the Academic Library Staff 
    Gray, Carolyn M. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983)
    This clinic program announces that I intend to address the human factors involved in library automation in academic libraries. It is tempting to begin this talk by discussing the impact of technology upon academic library ...

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  • Training Staff to Use Computers 
    Baskin, Linda; Spencer, Mima (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983)
    Until recently, those who worked with computers were commonly thought of as having special knowledge or technical background not commonly known to others. In libraries the computers were likely to be managed by data ...

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