Information Professionals in The Disruptive Era: Academics and Practitioners Perspectives

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10.2991/icclas-18.2019.31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Librarian, Disruptive era, Changing role of the librarian

Abstract

The aims of this paper are to identify the academics and practitioners’ perspectives about librarian competencies and roles in the disruptive era and what the librarianship community should do. The academics and the practitioners are lecturers and librarians in Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta. The study used a qualitative method by interviewing several academics and practitioners in the library field. The data in the forms of opinions, ideas, or thoughts about professionalism in librarianship were analyzed qualitatively using relevant theories and approaches. The study revealed important perspectives to build and strengthen the librarians’ professionalism. The librarians should always improve their competencies in the digital era, they have to be closer to the community that they served, and the librarianship community have to do their roles to support the development of librarian competencies and changing roles.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fahma Rianti
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TI  - Information Professionals in The Disruptive Era: Academics and Practitioners Perspectives
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