TITLE

Have Challenges for the New Professional Changed? Perspectives from the Far End of the Career Spectrum

AUTHOR(S)
Lunau, Carrol
PUB. DATE
April 2007
SOURCE
Feliciter;2007, Vol. 53 Issue 2, p80
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The author reflects on the challenges for librarianship in the U.S. She stressed that the information professionals of every generation begin their careers full of energy as well as a desire to change the world. She asserted that the tensions between new ideas and established organizational behaviors have always existed. She suggested that new professionals must seek out opportunity that led to a career with expertise in designing and developing systems and networks for libraries.
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24615088

 

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