Best Poster Paper award (2nd place) for Dydimus Zengenene and Muharrem Yılmaz in BOBCATSSS 2012, Amsterdam.

1. Demand and supply of skills and competences of
Information Managers in the digital era
Muharrem Yılmaz’ & Dydimus Zengenene’
International Master in Digital Library Learning (DILL)
Abstract (1) BOBCATSSS
Introduction (2) 2012
The study classifies and analyzes skills Introduction (2)
demanded in job adverts and weigh
them against the curricular of select Library and information science has become a profession
institutions that try to train digital characterized by fast-paced change, new and emerging sets of
information professionals. This study skills, and a shift in the relationship between the customer and
examines the jobs advertises through the professional. Information specialists are not immune to the
the Chartered Institute of Library dynamic changes of the digital era. The demand for new skills is
and Information Professionals (CILIP) exerting pressure on the academia to revise their curricular in
& LinkedIn and the curricular of order to meet the new trend. It is therefore imperative to
selected United Kingdom Universities continuously check the gap between the curricular and market
which offer information management expectations if a profession is to remain relevant.
degree programmes.
Methodology (3)
Findings (5)
Visual Metadata and Librarian Digital Library
Resources Digital (Procurement Metadata
Development Resources & Metadata Specialist
Officer Librarian and Systems) Web
Network Librarian
IT Librarian
Access Librarian Development
Development Data
Librarian Creator Digital
Manager Electronic Assets
Literature Review (4) Library Systems Librarian
Website Infrastructure Librarian
In the literature requirements of the LIS professionals generally Knowledge Manager PHP, Perl,
XML, XSLT
are classified under Manager Java
Data & Info Content MS
Discipline- Marketing & MS Database
Promotion Metadata
Specific Communication Structure Web
Computerized Web Design
Knowledge and Design Applications
Negotiation LMS and Web Development
Personal Skills Evaluation Digital Analytics The Digital
Information Age
Professional Flexibility and Information
Openness Technologies Information
Skills Systems and Technologies
Adapting to Retrieval
Change in a New and Modeling for Internet
Technological Professional Architecture Systems
Censorship Skills Environment Essential
Programming
Collaboration Information Skills for
and Its Information
Readiness and Social Computing
Personal Management Architecture
Transferable (Ashcroft, 2004;
Network Digital
Generic Analysis
Skills Nonthacumjane ,2011; Libraries
Skills Mazmundar 2007; Khoo, 2005 ) .
Conclusions (6)
…there has been a great change from free information to pay
information, information to knowledge, conventional library to •Job adverts include web development technologies.
digital library, and globalization to technological innovation •Universities are reacting by introducing technology related
(Makori, 2009). courses.
“..digitization, electronic publishing, Web 2.0, Library •It is not very evident if universities are providing the skills as
2.0, RSS, Blogs, Wikis, SMS, Podcasting, Mash- required by adverts
ups, Tagging, Folksonomies, OSS,OA, etc., libraries worldwide
• The curricular still largely stick to the traditional librarians
have been adjusting to the shift from the printed era to the
skills however trying to give also an overview of trends and
digital era.” (Nonthacumjane, 2011)”
References (7) developments in technology
Ashcroft, L. (2004). Developing competencies, critical analysis and personal transferable skills
in future information professionals.
•Universities meant to make librarians make decisions and debate
Khoo, C. (2005). Competencies for new era librarians and information professionals. about technological options but not necessarily making them
Majumdar, N. R. (2007). Skills for library and information professionals working in borderless libraries.
Makori, E.O. (2009). Contemporary issues in information management: A fresh look for information professionals. technical implementers.
Nonthacumjane, P. (2011). Key skills and competencies of a new generation of LIS professionals.
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