Developing Librarian Competencies for the Digital Age identifies specific digital skills needed for success, ways of developing those skills, and ways of assessing them. This book identifies the crux of what it means to a librarian in the 21st century. It is aimed at library professionals at any stage in their career in any library setting to become proactive in coping with the near constant state of change affecting all libraries and all library users in the modern era.

• Contents
• Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Foundations and History of the Profession
• 2 Information Resources and Collections
• 3 Organization of Knowledge and Information
• 4 Communication Skills, Marketing, IT Skills, and Teamwork
• 5 Reference and User Services
• 6 Research Skills and Competencies Necessary for Librarians in the Digital Age
• 7 Current and Future Trends for Supporting Online and Distance Education
• 8 Strategic and Innovative
• 9 Core Competencies across the Profession
• 10 The Library of the Future
• Appendix
• Index
• About the Editors
• Contributors