Abstract:
The movement of human societies has been from being traditional to industrialization, from industrial to post-industrial, and finally towards the electronic and information age. Parallel to these changes, methods of service delivery in various professions have been affected. Employees require continuous in-service training to achieve higher efficiency in order to upgrade their level of knowledge, awareness, and technical, professional, and occupational skills. The goal of in-service training is adaptation to the environment, the ability to produce more, increasing efficiency in the current job, and obtaining better conditions for attaining higher positions and providing ideal services to users. The profession of librarianship is among the professions that has undergone extensive changes with the emergence of new communication and information technologies. This issue has prompted library managers to turn to a new management philosophy based on participation, which rejects centralization in libraries and depends on the individual skills of employees. In this article, an attempt has been made to examine the above issues in connection with the individual and professional needs of librarians and the necessity of holding in-service courses for them, and solutions for the optimal implementation of these courses are provided.
Machine summary:
com created the concern that with the increase in printed books and the creation of private libraries, their role as keepers of books would be eliminated, and with the entry of computer technology into the field of librarianship and changes in service delivery methods and the creation of information databases by private companies, this anxiety has arisen that librarians will no longer be needed.
Users will need this organized information, and it is librarians who assist them in the matter of retrieval; however, in the present era, where information formats and methods of information retrieval and evaluation have changed, librarians can only maintain their role if they strive to acquire the necessary skills alongside the emergence of new technologies.
In general, the objectives of in-service training can be listed as follows: Increasing skill, knowledge, ability, and the spirit of cooperation among employees; Aligning the workforce with new tasks and missions; Creating qualitative changes in employees and the possibility of obtaining better and higher positions; Increasing decision-making power, especially in top-level managers, and consequently reducing the complications of bureaucracy and the slowness of business flow; Reducing costs and incurred waste(9:112); Creating more ability in production and providing better services; and Creating desirable behavior consistent with the sustainable values of society.
In-service Training for Librarians The increasing and extensive developments in sciences and arts, the development or limitation of organizational goals, and political, economic, social, and cultural changes and transformations make the need for new training in organizations essential and justify the necessity of paying more attention to the training of human resources.
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