چکیده:
The main purpose of this paper is to study the IT-based job opportunities for Library and Information Science (LIS) graduates and identify the necessary competencies for an “IT librarian”. In a purposeful sampling, 596 advertisements of IT-based librarian jobs for LIS graduates in 10 countries on Indeed.com in 2013 were selected and analyzed. The findings showed that the four job categories, namely “IT Librarian”, “Digital Librarian/ Digital Services Librarian”, “Metadata Librarian”, and “Digital Archivist”, have 38% (227), 36% (213), 17% (103), and 9% (53) of the job advertisements respectively. Moreover, the findings revealed that 75 items of knowledge and skills are in the job advertisements of the "IT Librarian" job category. To the authors’ knowledge, the present research is the first to comprehensively identify newly emerging IT-based job titles in the field of Library and Information Science. It exhaustively reports the required competencies in the “IT Librarian” job category.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Analyzing the Market of Newly Emerging IT-Based Jobs in Library and Information Science and Identifying IT Librarian Competencies Rahim Shahbazi Fatmeh Fahimnia Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Associate Professor, Department of Information Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani Science & Knowledge Studies, University of University, Tabriz, Iran Tehran, Tehran, Iran Corresponding author: Shahbazi Hazaruniv.
edu Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to study the IT-based job opportunities for Library and Information Science (LIS) graduates and identify the necessary competencies for an “1T librarian”.
To the authors' knowledge, the present research is the first to comprehensively identify newly emerging IT-based job titles in the field of Library and Information Science.
Consequently, while choosing LIS, for instance, as a discipline, applicants should pay close attention to such necessary factors of success in the job market as “the number and diversity of available job opportunities”, “the economic blooming of the society”, “the number of graduates looking for a job”, “the number of libraries and information centers”, “the required knowledge and skills of graduates and the needs of the job market”, so that they can plan appropriately (Mansourian, 2011).
In the first step, in order to identify the initial list of newly emerging IT-based librarian7 jobs, the following resources were used: - Studies including Yuan, 1996; Croneis and Henderson, 2002; Choi and Rasmussen, 2009; Mansourian, 2011); - Job finding websites such as American Library Association Website (Joblist.