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CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL

The field of information science is in ongoing change. New technology and innovations, such as electronic material in libraries and archives, causes changes in job descriptions and challenges the old ways of thinking and working. Changes in material, the growth in the use of web environment and increasing the pace at work makes information professional to think about the identity of the profession and oneself. Amount of information has been rising exponentially.  

BOBCATSSS 2009 symposium explores these questions: How to help the users identify good information from all the spam? How to keep the databases running and all the data available to the users at all situations? And what about the physical material? Is there any use for books and paper documents anymore? Information science has many interests with other disciplines like communications theory and mass media, data processing. What kind of collaboration information scientists have with scholars from other fields and how to improve it? What is Librarian 2.0?  

SUB THEMES

1. Interdisciplinarity of Information Science
2. Information Professional and Information Management
3. The current impact of the new technologies in the life of the Information Professional
4. The rise and fall of physical libraries and archives
5. Information Literacy
6. eLibraries & eArchives
7. Librarian 2.0

BOBCATSSS 2009 Organization
Porto / Tampere
Email: bobcatsss2009@uta.fi

Department of Information Studies, Bobcatsss 2009,
FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland