THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE FOR LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Abstract

The training was a 3 days intensive and interactive lecture designed specially for librarians in special libraries to know new trends in the library in this digital age and to know that their day-to-day and moment-to-moment responsibilities have dramatically shifted from the traditional library to the digital library. Librarians must keep up-to-date with latest developments across all technologies and mediums while still providing traditional onsite librarian functions. The aim of the training was to equip librarians in this digital age to provide access, guidance and training to both physical and electronic materials housed onsite, and in online archives while remaining on the leading-edge of the vast digital databases available.