Title: The role of a digitallibrarian in themanagement of digitalinformation systems(DIS)
Abstract: Stresses that the multimedia nature of the next
generation of digital libraries requires the digital librarians
(DL) to be essentially a type of specialist librarian who has
to manage and organize the digital library, handle the
specialized tasks of massive digitization, storage, access,
digital knowledge mining, digital reference services,
electronic information services, search co-ordination, and
manage the archive and its access. The digital librarian
acts as guardian of the information superhighway/the
universal digital library or the global digital library and
acts as a symbiotic human-machine guru. This article also
highlights the roles and functions of a DL in information
retrieval, content delivery, navigation, and browsing. It
envisages the professional education and training for
digital librarians in the management of digital information
systems. It denotes the DL's interface functions, roles,
skills and competencies for the management of digital
information systems in the important areas of imaging
technologies, optical character recognition, markup
languages, cataloguing, metadata, multimedia indexing
and database technology, user interface design,
programming, and Web technology. This paper finally
advocates and targets the task of creating a new job title
± digital librarian ± to take care of digital libraries and to
manage the digital information system
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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