Getting to the Core of the Matter: Competencies for New E-Resources Librarians

Abstract

As nascent librarians, Emma Lawson and Roën Janyk compared the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) "Core Competences for Electronic Resources Librarians" with the body of knowledge obtained from their Library and Information Science (LIS) graduate program. They noticed the LIS curriculum still focuses on the more traditional public and technical services roles instead of newer areas of librarianship, notably electronic resources management. Prescriptive in nature, the presentation offered concrete solution for LIS programs regarding the preparation of new electronic resource librarians. Copyright © The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.