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International Conference on Digital Libraries archive
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries table of contents

Chapel Hill, NC, USA

SESSION: Digital library curriculum table of contents

Pages: 187 - 188

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-354-9

Authors

Youngok Choi	State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, New York
Edie Rasmussen	The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Without well-educated digital librarians, digital libraries cannot reach their full potential. In order to offer relevant courses and programs to train digital librarians, educators need feedback from practitioners. Current digital library professionals in academic libraries in the United States were surveyed to determine their activities, skills and training gaps. The findings have implications for the design of digital library education in order to meet workplace needs.

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