Attitude of Library Professionals towards Adopting New Skills and Professional Competencies: A Study

Periodic Research (P: ISSN No. 2231-0045 RNI No. UPBIL/2012/55438 VOL.-7, ISSUE-3, February-2019 E: ISSN No. 2349-9435)

 Abstract



 Deepak Sharma 

 Librarian, Indian School of Hospitality, Gurugram, Haryana



Sangita Garg 

Librarian, Lord Krishna College of Education, Adhoya, Ambala, Haryana 

Attitude of library professionals plays an important role in professional development of the organization and at the same time affects the organizations goals and targets. Learning new skills and becoming professionally competent is important requirement for library professionals. To ensure place in an organization and to provide users up-to-date information, it is necessary that professionals should continue learning new and latest skills. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a vital tool for maintaining the skills and expertise of staff, especially with regard to the use of Information and Communication Technology. The present paper is an effort to understand the attitude of professionals towards adopting new skills and professional competencies. An online survey has been created and shared on social media to get feedback from professionals. A total of 57 professionals responded. Being an online survey, feedback have been received from librarians from all types of academic and research libraries across the country. The results are shown through tables and figures. Some important aspects like average qualifications of professionals, their computer literacy skills, their capabilities on open source technology, services offered, factors affecting the librarians’ capabilities etc. are presented in this paper. Authors are hopeful that this paper will help decision makers to know the librarians’ point of view on various library related issues.

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