The changing roles of librarians
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2019-02-08
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Central Department of Library and Information Science
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This thesis entitled "THE CHANGING ROLES OF LIBRARIANS" aim to find out the
changing roles of librarians at Tribhuvan University Central Library and constituent
college libraries of Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu valley. Today, librarians are
confronted with new roles during the execution of their work. The main objectives are
to examine the competencies and skills of librarians in the current information age, to
determine the effects of technology on the roles of librarians, to study the challenges
faced by librarians in their new roles. Academic libraries have not sufficient budget to
include fully automated system, in those libraries there are many more librarians who
worked before 10-15years, they hesitate to adopt and use new technology because they
do not have sufficient skills about uses of ICT (Information Communication
Technology), these libraries provide especially manual system and little more
automated system, and librarians are working in both systems at same time. They feel
more difficult to handle both in same time are the major problems of Tribhuvan
university Central Library and constituent college libraries of T.U. in Kathmandu
valley. The related literature is reviewed from journals, thesis, articles, survey and
internet. Totally eleven (11) literatures are reviewed for this study. The current study
employed quantitative approaches. The study was descriptive in nature. Purposive
sampling was used to select respondents from each of the twenty two(22) libraries. Data
was collected using a questionnaire. A population of twenty seven (27) respondents was
to be surveyed but only twenty four (24) of them responded to the questionnaire from
nineteen (19) colleges. Quantitative data was descriptively analyzed using the MS
Excel.
The study revealed that the role of librarians at the T.U. has not necessarily changed in
terms of duties, responsibilities, functions and processes, but what has changed is the
intensity and manner of conducting the role. The main challenge remains that of re training of staff in the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs).
Therefore the study recommended training of staff in the use of ICTs, acquiring
powerful servers to increase bandwidth connectivity and allocating more funds towards
various activities. Librarians should take the initiative of keeping abreast with the
current information technologies which change with times for them to meet the
changing needs of their users and to also keep a breast with the emerging trends.
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Academic Librarians
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Jha ,Puja Kumari (2019). The changing roles of librarians.[Master's Thesis ,Tribhuvan University ].TUCDLIS elibrary.https:// elibrary.tucdlis.edu.np /