Bangor librarians face internet threat

Cliff Urr writes “This looks like one of the few – and perhaps first case (but imminent for now) – of college/university librarians losing their jobs due to the Internet. The dreaded “deskilling” word appears in this key sentence from a “consultation document” issued by the university in question, giving a major clue as to how they are rationalzing this: “The support to the academic and student communities from the qualified subject librarians, whatever its contribution to the teaching and research roles of the institution, is hard to justify in value-for-money terms at a time when the process of literature searches is substantially deskilled by online bibliographical resources.”

Bangor librarians face internet threat“

February 17, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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