What is it about?

To prepare and propose a job description for and identify the organizational position of systems librarians.

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Why is it important?

investigations of the official employment sources and observations indicate that no official position related to the management of the library systems has ever been defined.

Perspectives

As the present research is solely for the purpose of producing a job description for the systems librarian, it is therefore proposed that a separate research investigates their educational needs and specifies relevant subject headings. As employment of people in the position of systems librarians requires the necessary experience and expertise, therefore as in Western nations have a field of study called “systems librarianship” in their departments of library and information science, it is proposed that a research in relation with the feasibility of establishing the “systems librarianship” field is initiated so that the required foundation for the establishment of relevant courses in order to educate the specialists required for the post of systems librarians is provided.

Dr Farshid Danesh
Regional Information Center for Science and Technology

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This page is a summary of: Job description requirements for systems librarians in Iranian university libraries, The Electronic Library, February 2009, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/02640470910934597.
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