New Technologies,

New Professionals

Nicholas Robinson-GarciaGraduate Trainee

Science and ScientificCommunication Evaluación

New Professionals Conference

6th July 2009

Web 2.0

Library 2.0

Web 2.0

Library 2.0

Web 2.0 Blogs

Wikis

Forum

Collaboration

Long-life learning

Customization

Recommender systems

RSS

Web feeds

Microblogging

podcasting

Marketing

New Technologies

New Professionals?

Aren’t they doing the

same thing?

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“My take is that libraries still do thethings they did a hundred years ago

but all these things [technology] have been added on top of it”

Keith Fiels

Executive director, ALA

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Technology changes

They want information, but they want:

– The latest

– The best…

… and they want it and for

Do we really need new

professionals?

So there’s no need to overdo it!

Do we really need new

professionals?

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New Professionals

Skilfull, creative,strong-

willed and…

… very, very, very

enthusiastic

Public librarians

Academic librariansNew career profiles

Three “success stories”

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Three “success stories”

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Three “success stories”

Catuxa Seoane

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Three “success stories”

Catuxa Seoane Javier Leiva

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Three “success stories”

Catuxa Seoane

Daniel Torres Salinas

Javier Leiva

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Three “success stories”

Catuxa Seoane

Daniel Torres Salinas

Javier Leiva

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Find your own niche!

If they did it…

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Thank you!

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Science and ScientificCommunication Evaluación

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Robinson/1199102564

Nicholas Robinson-GarciaGraduate Trainee

Science and ScientificCommunication Evaluación

Licensed under Creative Commons 3.0