Changing Role of Library Para-Professionals in Cataloguing: Implications for Education and Training.

Abstract

Librarians arc today, changing their work pattern and role in response to the introduction of computers and their related technologies- Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into libraries. Para-professionals in cataloguing are no exception as their role is equally changing in line with demands of the new information environment tagged Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The objective of the paper is therefore to bring into focus the way and manner para-professionals and, in fact, librarians in cataloguing are changing their work patterns in order to remain relevant in the new information environment of which the computer and related technologies constitute the work tool.