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Article: Information Professionals: Changing Tools, Changing Roles.
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- Information Outlook
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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No Profession will undergo more radical change between 2000 and 2010 than will the Information Professional.
THIS PRESUMPTUOUS PREDICTION IS BASED ON A SET OF CONVERGENT TRENDS that, taken together, imply a coming new world for information professionals. We associate these trends with a series of studies we have performed for industry, government, and academia to draw implications for information professionals. We make the case for dramatic changes, then recommend particular actions to the profession and to its individual members. Within the scope of this short article, we don't try to distinguish implications specifically for various information professionals ...