Librarians' technical skills

Since librarians in the digital age work with a huge amount of electronic information as well as networked management systems, their proficiency in various computer software and hardware is also an important quality.

Certainly, for those high-tech librarians such as Systems librarians, technical services librarians and digitization librarians, they need to possess advanced computer technology to accomplish their duties. For general librarians, they also need to know how to use some software applications including automated library systems, MS Office or other word processing, interlibrary loan systems, virtual reference software, emails software, Web browers, imple troubleshooting, etc.

You may find a lot of reference books about computer technologies from the Internet or book stores. A good reference of relevant library technologies is The Accidental Systems Librarian, and you will find many useful links there.

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