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ADOPSI INOVASI MEDIA TEKNOLOGI DAN SIKAP PUSTAKAWAN DALAM MENGHADAPINYA
Authors: Abdul Karim Batubara
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Today, in the 2090s, no individual scholar or research group can work without a librarian as a collaborator. Library science is now a track of the advanced degree in every discipline. It is a track taken by people very much like those who once migrated from academic fields into librarianship, but the name librarian now designates not so much a separate profession as a type of scholar. While every scholar and scientist learns how to use information in the creation of new ideas and new information and while each masters a very substantial body of information, the librarian-scholar or scientist is the discz~linary information specialist. [The librarianj is the eyes and ears of the research community, constantly surveying and mapping the information universe for colleagues. Librarians are the ones who know how to find and use the most up-to-date version of scholarly resources, how long these resources are likely to maintain their current shape and content, and how the process of change works. the corps of librarians . . . live in departments and research laboratories and have absorbed many of the duties that used to be performed by computer consultants as well as reference librarians. Their names are to be found among the authors of most publications.”