About the place of the librarians in the new academic world Virtual Libraries About the place of the librarians in the new academic world Radu Catalin – Carol I National Defence University
Knowledge management and libraries Libraries are in A Time of Parenthesis. They are not what they were, Nor what they will be. (Margaret Knox Goggin paraphrasing John Naisbitt) Apud http://www.ifla.org
Knowledge management and libraries Skate to where the puck's going to be, not where it has been. Anticipate. Anticipate" -- Walter Gretzky (Wayne Gretzky's, the all-time great hockey player, father) Apud http://www.ifla.org
Knowledge management and libraries Strategic Need for Libraries To Change Apud http://www.ifla.org
Knowledge management and libraries What will be “necessary”: Traditional Library Repository Digital Library Printing House Virtual Library
Place of the librarians A view: Apud http://www.ifla.org
Place of the librarians Another view: Teachers Library Repository Other universities Students Research
Conclusions Students requirements are fulfilled by libraries. Traditional Libraries are not dead. Transformation of the libraries should be made according to the changes of the technologies even that involves changes of Mentality. Questions?