The qualities that modern librarians should possess. Current situation of librarians
(A) The overall quality of the current library management team is low.
The restriction of external conditions and the influence of internal factors lead to the low overall quality of the library. Some librarians are content with the status quo, stick to the rules, do not make progress, do not explore, not only do not actively acquire new knowledge, but even some old knowledge is lost.
(B) professional knowledge has not adapted to the requirements of the network environment.
Because most librarians accept the teaching contents and methods of traditional courses, they mostly operate according to the traditional management and service methods. No matter the graduates majoring in library and information science or those not majoring in library and information science, their professional knowledge is aging, and many people lack the basic knowledge of modern management and modern processing technology.
(C) unscientific knowledge structure
Network library needs compound talents, while library and information education in reality pays attention to cultivating professional talents. At present, there are some problems in the training and education of library and information professionals in China, such as the division of majors is too fine, the caliber of majors is too narrow, and theory is emphasized rather than practice. Therefore, the trained graduates have a single knowledge structure, narrow vision, lack of modern technical knowledge and application skills such as computer, network and communication, and are difficult to adapt to the new requirements of the network environment.
Second, the qualities that librarians should have in the new period
(A) ideological quality
The library is a terrible place. It is difficult to do a good job in modern literature information service without good ideological quality and dedication. There is no highly responsible attitude and rigorous and realistic style. If you work hard, it will be difficult to master new technologies and explore new fields in the future modern service, and it will inevitably be left behind by the train of the times.
(2) Professional quality
As a librarian, rich professional knowledge and skilled service skills are the basic requirements for him to be competent for his job. If you don't have certain professional knowledge, even the most basic? Borrow and return? There is no guarantee, let alone guiding readers and users to find information. Therefore, in an information age, librarians must systematically master one or two professional knowledge and cover other disciplines as much as possible to grasp the intersection and infiltration between disciplines. It can retrieve the information that readers and users need from multiple angles and topics.
(3) Information literacy
In the ever-changing and innovative information resources, there is often mixed information garbage. Librarians with high information literacy should have the ability to identify network information, selectively screen, process and copy applicable users and information, reduce their time and energy in searching, identifying and obtaining relevant information, and become navigators for users to use information resources.
(D) Psychological quality
Good psychological quality is: open-minded, optimistic, cheerful, open-minded, kind to others. Colleagues should respect each other, unite with each other, work with Qi Xin and cooperate closely. We should think of others everywhere, tolerate their shortcomings and defects, consult each other when things happen, help others solve their difficulties enthusiastically, and try our best to establish a harmonious and intimate cooperative relationship with colleagues.
(5) Cultural quality
Librarians must master professional knowledge of other sciences besides books and information. It can provide professionals with all kinds of information they need, answer indicative inquiries in related scientific fields, and provide higher-level information services such as information review, thematic index and information analysis.
(6) Public relations ability
Librarians should strengthen the knowledge study of soft sciences such as psychology and public relations, exercise the ability of language expression and persuasion, and strive to shorten the relationship between librarians and users? * * * knowledge? Distance, and gradually establish a mutual trust and understanding of the compatible relationship, with sincere service to win the support of more users, improve the status and influence of librarians in the eyes of users.
Third, the construction of librarians in the new period
(1) Do a good job in skills training and knowledge updating for librarians in the new era.
The library should establish the people-oriented thought and put the development of people in the first place. We should base ourselves on the long-term, make overall arrangements, and train personnel in business knowledge and skills in a planned and step-by-step manner. First, training new librarians in basic positions, learning the basic theory of library and information knowledge and its computer application, subject indexing application, data construction and retrieval, sci-tech novelty retrieval, machine-readable catalogue, standardization, automation and network management, so that they can perform their duties better. The second is to train experienced librarians to update their knowledge and organize them to learn modern knowledge such as library automation, digitalization, networking and virtualization, so as to keep up with the development of knowledge economy and the requirements of library development and establish a complete education and training mechanism for all library staff.
(2) Establish and improve a reasonable management mechanism.
Establishing and perfecting reasonable employment mechanism, education mechanism, competition mechanism, mobility mechanism and decision-making mechanism is the best concrete embodiment of librarian's humanistic management. Specifically, first, managers should establish a sense of service. Everything is for librarians, and everything is based on the interests of librarians, caring about librarians' thoughts, study, work and life, and providing them with reliable protection in all aspects. Second, according to the individual differences of different librarians, mobilize the enthusiasm of each librarian, give play to their potential, encourage and help them achieve reasonable work goals and life values. Third, establish and improve scientific attendance, assessment, rewards and punishments and supervision mechanisms. It is necessary to establish a healthy competition mechanism according to the librarian's task completion, scientific research achievements, ideology and morality. Avoid unfair practices in which individuals have the final say in positions, promotion of professional titles and work arrangements. Fourth, we must ensure that competition is open, transparent and fair. Fifth, democratic management should be implemented and librarians should participate in management. When making goals and plans, we should solicit the opinions of librarians extensively, so that the decision can be recognized by the majority of librarians and fully reflect the sense of ownership of librarians.
(C) Optimize the structure of librarians.
The library should determine the proportion of its staff according to its nature, type and function. Make people of different occupations, ages and abilities reasonably combine into a whole, efficient and optimized group structure, so that people of all levels and types can perform their duties and do their best. For example, those talents with organizational management ability, good interpersonal communication and certain expertise are promoted to leadership positions, so that they can give full play to their intelligence, mobilize the enthusiasm of employees and enhance the cohesion of the library; Put people with deep professional knowledge and practical work in the business department to improve the professional level of the library; Let young, studious and professional librarians focus on modern information service and realize modern information management and service as soon as possible.
Throughout the ages, libraries have been playing the role of connecting the past with the future, accumulating wisdom and transmitting civilization. Only by improving the quality of librarians to a certain extent, making one person have more posts and skilled job skills, can we ensure the smooth progress of library reform, make librarians update their concepts, adapt to the market economy and cooperate with the overall reform of the school. In a word, the quality training of librarians plays a decisive role in the library. The era of knowledge economy puts forward higher requirements for the quality of university librarians. Every librarian must overcome difficulties, constantly improve his professional quality and self-cultivation, supplement and update his knowledge and professional skills in time, so as to meet the needs of the rapid development of library cause and become a compound talent in university library management in the new period.