Abstract: Pressures to increase the role of information and knowledge in national economies have provoked a wide-ranging debate about what kinds of competencies young people and adults now need. The workforce is “upskilling”, both in terms of the average educational level of workers and the types of job that they are performing. White-collar,
knowledge economy
Librarian and Information Professional as Knowledge Navigator
Abstract: The new Kowledge Economy is a period of rapid change-a paradim shift-for librarians. Rory Chase discusses why it can be viewed as either the beginning of a new golden age for the profession, or the point when librarians became marginalized, and perhaps made irrelevant, by the rapid advances in digital computer and telecommunication