The Evolving Life of a Librarian

By Ooi Kok Hin

March 2016 PENANG PROFILE
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Information Technology has changed the contents kept in libraries from 100% print to a mix of digital and print. How does this affect how a librarian thinks and works?Dr Rashidah Begum bt Fazal Mohamed.Picture a librarian. Many of us would imagine her (it’s often “her”) to be spending most of her time arranging books back onto the shelves. Is there more to a librarian’s role than cataloguing and stacking books? Of course there is. Neil Gaiman had this to say...

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