Library Research - Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

search."1 Based on the objectives of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, professionals will need to have competencies in five major areas: organization of information, information needs and information use, information technologies, research methods, and management. Continuation of current patterns of professional education will lead to overproduction of undertrained individuals. To meet short-term needs, seminars, institutes, and certificate programs should be encouraged. Long term needs will require that professionals be made acquainted with the total information process and that a basic science of information be recognized as a scholarly discipline.