Librarianship Education and Information management: The British Experience

The role and function of libraries has changed considerably in our renewing information world: we must supply users with ordered information. We must view the theoretical background and the practice of the triple reader-document-librarian formula in a new light. During a two-week visit to university and public libraries in England at the beginning of 2000 we could see what computer use and connection to the world wide web means. The name of librarianship has also changed at the University of Northumbria: 'Information Studies' refers to librarians' change of mentality. Reforms in the education of future librarians are an integral part of national research projects.The dominance of the lifelong learning attitude makes librarians open towards the youngest and the oldest readers. This is the role of library and librarian, the computer data-base-built virtual library and the information manager. Librarian edu-cation must be based on this change of mentality; the creation of common national databases is a priority and must influence research in library and information studies. 

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