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Holland postulated that the choice of a vocation is partly related to a person’s personality. He theorized that members of a vocation would tend to have similar personalities and people would choose vocations that relate to their personality. He defined personality as a cluster of personal attributes which may be used to measure the person. Describes Holland’s typological theory and its applied implications for librarians and library environments. Presents a study of librarians’ perceptions of the personality of librarians and type of library environment.

Identifies concepts adopted in interviewing clients during counselling. Explains their use in counselling and discusses their application to interviewing enquiries by reference librarians or information specialists. The concepts considered are: empathy, respect, concreteness, genuineness, immediacy, positive regard, understanding, unconditional regard, congruence and confrontation. Stresses the importance of establishing the correct relationship throughout the reference interview.

Identifies the various careers associated with library and information science. Apart from the existing information careers described, also identifies new related areas. Notes that a re‐training programme is necessary if library and information science graduates are to fit into the new information‐related jobs and that African departments of library and information science should review their training objectives and curricula to cater for information‐related jobs other than the training of librarians. Submits that library jobs are becoming increasingly difficult to come by and points out the need to prepare the library and information science graduate for other equally profitable and exciting areas.

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