The Project BIBLIO – Boosting Digital Skills and Competencies for Librarians in Europe: An Innovative Training Model for Creating Digital Librarian

Abstract

The "Digital Heritage: Spotlight on Europe" column examines technological advances internal and external to cultural institutions. The digital shift changed radically how cultural heritage is made, disseminated, distributed, accessed, consumed, and monetized. One of the most important revolutions is that the user role changed dramatically, shifting from passive observers to active participants and content producers with many new and exciting opportunities for engagement, creative use, and access. The strength of the column is its broad, international focus, and contributors are encouraged to explore issues and recent advances in digital heritage theories, methodologies, standards relevant to the European region, as well as the larger, global audience. Interested authors are invited to submit proposals and articles to the column editor at

Perceived training needs assessment of librarians in Tanzanian academic libraries aimed at introducing microlearning intervention to training

“…They were of the view that the responsibility of the librarian and information scientist has increased regarding packaging and repackaging of information, electronic publishing, advising users on how to identify relevant electronic sources. Barbuti et al (2019) emphasised the need for libraries and their librarians to reinvent their models, ways of working, and techniques. The risk of a digital competencies gap is high.…”

Digital Transformation of Educational Institutions: Challenges, Opportunities and Needs Caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic

“…Since the ascent of the World Wide Web over two decades ago, scholars, academicians, artists, and academic librarians have enjoyed progressively greater, more robust, and more effective access to digital scholarly research resources, permitting a more robust and more effective access to digital collections and tools (Bailey, 2017). The role of digital libraries is changing, making possible new services supporting the user's activities (Barbuti, Di Giorgio, & Valentini, 2019). Over the last years, open access (OA movement or initiative), that promotes equal and open access to scholarly research resources, has grown and evolved to provide more equitable access for academicians, scholars, and artists beyond those in the developed, fiscally more endowed areas and institutions (Laakso et al, 2011).…”