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Walking with Librarians ... "Teachers?," Researchers? ... "Leaders? Core Competencies

The paradigm of the Information Literacy differs from its predecessors (user education and bibliographic instruction) to require that librarians assume roles until now, neglected or assigned to other professionals. In a short period of time we can not imagine a librarian who does not demonstrate competence communication processes and research and not prepared to lead the knowledge management tasks that are generated in the context where it provides services ..

The necessary inclusion of information workers in today's knowledge society requires that librarians and information professionals play an active role in the appropriation and transfer of scientific information in the different scenarios where they develop their technical and professional activity. Acquire knowledge, develop skills and adopt attitudes that have been the result optimal performance for access and appropriate use of information by librarians, is a responsibility that has imposed the new century and to be maintained throughout life

Librarians educators then become a continuous learning process, characterized by innovative methods of interaction with people to whom they transmitted knowledge.

Librarians authorities have become transmitters of knowledge and information in different contexts of organizations. Must interact with peers and with users, showing ability to communicate effectively. This role as an educator can be supported by information technologies, integrating in this sense virtual learning network.

The librarian must also perform tasks research should explore the results of studies applied to services and library users and be prepared to conduct systematic reviews of important topics from the world of information science and documentation

must disclose all information regarding your organization, its members and the environment so that decisions regarding strategies, objectives and functioning of the organization are based on concrete data showing organizational behavior.

Then we librarians teaching, research and most importantly the attitude to succeed in leading the process of managing information and knowledge in our library

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