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标题：Information Professionals in the South Asian Region: The Challenges Ahead
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作者：P.R. Goswami ; P.K. Jain
期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1931-6550
出版年度：2008
卷号：34
期号：3
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Information professionals working on the Indian subcontinent face many challenges. As libraries in the region struggle to develop new models of service and operation to meet the needs of the current information explosion and the ever increasing cost of information, they face innumerable barriers. In the face of the emerging trend of economic globalization and the information technology (IT) revolution, many Indian and South Asian library professionals recognize the current realities and the need to adopt many of the strategies of their western colleagues in order to provide the information services that will enable their fellow citizens and countries to be competitive on the world stage. The barriers they face range from insufficient technological capacity and antiquated curricula for training library professionals to inexperience with strategies for managing digital collections and the effects of government infrastructures that prohibit or restrict the development of library networks that would otherwise expand user services and resources.