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标题：The Required Competencies of Para-Professionals in Library Services of Sarawak State Libraries
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作者：Mohamad Noorman Masrek ; Rusnah Johare ; Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad 等
期刊名称：IBIMA Business Review
电子版ISSN：1947-3788
出版年度：2013
卷号：2013
DOI：10.5171/2012.451192
出版社：IBIMA Publishing
摘要：Para-professionals in the library services are library associates, library technicians, or library assistants who assist the professional librarians in library-related task. Mining the literature unveiled that studies investigating the required competencies on para-professional are still very limited. To address this gap, this paper reports a study that was conducted with the purpose to identify the required competencies of para-professionals in the library services. Adopting the survey research methodology, data were collected using questionnaires from 502 para-professional librarians working with the Sarawak State Library in Sarawak, Malaysia. The findings suggest that all the seven sets of competencies, namely general competencies; Agency and Organizational Knowledge; Reference and Research; Collection Management; Content Organization and Structure and Library Technology Management are either moderately or highly required by the para-professionals. Based on these findings, the appropriate training needs could be identified.
关键词：Competencies; para-professionals; training; libraries; Malaysia.