The traditional image of a librarian is that of a person (usually a woman) who is concerned with organizing collections of books and related materials, usually in paper form, in libraries, and servicing users with these resources. But with the coming of the information age, the career of library studies has evolved to include accessing materials from a range of electronic sources, such as CD roms, DVDs, and of course, that unfathomable frontier of information, the Internet. Career & Education recently visited the Department of Library and Information Studies at the University of the West Indies, where we learned of the new developments in this interesting career. On hand to share with us were head of the department Professor Fay Durrant, lecturer Barbara Gordon, departmental librarian Mark-Shane Scale, and fieldwork coordinator Eppie Edwards.
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