CHAPTER 6

What Is the Role of a Modern Digital Librarian?

In today’s world, librarians, and in particular, digital librarians, are responsible for managing numerous information systems, processes, and staff. These responsibilities require the adoption of a multifaceted skill set that requires a deep understanding of the importance of data and the ability to manage that data.1

The data must be clearly identified, organized, and archived, and to be successful, a modern digital librarian must be able to, among other tasks, clearly communicate the need for:

Organizing and uniformly categorizing data

Centralizing the management of data across an organization, in both online and offline forms

Deleting unnecessary or expired data in a way that ...

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