The “edulibrarian”

Abstract

There are no doubts: Information, Knowledge and Learning are the key words of our era. Always during the time, our profession has had a specific mission: to serve the needs of the society; nowadays, more than ever, user must be the center of our operating. We have no choice: in order to survive and in order to continue to be indispensable, we must adapt ourselves to the contemporary world. It should not be a strain, but a stimulus! We wanted to travel around and into the specialized literature, looking for new roads to run, for new professional stimuli to enjoy, for innovated roles to cover. The paradox of a society which defines itself through the power of information, communication and learning, reducing at the same time our profession as something “optional”, needs to be understood by us: if we know the problem, as Reflective Information Professionals we can solve it. It's on us, it's our responsibility: we can make society understood we are indispensable. What's the way to achieve it? This literature review is about it.