Education of librarians and the challenges of the new library world

Abstract

During the recent years a variety of terms have emerged in the library world about what librarians will be in future and about the skills that they will need: digital librarian, data librarian, infobroker, cybrarian? This is certainly an answer to the „ brave new library world“ (to quote the title of the well-known book by Aldous Huxley), which we are confronted by and which is frequently described – mostly by individuals that deal with libraries in their everyday life seldom or not at all. In this context „digital librarian“ is the most modest term. But what does reality look like?