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ASLIB TRAINING: CAREERS INFORMATION

What qualities are needed?

Organisational skills are important in order to manage the wide variety of information resources found in today's libraries, information and knowledge centres. Information professionals need to be able to work well under pressure, and be able to use the Internet and other new electronic media to retrieve, manipulate and store information. Inter-personal skills are also vital, as information needs to be communicated as accurately and effectively as possible, irrespective of format. Virtually without exception information professionals are required to be pro-active, often marketing their service to colleagues and fee-paying customers. This is not a career move for the shy and retiring.

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