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The Value of Qualification in the Modern Information World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Tamsin Amos
Tamsin Amos
Affiliation:
Tamsin Amos, a tax information officer at Allen & Overy, reflects on the relative value of librarianship qualifications. She considers the benefits of the professionalisation of information occupations.
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Professions of all types are being affected by globalisation of markets and the information technology revolution. The information world is developing rapidly and increasing numbers of people are being attracted to working within this modern sphere, many of whom have had no formal information training. Does this mean that a library and information qualification is no longer a requirement and if so why As an information graduate in the modern information world, I have two choices. I can take each day as it comes and become a pawn in a high stakes chess game played by others or I can take individual responsibility and develop my own career.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Winter 2001 , pp. 6 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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