The development of information technology has reshaped no profession more extensively than that of librarianism. Known now as information management, knowledge management or library science, librarianship has extended well beyond the galleries, libraries, archives, schools and museums where librarians were once to be found dwelling amongst shelves of leather tomes.
Now an information management graduate can expect to find work in a host of newly hatched professional roles: electronic database, records and archive management, IT specialisations, specialist research roles, information analysis, community office and data wrangling are now the terrain of trained information specialists.
