Does an education at information & library science schools lead to value-added services in libraries or information companies? Questions and potential answers.

An education in an area of information and library science has an very important role for future carrier of information specialists, information managers, librarians, and related professions. Great visions, a present reality, challenges, low lewel of information literacy in Czech Republic, and potential solutions. Enthusiasm often replaces professionalism. Requested: better structure of topics, more intensive pressure on libraries and their services, also professors at universities and high-schools, etc.

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Richard Papík, Ph.D., assistant professor and deputy director at the Charles University Institute of Information Studies & Librarianship. His favourite specialisation: online retrieval and services, scientific and business information, competitive intelligence, project management in academical, commercial, and non-profit sphere incl. participations in Internet projects (e.g. http://www.konjunktura.cz). Professional, research, or teaching experinces in Germany and United States.