| Abstract [eng] |
Modern organizations are working in constantly changing environment. Changed public demand for information and digital origin of its organization and processing in modern scientific libraries forms a unique, atypical and constantly changing workflow. Librarians must be even more flexible in performance of every day’s tasks. Constantly changing environment forces organizations to plan and anticipate changes to avoid surprises and failures. There is a focus on the emerging digital society ant its spread in all areas of every day’s life in the scientific literature. Libraries are no exception. New technologies, digital and virtual space challenged librarians to develop competencies atypical for traditional libraries. Modern libraries, regardless of type, constantly forced to adopt their activities and contributions to public needs, and this is especially true in scientific libraries. They first confronts changes of the information environment that affect the scientific community, institutions and users’ needs and expectations. Modern scientific libraries are non-profit organizations actively involved in the development of technology and knowledge infrastructure, it is analysed how librarians are able to adapt to changing environment. This paper examines what kind of competencies library staff should develop to ensure the successful implementation of changes in modern academic libraries. The first part of thesis deals with the scientific literature on organizational changes and its interaction with competencies. There is overview of changes on public domain and effects on services in recent decades in information environment what related to libraries in this paper section. The second part identifies the occurrence and continuous changes that are taking place in scientific libraries and relates changes to competence. The result of study and analysis is theoretical model that describes how changes and competences interact in academic library. The third section describes the methodology of the model study, which conducted in Lithuanian libraries. The fourth part is an overview, analysis and discussion of the survey results. The findings here are what all competencies groups are necessary for successful change implementation but eliminated some elements. The detailed study is required for even more accurate model; More detailed analysis needed on competency elements to define interaction with changes. |
