본 연구는 사회환경의 변화와 정보기술의 도입에 따른 도서관환경의 변화를 문헌조사를 통하여 조사하였다. 그리고 정보사회에서 필요로 하는 사서직, 정보전문직의 교육과 관련하여 사서들에 대한 설문조사를 통하여 전통적인 도서관에서 디지털 도서관으로 급속히 변화하고 있는 외부환경에 잘 적응할 수 있는 전문직의 양성을 위한 문헌정보학의 교과과정에 대한 진단을 시도하였다.
The scope and the magnitude of change that are occurring in libraries today are exciting and the new developments in information technology challenging. A change in vision as well as activities and operations is required. Librarians need to make full use of information and multimedia technology to support this greatly expanded teaching venture. During the period of the 1st to 5th conference of Korean Society for Information Management produces 199 articles. The articles composed of 25 sub subjects of the knowledge of the library and information science. Some of the interesting sub-subjects were as follows: Information retrieval, Indexing, Classification, Library management, Information service, Cataloging and Digital library. The professional librarians pointed out the essential curricula of the library and informations science education. These are Introduction to Library Science, Organization of Information Resources, Information Retrieval, Multimedia technology, Information System, Library Management, Networks, Data Base, Indexing & thesaurus, Collection development, User Studies, New Media, Online Search.
