Needed competitive experiments for the professionals and practitioners in Library and Information Science to market their knowledge in the intellectual domain: LIS knowledge requirements perception

Abstract

No doubt that the perceptions of employers in the academic domain of Library and Information Sciences (LIS) have been changed nowadays very significantly. One of the reasons is for that the competitive knowledge market with digital knowledge commodities. Therefore, the academic domain of LIS has to critically associate with ongoing changes of subject's knowledge as well as knowledge commodities in the job market. It is understandable that initiatives have to be taken by LIS professionals and practitioners to study ongoing changes, as well as challenges, are happening in the knowledge competitive society. Therefore, there is a huge demand to understand current employment trends that are required for young graduates in Library and Information Sciences. This paper has been insight knowledge and skills that required for the young graduates in LIS to serve the expanding and changing digital knowledge market world. On that purpose, the research has conducted based on online content analysis of LIS market demands for three years (2014-2017). Based on that research process, it finds out that not only subject specialties but also skills, knowledge and experiences of LIS are drastically challenging. As a result, the researcher has suggested those findings the status quo of core requirements for the young graduates in LIS are needed to comprehend to cope with the digital knowledge society.