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Evolution and Characteristics of American Librarian Professional Competency Concept
Received date: 2016-08-28
Revised date: 2016-10-21
Online published: 2016-11-05
[Purpose/significance] To understand and master the historical changes and main features of the professional competence connotation of the American Librarians, in order to have some reference to construct the professional competency.[Method/process] By using the method of literature research, this paper analyzes and discusses the evolution of the professional competence connotation and the characteristics of theprofessional competency of Librarians in American.[Result/conclusion] Knowledge, capacity and disposition are the most important elements of librarian professional competency in USA, and view of capacity curriculum based on practice implications, view of social capacity based on social implications, view of behavior capacity based on the surface implications, view of standard capacity based on the realistic implications and view of learning potential based on the substantive implications constitutes its historical forms and interior extension. The apparent features of American view of librarian professional competency are social formation, cultural sensibility, focusing on helping readers and dynamical development. What leads to the differences among above capacity views lies in the differences of research methodology.
Key words： librarian; professional; competency concept; research methodology
Kong Fanchao . Evolution and Characteristics of American Librarian Professional Competency Concept[J]. Library and Information Service, 2016 , 60(21) : 39 -45 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2016.21.005
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