Prospects and Problems of Educating Information Professionals in Knowledge Industry for Future Change

Abstract

This paper describes issues relating to information professionals (IP) and its education, it suggests, future change in IP, need for competences responsibilities of IP, and the pull and push Information System Development (ISD).The paper also presents the prospects and problems of educating IP for knowledge industry. The current states of education for information professionals in developing countries are such that:

• Interrelationship between the information and communication technologies and the subject matter of information studies are lagged.
• The development of and the role of technology in an asynchronous system of learning for information professionals were also discussed.

Keywords: Information professional, Knowledge Industry, Problems of information professionals, Pull and Push of information system.