The Role of Department Information and Libraries Science in Interfacing the New Technological Requirements and Changes:Iraqi Dept. Asamples

Abstract

This research examined the role of Iraqi library and information departments and their ability for keeping up with the developments and changes in current technology by their ability of preparing and qualifying the students to keep abreast of requirements and changes of technology under which the specialization undergoes in Iraq. The importance of this research appears in explaining the current situation of library and information department that keep up with the current technological development by qualify the students to face the information age. The research examined a necessary and vital side in this field that is the computerized automated system curriculums which represent the base of success in libraries and library and information departments at the time of current developments and all that concerns this side including trends, models, aims and description. The researchers tried to know the teaching of Automated systems and the current technology and their representation size in the computerized automated system curriculums for keeping up with the current developments and their reflections on the aims that contribute in developing the teaching and qualifying in the field of automated systems current technology and the problems which face the Iraqi library and information departments in qualifying students in this field for keeping up with the current and future developments.The researchers have reached to a group of outstanding results :1.The large similarity and interference in preparation and qualification levels that presented by Iraqi departments regarding the title of curriculums and their contents both at the undergraduate and post-graduate studies levels.2.The technology trend of Automated Courses in the programs and departments of Iraqi universities for undergraduate and post-graduate studies, is good in comparison with technological trends and the current changes that occur in the specialization of library and information. The researchers presented suggestions, the most important ones are:1.Reviewing in the reiterated items of the courses in different levels and substituting them by new courses for increasing and extending the courses that relate to the automated systems and the current technology to other courses.2.There has to be a practical training in Iraqi library and information departments besides the two courses of the practical training which are being taught in these departments after improving them and making them more useful through adding basic information which relate to the computerized automated systems.