Anyone can notice that there are too much information almost about anything, from simply looking up a cooking recipe to setting up a workplace! This is making many people furious about the different types of information resources or formats they should be looking for, what the accurate information appropriate to their information seeking needs, how to locate this information and if they should use it or not!
Is it possible to maintain and Handel this issue? The role of information professional have evolved over the years from just acting as information locators and providers to being a crucial asset by educate users, disseminate, criticize, filter and analysis information resources for retrieving users information seeking Needs. Today the role of Information Specialist has many aspects. Here are a list of what an information specialist can do:
- Support users information seeking behavior needs
- Understand and determine the users accurate information needs
- Knows the flow, the history and the future of information
- Identify sources of information
- Organize information by analyzing, classifying and cataloging data
- Locate information to meet the users information seeking requirements
- Notify users about information availability
- Resolves information retrieval problems
- Provide training on retrieving, accessing and finding information
- Provides research and knowledge management services
- Expert in subject areas and documentation in both printed and digital formats
- Produce and evaluate classification, subject keywords and thesaurus
- Expert databases searchers providing access to a range of information tools
- Filtering the information search results to submit the accurate information needed
- Educator role by teaching, training and influencing users to find, search, locate, criticize and use the information
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by reviewing professional publications participating in professional organizations, attending up to date field workshops and conferences
The bottom line “Next time your in a need of important information seek an information specialist “
Information Specialist from Kuwait 
I really like your list of our skills and professional capabilities! LIS is a very broad field, but specialises at many levels. As such it is a demanding discipline, and often not at all what people think. The amount of information available to humankind will only increase. You are right in your observation that LIS provides vital skills needed to handle the deluge.
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