11 skills today's librarians need for tomorrow

I came across this interesting article (click on the image above) from the American Library Journal listing 11 new skills that librarians need. After reading them, I agree with the last sentence in the blurb above: "Not complete departures, rather they build on trends already in evidence."

Over the next few months, I will  be looking at each of these 11 skills individually, to see how far we have come and how much further we need to go. I've listed them below and I'll start tackling them next week...