The Human Implications of Technology's Impact on the Content of Library Science Journals

TECHNOI,O(:Y IS CHANGING THE WORK LIFE of'librarians and support staff; they increasingly depend on it to add value to the services and products they provide. Pressures to keep up with new practices and to remain effective in presentjob responsibilities mean that they must read more about technology and its applications. Consequently, the content of library science journals includes more about technology year by year. This journal content in turn, by sharing information about change, may affect the orgunizafional structuru in which librarians and staff work, their expectations for using technolocgy, and their need for libraries to become, to a greater degree, learning organizations. The article deals with print journals, still the major source of information about libraries, and does not cover electronic journals.