Manpower Requirements in the Emerging Information Society of the Baltic States

The presented work is based mainly on the results of “Survey of Information Specialists Labour Market in the Baltic States”, a research project which was undertaken by the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University and the Department of Information Studies at the Tallinn University of Educational Sciences. The objective of the research was to establish the main tendencies in the labour market for the information specialists that will enable to plan the studies and number of students for the institutions of higher education. According to this objective three main sectors of employment are selected: a) emerging sector of information service; b) established sector of libraries; c) information management in different sectors of economics. The author introduces methods of research and main findings.