TY - JOUR AU - Maceli, Monica AU - Burke, John J PY - 2016/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Technology Skills in the Workplace: Information Professionals’ Current Use and Future Aspirations JF - Information Technology and Libraries JA - ITAL VL - 35 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.6017/ital.v35i4.9540 UR - https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/9540 SP - 35-62 AB - <p>Information technology serves as an essential tool for today's information professional, with a need for ongoing research attention to assess the technological directions of the field over time. This paper presents the results of a survey of the technologies used by library and information science (LIS) practitioners, with attention to the combinations of technologies employed and the technology skills that practitioners wish to learn.&nbsp; The most common technologies employed were: email, office productivity tools, web browsers, library catalog and database searching tools, and printers, with programming topping the list of most-desired technology skill to learn. Generally similar technology usage patterns were observed for early and later-career practitioners. Findings also suggested the relative rarity of emerging technologies, such as the makerspace, in current practice.</p> ER -