Resources - Don't end up on the TIP. Sue Myburgh warns that traditional information professionals (TIPs) have become an endangered species. Tracey Caldwell looks at her theories and predictions.(The New Information Professional: How to thrive in the Information Age doing what you)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

This book has an intriguing subtitle: "How to thrive in the Information Age doing what you love." It also suggests that times are changing, and extinction looms unless you adapt.

Author Sue Myburgh begins The New Information Professional by constructing a definition of the old-fashioned, extinction-threatened traditional information professional, or TIP for short.

TIPs are said to continue to focus on document management while a new information society evolves around them. And they face competition from people in the many new roles in information work.

Then Myburgh embarks on a discussion of what it is to be an information professional, and where they are found, discussing the role in the context of a number of theoretical and conceptual bases.

She looks at whether the information profession is an art or a science, modernist or post-modernist.

The one certainty that Myburgh finds in the context of the information professional's work is that it is changing. Then she goes on ...