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Introduction: ATTITUDE, APPROACH AND ATTRACTION. This report examines strategies for recruiting the kind of staff libraries need for developing and for developing an innovative and open-minded attitude in existing staff. Attitude, approach and attraction are keywords that characterize this scene and will have a determining influence on the future of the profession.

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Introduction: What will happen to libraries when information is mainly produced, stored and distributed in digital format? Is the idea of the physical library so closely linked to books and print media that libraries (as places) will disappear? For decades, questions like these have topped the agenda in discussions about the library sector. Since the Internet breakthrough in the mid-1990?s, such questions have also aroused increasing interest in the general political deb...