Challenges for Library and Information Science Professionals in Information and Knowledge Based Society

The rapid inventions and expansion in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are responsible for creating a revolution on account of their unimaginable networking capacity, thereby, leading to global competition. The 21^st century is a knowledge-based society where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital or natural resources. Such a society is endowed with the ability and capacity to generate and capture new knowledge and to access, absorb, share and use efficiently the information, knowledge, data, communications and best practices, may be highly personal or organizational, hard to formalize and therefore, difficult to communicate to others, which sometimes remains hidden within their human brains working in an organizations. Innovations of ICTs, versatility of Internet and the exponential growth of Internet users, are the important factors, resulting in the emergence of knowledge-based society. Information professionals should be fully prepared to work in the competitive environment which has become essential for their very survival. This paper attempt to highlights the Emergence of Information Society, Knowledge-based Society, Knowledge-Based Organizational, Activities of a Successful Knowledge Manager, Criteria for the Developments of an Information/Knowledge Society and also discussed the implication for information Professionals ’and Librarians