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because of that integrating the library with other information
workspaces. The library and the traditional librarian see their work
change rapidly.
2) The ‘user’ is becoming more individual by web search engines.

Intervention by a professional helping the user to find the right
information is often becoming superfluous. 3) Acknowledgement by the
organization management. Not being noticeable and acknowledged in

the business environment is something that is changing. The IP should
not be separated by the management, but involved with taking business
decisions. The importance of the IP has not always been recognized and
IPs inside organization experience being underestimated when it comes

to a contribution for the management. This seems to change since the
awareness of the importance of information is growing. From this point
we would like to distinguish four major competencies, which are

extracted out of earlier studies. Because one must take into consideration
that the widespread employability of the IP does not make it easy to
define competencies (Boom, 2002), we have chosen to distinguish the

major competencies: 1) managing information organizations; 2)
Managing Information Services; 3) Applying Information Tools and
Technologies 4) Managing Information Resources; (Abel, 2003). The

last major competence we discuss more detailed because this is we
consider ‘managing information resources’ to be most pressured by the
ES Technology.
Managing Information Organizations

An information organization may be in any environment from
corporate, education, public, government, to non-profit. These
organizations have intangible offerings and is constantly changing

markets. The IP aligns the organization with the strategic directions of
the parent organizations and assesses the value of the organization,
including information services, products and policies towards senior
management (Abel, 2003). He/ she builds an effective information

service team and is specially focused on marketing and competitive
information. This IP is continuously gathering, interpreting and
analyzing information, and distributing knowledge throughout the

organization and towards the management to support in business
decisions (Rodenberg, 2002). The IP is the person who works on a more
abstract level and clearly demonstrates the value-add of the information

organization to clients and key stakeholders, he/ she can also be called a