The impact of technological obsolescence on the knowledge contribution in the field of information sciences, libraries and archives ... an analytical vision

It is no longer hidden from anyone that successive changes and transitions from the traditional to the digital environment in information facilities have given rise to new names, including but not limited to: information engineering and knowledge management and some of these names related to the same profession as knowledge workers Knowledge manager ... etc. This led to the latest imbalance between the functions of academic institutions and the labor market, in terms of supply and demand in the quality and size of the outputs of those institutions. On the other hand, the challenge and risks emerged, as they were imposed on academic institutions at all levels (first university level and postgraduate studies), and the need to review their programs, plans and goals to suit the era of information and knowledge management, whether with regard to study materials and their content or the competencies, skills and abilities that students must be provided with. Therefore, the vision of the research paper revolves around extrapolating the importance of information professions in the information society, which depends on the knowledge economy and the accompanying necessity to develop the nature of the jobs of workers in information facilities, and at this juncture appear the problem of technology obsolescence (the renewable technological nature) and related challenges to accompany the development of the structure Institutional and societal levels, and its impact on the failure of the contribution of knowledge professionally and academically