The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is initiating a new series of invited reports addressing emerging roles for research libraries. The New Roles for New Times series will begin publication with five reports in 2010. The reports will identify and outline emerging roles for research library staff and present research on early experiences among ARL member libraries in developing the roles and delivering services.
Reports being developed for the New Roles for New Times Reports series are: Transforming liaison librarian work by Karen Williams, University of Minnesota; Repository services by Sarah Shreeves, University of Illinois; Digital curation and preservation by Tyler Walters, Georgia Tech; Library roles in promoting graduate students’ development of research skills and understanding of scholarly communication by Lucinda Covert-Vail and Scott Collard, NYU; and New roles in providing print collections: remote storage and collection consolidation by Emily Stambaugh, California Digital Library.
These reports will highlight existing work, report authors’ findings, and offer analysis of trends, best practices, and key issues. Each of these will describe the emerging role, articulating the audience affected by the new role and the benefits various constituencies experience as a result of the new role. Reports will be freely available as PDF files on ARL’s New Roles for New Times website at http://www.arl.org/rtl/nrnt/.
Complementing the report set, ARL will work with the New Roles authors to organise corresponding webcasts on each topic. Webcasts will be scheduled to follow a report’s release.
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