Dear Colleagues
FYI This comes off a blog called Digital Librarian Initiative @ Emory.
(from the webpage:
The Digital Librarian Initiative started in December 2008. Its mission is to enable librarians across the Emory Library system to share what they learn about trends in digital scholarship and digital librarianship within and beyond Emory.
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This site was set up January 2010 to replace Google Groups as a platform for posting, discussing, searching, tagging and archiving information for the Emory University Libraries' Digital Librarian Initiative and the Area Studies Team of the Service Division within the Woodruff Library. Much of the content is visible only to respective members of those and other groups who join the site. At members' discretion, some content is also shared with the greater librarian community.)
And here's the link to what they have shared with the greater librarian community:
Summary: DLI has been asked to submit a summary review of our thoughts on emerging trends in the roles of the subject liaison. The goal is to inform service division team leaders before their report out April 12 on this subject. From our review of published literature (see recommended readings below) and from our own experience, we endorse the now common assumption that the emerging future of the subject librarian will be, like the present, multifaceted and dynamic both within and among subject librarian positions. In addition, each position will be contingent in configuration depending on a series of changing variables and vectors such as disciplinary culture, digital technologies, evolving research practices, scholarly publishing, intellectual property rights, and economic and government support of higher education. So we speak of futures in the plural, offering a few possible scenarios in different formats (narrative, graphic, tabular), and concluding with proposals to take advantage of the new opportunities to leverage existing skills and develop new ones.
Regards
Ingrid Thomson
Ingrid Thomson
Librarian: Humanities Information Division
Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
University of Cape Town Libraries
Private Bag
7700 RONDEBOSCH
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 21 650 3703 Fax: +27 21 689 7569
Email: Ingrid.Thomson@uct.ac.za
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