From: Ramune Kubilius <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:56:48 +0000

Hello,

With or without toll access publications, there's so much to do and
potentially do in libraries and by librarians (and there are increasing
number of folks working in libraries who don't come from the traditional
librarian educational pathways)...Here are just a few, both library as
space and as a center of services. Some libraries are already doing some of
these:

* Library as publisher (OA journals, OA textbooks)

* Library as coordinator, manager, and host of digital repositories
(institutional publications, individual authors' publications, digitization
center of "not digitally born" materials, photographs, institutional
publications, data, digital collections...)

* Librarians as researchers, partners, liaisons, and educators:
anthropologists, impact & evaluation of institution's scholarly output,
data scientists, and other services, consultations, education, embedded on
teams as informationists (clinical-patient care team members and research
labs), etc., teaching (embedded in curriculum or stand-alone
seminars/courses on writing, searching, using licensed tools for gene
pathway analysis to health cost analysis, reference management).

* Special roles: NIH Public Access Policy Compliance Monitor Role (PACR),
thesis/dissertation (writing) advisor, etc.

* Library as place (to study, as home of spaces for teaching, training, and
meeting, as host and participant in a writing center, provision of editing
services /for students and faculty/, home of computer clusters for use of
expensive licensed resources that are cost prohibitive to license for
remote access; 3 D printers). Library spaces that function as
"tour/reception" destination on campus (art work, museum, special
collections), etc.

Ramune Kubilius
Galter Health Sciences Library
Northwestern University

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