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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