Abstract
Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users. This article looks at four key areas: coping with open science/open access initiatives; increasing demands from researchers for support doing systematic reviews; understanding user experiences in Swedish health science libraries; and the consequences of expanding roles for recruitment and continuing professional development. With regard to changing roles, there is an increasing shift from the generalist towards the expert role. The authors raise the issue as to how to prepare those new to the profession to the changing environment of health science libraries.
Highlights
Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users
Most medical university libraries belong to multi-faculty universities; only the Karolinska University Library is a single faculty medical university
In Sweden, there is no library association dedicated to the health information field, but the Swedish Library Association organises all librarians and library types (Biblioteksf€oreningen, 2018)
Summary
Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users. Health science libraries in Sweden: new directions, expanding roles Health science librarians in Sweden are employed either by the county councils in hospitals or by universities.
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