Abstract
Shaping opportunities for the new health sciences librarian
Highlights
These librarians may or may not reside in the health sciences library. They may be partially or fully funded by the academic department or research or clinical team they serve. Whatever these new roles are called, they share the following characteristics: & Their clients tend to value health sciences librarians’ expertise and not their library as a place or the collections held by that library. & The information accessed by health sciences librarians is not limited to that found in traditional library collections and can include data sets, digital tools, and social media outlets
Librarians’ new roles are moving from service that is ‘‘just in case’’ or ‘‘just in time’’ to service that is ‘‘just for you’’ [1]. & Librarians have a role to play in the entire scholarly communications process, not merely at the end of the research data cycle as has been traditionally the case
What might some of these roles look like? Certainly the articles in this issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) describe some of them
Summary
These librarians may or may not reside in the health sciences library. & The information accessed by health sciences librarians is not limited to that found in traditional library collections and can include data sets, digital tools, and social media outlets. & Librarians have a role to play in the entire scholarly communications process, not merely at the end of the research data cycle as has been traditionally the case.
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