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How, when, why and with whom do libraries (law and otherwise) collaborate successfully? What can libraries adapt from outside of the library world to further their collaboration efforts?
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Inna K(o)uper: CLIR blog has recently posted a piece on re-skilling for librarians by Christa Williford, focusing on digital humanities librarianship. What kind of skills do librarians need in order to be relevant in contemporary research environments? The list can be pretty long, moreover, there might be multiple lists. Another list was proposed in a report that Christa mentioned, “Re-skilling for research” by Research Libraries UK (RLUK). The report contains results of a series of studies that aimed to map the needs of researchers onto tasks to be undertaken by subject librarians. The report is long, but the message is the same over and over: librarians’ roles and skills are quite limited and traditional; they do not match the needs. Subject librarians are not involved at the early stages of research that involve conceptualization and planning. Most of the services are still offered in the areas of literature search and information management (how to store and organize everything). Services that are related to data collection, management, analysis and preservation are in their infancy at best. Via Karen du Toit
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A new (to me) verb: re-skilling. Need to mull this one over. Not sure if it's perfect or ridiculous. 
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January 17, 5:21 AM
Thoughts on the re-skilling of librarians! Interesting! Delete the scoop?
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This highly informative infographic put together by Masters in Education and ObizMedia, is analyzing the role of a library and a librarian in our life.
More and more of today's librarians are high-tech information sleuths, and clever navigators, helping library users plumb the oceans of information.
This infographic clearly demonstrates what are librarians worth around the world: http://ebookfriendly.com/2012/11/16/library-librarians-infographic/ Via Fe Angela M. Verzosa, Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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If a university's main purpose was the search for truth, said Kealey (referring to the Robbins report, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year), then only charitable institutions independent of state funding and answerable solely to their own trustees could fulfil it.