the ACRL 2009 conference entitled “Subject Librarian 2.0,” Jim Neal, University Librarian at Columbia University, outlined several new roles for libraries including intermediaries and aggregators, publishers, entrepreneurs, policy advocates, and research and development organizations. The other authors in this issue present their institutional experiences and discuss the new roles that their librarians have undertaken. 1 Dempsey, Lorcan, “Reconfiguring the Library Systems Environment,” portal: Libraries and the Academy 8, no. 2 (2008): 111-120, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/ v008/8.2dempsey.html. 2 Excerpt from “The University of Minnesota Libraries: Changing the Paradigm,” the 2009 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award Nomination, https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/wupl/ Staff.HomePage/2009%20ACRL%20Award%20Application.pdf. © 2009 Karen Williams This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: Karen Williams. “A Framework for Articulating New Library Roles.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 265 (August 2009): 3–8. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/ rli265.shtml. RLI 265 8 A Framework for Articulating New Library Roles ( C O N T I N U E D ) AUGUST 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC
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