9 Andrew Dillon, “Accelerating Learning and Discovery: Refining the Role of Academic Librarians,” in No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21 st Century (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008): 53. 10 NINES is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the 19th century and the digital research environment of the 21st. For more information, see the NINES website: http://www.nines.org/about/what_is.html. 11 The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium that collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. For more details, see the TEI website: http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml. 12 “ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012,” 17. © 2010 Brenda L. Johnson 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: Brenda L. Johnson. “Transforming Roles for Academic Librarians: Leading and Participating in New Partnerships.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 272 (October 2010): 7–15. http://publications.arl.org/rli272/. RLI 272 15 Transforming Roles for Academic Librarians: Leading and Participating in New Partnerships ( C O N T I N U E D ) OCTOBER 2010 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC