• Contact CNI
  • Site map
  • View cni.org’s profile on Facebook
  • View cni_org’s profile on Twitter
  • View cnivideo’s profile on YouTube
  • View cni’s profile on Vimeo

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

  • About CNI
    • Membership
    • CNI Collaborations
    • Staff
    • Steering Committee
    • CNI Awards
    • History
    • CNI News
  • Program Plan
    • Current Program Plan
    • Program Plan Archive
  • Topics
  • Meetings & Events
    • CNI Membership Meetings
    • CNI Workshops
    • Events Co-Sponsored by CNI
    • Event Calendar
  • Resources
    • Publications by CNI Staff
    • Program Plan
    • Videos & Podcasts
    • Follow CNI
    • Historical Resources

Update on the ARL/CARL/COAR/LIBER Joint Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication

Home / Topics / Assessment / Update on the ARL/CARL/COAR/LIBER Joint Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication

March 26, 2014

Pascal V. Calarco
Associate University Librarian, Research and Digital Discovery Services
University of Waterloo

Judy Ruttenberg
Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries
Association of Research Libraries

 

In August 2013, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) came together to work jointly on defining professional librarians’ competency needs to support e-research and scholarly communication. The aim of the task force is to outline the service areas, roles and competencies needed by libraries and librarians in this evolving environment. The first step will be to identify the various avenues of service for libraries within the context of e-research, repository management, and scholarly communication, amongst others. These services and roles will then be mapped to the competencies required by librarians and library professionals. The task force will also make note of the array of organizational models evolving to support new services. The task force will produce a toolkit that will help to build capacity in libraries for supporting new roles in the area of scholarly communication and e-research. The toolkit will allow library managers to identify skill gaps in their institution, form the basis of job descriptions, enable professionals to carry out self-assessments, and act as a foundation for the development of training programs for librarians and library professionals. In addition, the toolkit will provide an outline of new organizational models that are evolving in this dynamic environment. The work accomplished to date in 2-4 profile service areas will be presented, including scholarly communication and research data management.

 

Presentation

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communication
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Trackbacks

  1. Libraries Support Data-Sharing Across the Research Lifecycle says:
    February 1, 2016 at 8:01 AM

    […] up to speed. A coalition of the major library organizations are also in the process of creating a set of competencies that can be used to audit and improve existing services. The 2013 Association of Research Libraries […]

Last updated:  Monday, April 14th, 2014

 

Contact Us

21 Dupont Circle
Suite 800
Washington, DC, 20036
202.296.5098

Contact us
Copyright © 2021 CNI

  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Keeping up with CNI

CNI-ANNOUNCE is a low-volume electronic forum used for information about the activities and programs of CNI, and events and documents of interest to the CNI community.
Sign up

Follow CNI

  • View cni.org’s profile on Facebook
  • View cni_org’s profile on Twitter
  • View cnivideo’s profile on YouTube
  • View cni’s profile on Vimeo

A joint project