Shares the unique perspectives of librarians on the front lines of technological transformation. These essays provide details of both the practical applications of surviving, adapting, and growing when confronted with changing roles and responsibilities, as well as a big picture perspective of the changing roles impacting libraries and librarians.

Introduction (Tom Diamond) 1Part I. Changing Roles: The Big PictureOpenness, Scholarly Communication and Evolving Expectations for Academic Librarians (Mary Jo Orzech) 7Library Positions in a Period of Change (Emily Guhde and Brian W. Keith) 22Inside the Laboratory: Open Science and the Skills of Research Librarians (Jorge Revez) 42Part II. Emergence of the Digital Librarian and Digital HumanitiesWhy Digital Matters: Building a Digital Humanities Center at the University of Utah (Rebekah Cummings) 57Libraries as the Vanguard of Virtual and Augmented Reality for Academic Instruction (Will Buck and Janine Pino) 71From Liaison to Coordinator: How Digital Humanities Influenced a Role Change and Restructure (Andrea Malone) 84Part III. Changing Roles of Public and Technical Service PositionsFrom Nodes to Networks: Redefining the Role of Library IT Somaly Kim Wu, Beth Caruso and Bob R. Price 97Documents ­De-Emphasized? The Shifting Roles of Government Information Professionals (Kenya Flash and Dominique Hallett) 108Changing Roles for Web Services Librarians: Supporting Library Staff as User Experience Practitioners (Jess Waggoner and Susan Chesley Perry) 120Cataloging and Metadata: Tools, Trends and the Changing Role of the Librarian (Harriet E. Wintermute, Melissa K. Moll, Mike Monaco and Euemduan C. Osmera) 131Learning, Growing, Evolving: Changing Discovery Services at the University at Albany Libraries (Elaine M. Lasda and Rebecca A. Nous) 141From Storytime to Data Analytics: The Rise of Digital Technology and Its Role in My Librarianship (Shanna Hollich) 157Exploring Scholarly Communication (Virginia Cononie) 169About the Contributors 183Index 187