%0 Book Section %A Birgit Schmidt and Pascal Calarco and Iryna Kuchma and Kathleen Shearer %T Time to Adopt: Librarians’ New Skills and Competency Profiles %D 2016 %J Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas %X On the one hand, libraries are at the forefront of the digital transformation and digital information infrastructures, on the other, they manage and curate cultural heritage collections. This brings about new ways of engagement with information and knowledge and the need to rethink skills and competency profiles – which enable librarians to support e-research all along the research cycle. This paper presents findings of the joint Task Force on Librarians\’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication. %R doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-1 %G en