TY - CHAP AU - AU - Schmidt, Birgit AU - Calarco, Pascal AU - Kuchma, Iryna AU - Shearer, Kathleen T1 - Time to Adopt: Librarians’ New Skills and Competency Profiles PY - 2016 JO - Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas N2 - 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. DO - doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-1 LA - en ER -