STM Annual Meeting, October 2006

1. The Future Role
of Librarians….
T. Scott Plutchak
UAB Lister Hill Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
October 3, 2006

6. What is the essential role of libraries?
What is the essential role of
librarians
?

7. Building and managing collections
Building and managing libraries

8. Managing the knowledge base

13. The evolving journal article
Links to datasets
Multimedia
Interactivity

18. Librarian roles
Stewards of the institution’s information resources
Guides through the information maze
Evolving partnerships with faculty & students

19. Roles of Publishers
Registration
Dissemination
Peer Review
Archival Record
Navigation

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21. http://tscott.typepad.com
tscott@uab.edu