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The traditional skillset of the librarian is expanding. In her article, “Identifying and exploring future trends impacting on academic libraries,” published in New Review of Academic Librarianship, Roisin Gwyer considered what the future could hold for academic libraries. From this analysis, she has identified 10 areas for skills development for library leaders.
Following 2016’s white paper Creative, Evolving, Relevant: Communicating the Library’s Value, which focused on the ways librarians communicate the library’s value to students and faculty members, Surveys, Statistics, Narrative: Communicating Library Value to Administrators explores the ways librarians communicate value to decision-makers such as university administrators.


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