Research libraries and librarians

Hi all
Linda beat me to the post - I have also just found the ASERL competencies for research librarians. I have looked at 4 documents - these ASERL competencies; the Texas docuemnt given to us by Renfrew Chrisite as well as his presentation and Karin's presentation on what researchers want. I collated the information and drew up a 2 page list of what this research animal looks like. It seems there are 3 broad areas of skills / knowledge and attributes: knowledge about the research process and information resources; broader endeavours of the institution and information society and finally personal attributes. Its quite a powerful and challenging list. The documents also usefully sumamrise challenges to and nature of the research library - I havent quite collated that yet. These 4 documents together really provide a useful and concrete base from which to plan an upgrade of ourselves.

Rose