id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-17113 Ducas, Ada; Michaud-Oystryk, Nicole; Speare, Marie Reinventing Ourselves: New and Emerging Roles of Academic Librarians in Canadian Research-Intensive Universities 2020-01-08 23 .pdf application/pdf 11221 417 33 Traditional vs. New Roles Given that most librarians are not performing new or traditional roles exclusively, a major interest of the study was to determine how many librarians are performing new roles (that is, Research Support, Teaching and Learning, Digital Scholarship, User Experience, or Scholarly Communi- cation); how many are performing traditional roles (such as reference, instruction, cataloguing, collection development, or administration); and how many are carrying out hybrid roles that FIGURE 2 How were your skills and knowledge acquired? 56 College & Research Libraries January 2020 FIGURE 3 Training Needs Reinventing Ourselves 57 are a combination of new and traditional functions. It’s time for us to embrace our new role. • New roles and traditional roles likely need to co-exist and develop together. cache/crl-17113.pdf txt/crl-17113.txt