Andrew Cox|Sheila Corrall
Evolving academic library specialties
University of Sheffield|University of Pittsburgh
purpose review examine shaping librarianship academic context literature career specialties bbotts 1988 system professions providing analytic framework specialties investigated systems librarian electronic resource librarian digital librarian institutional repository manager clinical librarian informationist digital curatorresearch data manager teaching librarianinformation literacy educator information knowledge manager piecemeal literature based job advertisements surveys individual case studies consolidated offer novel perspective evolution profession resilience professions core jurisdiction apparent despite pressures erode forays teaching recently open access data management understood responses pressure attractions also risks embedded roles overextended claims become apparent comparing past prospective specialties