As a librarian working in a research unit, it is exciting to see the very issues which I have recognised, and been trying to deal with over the past few years, highlighted as concerns in a national report http://bit.ly/zWI9MR . For example, see my case study http://thearchivarian.blogspot.com/2011/07/records-management-of-research-archives.html .
However, I am not a subject librarian, and in conversations and dealings with the subject librarians at my university library, it is clear that there is currently little overlap in our work and roles. It does seem that teaching needs in university libraires have come to take precedence over research needs. But most subject librarians are already overloaded, so new tasks could only be taken on at the expense of dropping others. Maybe the way forward is more specialism within academic liaison librarians rather than one role fits all?
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