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Item The virtues of a committed dilettante: Embracing nonexpert expertise(Association of College & Research Libraries, http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/11/646.full, 2011-12) Lacy, MeaganMany librarians are assigned liaison roles outside of their subject expertise. How can librarians still engage faculty and students in these disciplines? This article suggests strategies for how non-specialist librarians can serve their departments and promote the value of libraries.Item Where There's a Will, There's a Way?: Survey of Academic Librarian Attitudes about Open Access(2008-11-17T16:06:48Z) Palmer, Kristi L.; Dill, Emily; Christie, CharleneAcademic libraries are becoming increasingly involved in scholarly communication through work with institutional repositories and other open access models. While academic librarians are being encouraged to promote these new models, their opinions about open access have not been documented. This article reports on the results of a national survey conducted in the summer of 2006 of academic librarians’ attitudes toward open access principles and related behaviors. While attitude responses were largely positive, there were differences in levels of support related to respondents’ job descriptions and funding of open access activities. Surveyed librarians appear to be more comfortable with tasks that translate traditionally held responsibilities, such as educating others, to the open access environment. Most significant is the discrepancy between stated support of library involvement in open access initiatives and significantly lacking action toward this end. The results offer insight into how open access proponents may better focus their advocacy efforts. IS PREPRINT OF: Palmer, Kristi L., Emily Dill, and Charlene Christie. "Where There's a Will There's a Way," in College & Research Libraries. 70(4): 315‐330. DATASET AVAILABLE AT: http://hdl.handle.net/11243/7