ARL Library Liaison Institute: What we learned about needs and opportunities for reskilling

In June 2015, the University of Toronto, Cornell University, and Columbia University partnered with the Association of Research Libraries on a library liaison institute to bring together a group of 50 liaison librarians. The institute collected information about what liaisons value in their work, and how they see their jobs changing as a result of new research practices. Among other things Bakkalbasi et al presents some of the needs for training and reskilling that both participants and organizers identified during the Institute, drawing attention to the increasing need to support scholarly communication and liaisons level of engagement with this topic.