Session Description:
Still relatively new at many educational institutions, the positions of Digital Scholarship Librarian and Data Services Librarian frequently require the appointees to find novel ways of expanding the repertoire of new services. Writing from the perspective of library specialists working at a mid-size urban university and using the data collected from a faculty digital scholarship needs assessment survey and follow-up interviews in the background, the paper will focus on the question of whether libraries are places that primarily incubate relationships or (new) services and how these two distinct roles complement and sometimes compete with each other.
