As modern technology stimulates increasingly savvy and complex electronic innovations, the role of health science librarians has continued to adapt and change year after year. Whereas in days of old health sciences librarians served as information keepers, today they serve more as partners, educators, creators and information mangers in a new sense. As Ralph A. Wolff once stated, "forging librarian/faculty partnerships will require new roles for librarians. events within and outside higher education are changing our fundamental conceptions of the library" (Dunn, 1). Nothing could be more true. As technology continues to change the way anyone and everyone does business and conducts daily affairs, so too has technology changed the fundamental working of the library and the roles of librarians. .

             Health science librarians are adopting various changes in response to technologically stimulated trends that include the need for web design and Internet knowledge. Dunn (1997) suggests that change must occur beginning with the center of higher education's "information enterprises" which for many is its libraries (p. 4). Trends include changing roles for library staff.

             Up until recently most information was stored on paper as paper documents, whether in the form of books, periodicals, magazines or other documents. The librarian's roles included managing such documents, preserving and distributing them (Dunn, 1997; Craver, 2002). Health science librarians roles are changing however as the way we select, organize and store or retrieve information changes. Rapid advancements in technology have enabled more direct and efficient service and assistance. Trends of the future include emphasizing selection, accessing and subsidizing of information resources, but also teaching students and faculty to identify , locate and evaluate information resources using new tools (Dunn, 1997; Craver, 2002). .

             Changing Roles For Health Sciences Librarians.