Librarians may now expect to serve as network administrators, enabling a support structure of information and access to this structure by patrons (Dunn, 1997; Craver 2002). Librarian's roles may now include teaching and learning activities such as teaching web use (Dunn, 1997). Librarians are evolving "from an information organizer and provider to an active participant in the reach process" (Dunn, 7). Their role is to teach users "how to structure research questions, access information and select resources" in multiple formats (Dunn, 8). Librarian's roles may also serve as leaders, "facilitating the introduction of new technologies for learning and research" (Dunn, 8). .

             More and more health sciences librarians face new opportunities and can now define how information and instruction "are communicated to students and faculty" (Dunn, 10). Librarians also may serve as counselors teaching people how to maneuver in an electronic environment, and serve as advisors instead of teachers rather than 'custodians of collections" (Dunn, 10). .

             Rather than collect, organize and store information librarians of the future will face new challenges that may include partnering with specialists to deliver information instruction, designing instructional or educational programs that enable information access, teaching users how to access information, creating "information access tools", preserving information in multiple formats and serving as facilitators who introduce information technology (Dunn, 11).

             Librarians roles specific to health sciences research may include enabling health systems organizations to better utilize and understand health services, design tools for managing and researching information and working in collaboration with other faculty and staff to understand or discover new information sources and methodologies (NLM, 1999). Health Services librarian's roles no include improved ability to respond to question but also support and conduct research, and may even include participation on "health services research teams" (NLM, 1999).