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The evolving nature of academic research practices in Humanities and Social Science is placing new demands on library services. Shifting attitudes toward assessment and data mining, reliance on cross-disciplinary based methodologies and non-traditional research and learning inquiries are increasingly contributing to a steady incorporation of distinctive and unique materials into the core of the research process. Being at the center of the ongoing shift, they have deep implications for the academic library outreach and research services. Therefore, the library outreach and research services are increasingly transcending the existing boundaries. They evolve beyond the traditionally centered "reference and liaison service model” toward a new "collections and content stewardship support model”, based on a growing faculty-library staff partnership. In close collaboration with scholars, collection development librarians identify new areas of research need, reaffirm areas of continuing significance to teaching and research, and in result, ensure stewardship responsibilities for distinctive and unique primary sources. In the future, new library collaboration initiatives with faculty and scholars will be necessary to envision and properly curate unique and distinctive materials in accordance with their future pertinence in research. By analyzing the evolving roles of collection development librarians, the presentation will provide some answers on how with the right technological and organizational infrastructure to support efforts, a library service centered on the "collections and content stewardship” blurring the traditional divide between general and special collections, will increasingly take an important role in research institutions. We will examine how this research service model, will be particularly well poised to effectively respond to ongoing changes in modes of scholarship, teaching, and learning, and will engage library staff directly in knowledge creation.