The Association of Research Libraries (one of CNI's sponsor organizations)  has just made available the report of its task force on library support for E-science, titled "Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research LIbraries". The report is at

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/ARL_EScience_final.pdf

and you can find additional background on the task force and ARL's E-science work on pages linked from

http://www.arl.org/rtl/escience/index.shtml

I think that this report represents an important milestone in the movement by the research library community to address the opportunities and challenges raised by the emergence of e-science.

Disclosure: I served as a member of the task force.

Clifford Lynch

Director, CNI