Archive for September, 2009
The Future of Peer Review?
It’s still a few weeks until Open Access Week, but starting now you can help reimagine what scholarly publishing might look like in the future. Media Studies scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick has made her new book manuscript available online for open peer review. While Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy will go [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on September 29th, 2009 under Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications.
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The Involved Academic Library Administrator
Becoming an academic library administrator brings many changes to one’s career. It typically means leaving behind old job responsibilities while adopting a new set of challenges. For many of us who’ve moved into administration from a public services position that typically means giving up the reference desk and classroom for planning, budgeting and other management [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 24th, 2009 under Administration/Leadership, Uncategorized.
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Not About Technology, Not About Teaching
Sometimes things I’m reading via RSS feeds evaporate as soon as I’ve read them. Others linger a while, and sometimes they strike up conversations with each other.
Not long ago, a columnist at AAC&U’s Leap project blog, liberal.eduation nation, complained about the increasing crowd of literacies clamoring for our attention and suggesting that apart from [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on September 22nd, 2009 under Information Literacy.
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A Dozen Newspaper Survival Tips For Academic Librarians
The newspaper industry has become a case study of sorts for what not to do to evolve in the Internet Age. Having waited too long to adapt to the Internet’s unique ability to broadcast real-time news, newspapers now find themselves struggling to survive, and in the past year several failed to do so. Given that [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 17th, 2009 under Worth Reading, information industries.
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For the Hacker in You
Last week was the official launch of Prof Hacker, a new website devoted to productivity, technology, and pedagogy in higher education. A link to this group blog first popped up in my Twitterstream a couple of months ago and I immediately became a regular reader. While the main audience for Prof Hacker is college and [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on September 13th, 2009 under Higher Education, Teaching, Technology Issues.
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