Posts by msmale
Participatory Learning, Active Application: Reflections on the ACRL Conference
With the month winding down folks are getting back into the swing of things following this year’s ACRL Conference in Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago. Several of us ACRLoggers were in attendance — we took the opportunity to meet face to face and chat, and in those conversations the idea of a collaborative post-conference [...]
Posted: 25 April, 2013 in Conference Blogging, Events, First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Tags: ACRL annual conference, panel, presentation, takeaways, THATCamp, workshop
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Evaluating Information: The Light Side of Open Access
Early last week I opened the New York Times and was surprised to see a front-page article about sham academic publishers and conferences. The article discussed something we in the library world have been aware of for some time: open access publishers with low (or no) standards for peer review and acceptance, sometimes even with [...]
Posted: 14 April, 2013 in Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: authors' fees, conferences, evaluation, predatory publishers, scholarly journals
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The Beginning of the Middle
Today is the 5th anniversary of my job as an information literacy librarian, my first full-time library position. Five years: while it’s not all that long — certainly many of my colleagues have much more experience than I do — it seems momentous in some ways. In my previous two careers I had serious reservations [...]
Posted: 18 March, 2013 in Just Thinking, library careers.
Tags: careers, reflection, strategic planning, work experience
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Scholarly Publishing: Still Not Making Sense
A little bit more than a year ago ACRLog covered the Research Works Act, legislation that intended to stop federal funding agencies from requiring grantees to make the results of their research freely available to all. Luckily, RWA was quickly withdrawn, thanks to pressure from academics and librarians worldwide. However, the scholarly publishing universe continues [...]
Posted: 9 February, 2013 in Scholarly Communications.
Tags: academic freedom, Canadian academic libraries, lawsuits, scholarly publishing
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The Library is Open
For the past couple of years I’ve been wearing two main hats at my job: one as an information literacy librarian and the other as a lead on a collegewide pedagogical grant. I’ve had several opportunities to connect the two, which I think strengthens both my library and my grant work. This year the connection [...]
Posted: 30 January, 2013 in Faculty, Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: Blackboard, courseware, learning management system, library website, LMS, outreach, Wordpress
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