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Just Saying No to For-Profit Academic Publishers

The scholarly communication system is full of tension these days: libraries stretch budgets to meet the hugely increasing cost of journal subscriptions, academic publishers insist upon the added value of their product opposed to open-access models, and researchers feel pressure to publish in more prestigious, high-impact (and often more costly) journals to meet tenure and …

Posted 8 months ago by Leanora Lange

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What's up mates, its fantastic paragraph about cultureand completely explained, keep it up all the time…

Library Literacy in Higher Education: A METRO Workshop

On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, I attended a workshop at the headquarters of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) at 57 East 11th Street. The event, subtitled "Novel Approaches to Assessment and Collaborative Instruction," presented the experience and findings of librarians at two New York …

Posted 14 months ago by Allen Foresta

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Hi Anne, I'm totally in awe of the fact that you were thinking about these issues during your five mile run (not to mention the fact that you were having a five mile run in the first place)…

Manifestos on Digital Humanities

While researching for one of my library science classes, I recently came across two different manifestos for the Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities has been an increasingly hot topic over the last five years or so, thanks to an increasing amount of humanities scholars blogging on scholarly topics (some examples are Planned Obsolescence …

Posted 19 months ago by Leanora Lange

Measuring the Value of a College Library

This article at the Chronicle of Higher Education takes up the important question of how to determine and measure the value of college libraries. Academic departments have been increasingly asked in recent years to justify themselves by quantitative measures, like how much grant money they take in or how many articles their professors produce. This …

Posted 26 months ago by pamela

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Good questions…

Publishing with Libraries

See my reflections on this conference over on my personal Pressible site... where you can always see my more political views. :)

Reposted from art as work. Written by Brian Hughes.

Last week I attended the annual Association of College & Research Libraries conference in Philadelphia. Julia and I presented a poster on Pressible, and how our library is using it to expand the publishing possibilities available to our community. I attended panel and paper sessions on "embedded librarianship, "building lean and mean web project teams," …

Posted 26 months ago by Brian Hughes

Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing

Title: Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing Author: Robert Boice Publisher: Stillwater, Okla., U.S.A. : New Forums Press, c1990 Call Number: PN151 .B65 1990 From the Publisher: "Here is a proven book to help scholars master writing as a productive, enjoyable, and successful experience -- Author, Robert Boice, prepared this self-help manual …

Posted 27 months ago by pamela

I <3 School

It took me a long time to figure out what to write about on Pressible. The natural choice would be library things but my agonizingly long run in library school has made me sick almost to death of library literature. I don’t feel like I have the kind of education to equip me to write …

Posted 32 months ago by Laura Costello

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Hi, I run a site dedicated to Divinity and finding the best school offering a Masters degree in Divinity…

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