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This semester I’ve had a few opportunities to think and talk through my librarian and pre-librarian work, and especially my commitment to open scholarship and teaching. First I was delighted to...

https://acrlog.org/2022/11/13/committing-and-recommitting-to-open/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=committing-and-recommitting-to-open

It’s a piece of “advice” we’ve all received at some point or another in our academic librarian career. We may be on the tenure-track, in a continuing appointment position, promotion eligi...

https://acrlog.org/2019/07/21/you-should-really-think-about-publishing-something/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-should-really-think-about-publishing-something

As I began crafting this sixth (and final1) piece as a First Year Librarian Blogger for ACRLog, I realized I’d come full circle thematically over the course of my posts, closing with a more fo...

https://acrlog.org/2017/03/29/leading-by-example-the-idealis-highlights-expert-curated-open-access-lis-research/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leading-by-example-the-idealis-highlights-expert-curated-open-access-lis-research

I’m a salesman, and the hardest part of my job is encouraging people to buy. As a Digital Scholarship librarian I manage the Institutional Repository (IR) and peddle Open Access (OA) to stud...

https://acrlog.org/2016/11/12/is-open-access-enough-strategies-for-healthier-oa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-open-access-enough-strategies-for-healthier-oa

The following is the second in a series of posts on the subscription-based model and open access alternatives, and how each get stuck from their respective ends of the scholarly information suppl...

https://acrlog.org/2016/10/07/the-rock-and-the-hard-place-part-2-opening-up-license-negotiation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rock-and-the-hard-place-part-2-opening-up-license-negotiation

The following is the first in a series of posts on the subscription-based model and open access alternatives, and how each get stuck from their respective ends of the scholarly information supply...

https://acrlog.org/2016/09/07/the-rock-and-the-hard-place-part-1-renewal-season-no-big-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rock-and-the-hard-place-part-1-renewal-season-no-big-deal

As Jennifer Howard of the Chronicle reports, collaboration between libraries and presses was a theme at the most recent meeting of the Association of American University Presses, but there seems ...

https://acrlog.org/2009/06/22/sustaining-scholarship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sustaining-scholarship

LJ Academic Newswire reports that U Penn is the latest to offer scan-on-demand with quality print output. Emory uses the same Kirtas machine to offer a curated collection of books relevant to Emo...

https://acrlog.org/2009/02/25/local-food-for-thought-movement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=local-food-for-thought-movement

It’s always good to start the day with a good laugh. Joseph Storch has an idea (behind the Chronicle’s pay wall) to deal with textbook piracy – have all publishers put their books on a comm...

https://acrlog.org/2009/02/03/the-paperless-dorm-room/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-paperless-dorm-room

Academic librarians are generally not competitive types. If we were we’d probably have gone to business school. But that competitive spirit may show up when it comes to presentations and public...

https://acrlog.org/2008/09/25/getting-your-ideas-out-there-first/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=getting-your-ideas-out-there-first