Caroline Ball, who I interviewed on the ATG Podcast, has had a career of engagement with users: from working in a public library, to a trustee of Wikipedia UK, and her present role, as Community Engagement Lead with the Open …
Peter Brantley (talking recently in an interview on the ATG Podcast) has been involved with the interaction between publishing and technology ever since studying sociology at university. For his dissertation, he looked at how established companies adapt to rapidly changing product …
What does a library publishing program actually do—and why are more universities creating them? In a conversation with Jonathan Grunert, scholarly publishing librarian at the University at Buffalo, he describes how library publishing supports open access, helps researchers share their work, …
Daniel Dollar’s career has covered a wide range of information management and retrieval. After studying politics, he worked with the Congressional Research Service, which fired his enthusiasm for libraries. After a Master’s in Library Science, Daniel started at Yale working in …
Small libraries face the same challenges as larger institutions, but with fewer resources, which is why it was so fascinating to talk for ATGthePodcast with Russell “Rusty” Michalak, Library Director at Goldey-Beacom College in Delaware. Despite having only 1300 students, Goldey-Beacom …
The books may be there, but can you access them? [my photo]
Sci-Hub, Anna’s Archive, Library Genesis – we are all familiar with these names. They are collectively known as shadow libraries; who knows, perhaps because they only exist in the …
Helen Bischoff gave a fascinating and inspiring presentation at the last Charleston Conference: how the library can become an active learning hub. Helen, who is liaison coordinator at the University of Kentucky. As a follow-up, I talked with her to find …
If you thought being a librarian was just licensing content and shelving books, then think again. Stacey Greenwell, of the University of Kentucky Library, is redefining the role of a librarian at every turn, blending instructional design, IT, and practical research …
Libraries and publishers interact all the time, but how can a library communicate its vision for scholarly publishing? We all know about the limitations of current metrics for journal publishing: all too often the much criticised journal impact factor is used, …
Herbert van de Sompel, recently interviewed for the ATG Podcast, describes himself, somewhat modestly, as an “infrastructure plumber” rather than a librarian. Putting it more accurately, he explains “Over the past 25, 30 years, I’ve done a lot of basic infrastructure …
