Trendspotting at SSP 2022
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) Editor’s Note: This article will also be published in an upcoming issue of Against the Grain as part of the “Don’s Conference Notes” column. The Trendspotting Initiative, by Lisa...The Miles Conrad Lecture
Against the Grain V34#2 The Miles Conrad lecture has been a highlight of NISO conferences, and NFAIS meetings. It was established to honor the memory of G. Miles Conrad who was director of Biological Abstracts, (now BIOSIS Previews). In 1957 he organized a...Don’s Conference Notes- Camp ER&L 2022: A Very Unusual Conference
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) When the organizers of the 17th Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) Conference, Bonnie Tijerina, her sister Sandy, and Conference Planner Danielle Sell, began to plan the event scheduled for...Don’s Conference Notes: Internet Librarian Connect 2021
By: Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger Information Today’s 2021 Internet Librarian conference, was scheduled for October 26-28 in Monterey, CA, but because of COVID it became a totally virtual event. This was the 25th Internet Librarian...Don’s Conference Notes- New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: An SSP Virtual Seminar
By Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor This virtual seminar organized by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) occurred on October 5-6, 2021 and was entitled “How to Move Fast and Not Break Things: Balancing High-Speed Outputs at the risk...Farewell
And so we have come to the end of the 2021 Charleston Conference–the first fully hybrid one. Judging from various comments, it was very successful. Now we look forward to 2022, and we hope it returns to its “new normal.” So stay safe and don’t...Closing Session and Poll-A-Palooza
Sandy Avila, Science Librarian and Athena Hoeppner, Discovery Services Librarian, both at the University of Central Florida coordinated the immensely popular closing session. The Palooza featured questions to which the audience answered using polling software. Here...On the (Open Access) Road Again: Is the Value of the Big Deal Declining?
Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver, described studies about the value of the Big Deal. He presented a report last year on a study of the growth in OA publishing,but that does not have an effect on Big Deals. According to Delta Think, the...Free Falling: Hiring and Onboarding Remotely During a Pandemic
Erin Gallagher and Jason Heckathorn from the Acquisitions and Collections Department in the library at the University of Florida said that they like others were required to work from home.in March 2020 which was in a hiring freeze. There were 3 open positions, and...Subscribe to our Podcast:
