Posts by: Katina Strauch
Today’s Chronicle of HIgher Education has an article about the University of California Press and its new Director — Allison Mudditt — who we knew recently at SAGE! She is making some changes — publishing fewer trade titles, closing some long-standing series.
http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-At-U-of-California/128601/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Read More... →According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the August 11 issue of Nature talks about arXiv which Mr. Ginsparg will step away from. In September, staff from the Cornell library will run the site. Reportedly there will be a meeting at Cornell exploring arXiv as a “collaboratively governed, community-supported resource.”
The First Free Research-Sharing Site, [...]
Read More... →Just back from a big Tenure and Promotion Retreat at the College of Charleston. Big in the discussions was peer review and citations. So, I was interested to read this recent blog post in the Chronicle of Higher Education. “All Things Google: Google Scholar Citations,” by Amy Cavender. Right now, the citation part is in [...]
Read More... →It is with great sadness that we report the death of John Merriman.
Here is one reminiscence. We are happy to print others if you will send them to kstrauch@comcast.net
I started attending NASIG in 1988, which was their 3rd conference. I was thoroughly delighted by the mix of librarians, serial agents [...]
Read More... →First one. I was working on the Reference desk when a young student asked for a book (a critical discussion of a famous author) which was in the online catalog. We had it in electronic form only. She insisted that she wanted the print book and asked me if I could locate a print copy. [...]
Read More... →“Jerusalem—To mark Israel’s National Science Day on March 14, which by no coincidence is also Einstein’s birthday, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced that his entire archive of 80,000 documents held as a bequest by the university will be digitized and put online, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Polonsky Foundation of London.” The [...]
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