Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community appeared in ACRLog and is a guest post from Sue Wiegand, Periodicals Librarian at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN.  Sue recounts her experience as the first librarian to serve as Chair of her Faculty Assembly and in the process touches on issues [...]

Here is an eclectic list of recent publications that includes an editorial in a local newspaper in Steamboat Springs, CO; a report in the NY Times on academic conferences and journals;  a SPARC primer on article level metrics; a presentation made at the ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference; and a white paper sponsored by [...]

The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal  is an article in TechCrunch  that discusses a new long-form journalism startup called The Big Roundtable.  The new start-up the brain child of  Michael Shapiro a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism.  Rather than the common practice [...]