I am the editorial, design, and production manager at Wayne State University press. My primary interest is scholarly communication, particularly where scholarly publishers and libraries meet. I have an MLIS and often think about doing a PhD in information science or communications. This blog has had a sputtering start, but I’m planning to use it to publicly think through my reading about scholarly communication. I volunteered to lead my press to some sort of solution, which includes developing a relationship with our library and raising our administration’s awareness of the new work university presses are doing with electronic scholarship. My perspective is from the trenches.
March 4, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Hi! My supervisor pointed out your blog post to me today in the Chronicle. I’m a librarian in academic publishing too–sales, actually. I have an MLS that I got in ‘05.
I’m the token librarian here, the one with the “She Blinded me with Library Science” T-shirt; the one that’s always ruining everyone’s groove by saying, “That’s too expensive for libraries. They can’t afford that”, and the one that gets emails wanting verification, e.g. “Kate, from where does this quote originate?”
It made me so happy to read your blog. It’s lonely to be a reference librarian in academic publishing.
I felt like Henry in the book, “Henry: The Dog with No Tail.” (Henry is an Australian Shepherd. They are born with no tail.)
Then I saw your blog, and my head popped up and I barked, “Hey! Hey! She has no tail either!”
So happy to find your blog.
Kate MLS ‘05
March 4, 2008 at 7:08 pm
so thrilled to find your blog!
i’m a soon-to-graduate MLIS student and my hubby is in academic publishing so you have definitely found an audience in my household.
i look forward to reading more.
Cheers,
amy
March 21, 2008 at 10:39 pm
The posting you mention in your March 12 entry about copyediting was a posting that I did on liblicense in response to one by Greg Tananbaum and then copied to the AAUP listserv because I thought it would be of interest to that listserv as well. Read the article about copyediting in the latest issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing; it’s very entertaining!