We have heard a great deal about front line workers this year – nurses and doctors and all those working for the NHS and its counterpart national and medical organisations throughout the world; teachers; members of the armed forces; delivery men; and those who toil at jobs in retail when they’re allowed to go toContinueContinue reading “Librarians: the quiet and unsung professionals battling Covid every day”
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A holistic approach to sustainability – Oekom Verlag
Oekom is the German “publishing house for Ecological Communication”; it was founded in 1989 and has made the topics of ecology and sustainability its focus ever since. Originally it published the journal “politische ökologie” (“political ecology”) and has built on this to become a publisher of 12 journals and approx. 70 other publications annually. TheContinueContinue reading “A holistic approach to sustainability – Oekom Verlag”
Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham
Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian and the Australian National University (ANU) describes what it means to her to be a librarian Tell us a bit about your career. Did you always want to be a librarian? Where was your first job? Where did you get your library qualification? My mother says that I wanted to beContinueContinue reading “Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham”
Sustainability I – FSC certification
Following the advent of digital publishing at the start of the millennium, one of the key arguments to encourage the switch from print was ecological. Digital enthusiasts were quick to claim that using less paper and shipping fewer print books would help to save the environment. Maintaining sustainability in the publishing sector is, however, muchContinueContinue reading “Sustainability I – FSC certification”
QuoScript – “Whither Writing” – is launched
Linda Bennett describes QuoScript, a new publishing venture QuoScript is a new publishing venture set up by myself and a group of colleagues who together have many years’ experience of working in different roles within the publishing industry. We are primarily driven by the desire to give new authors a chance. Many publishing companies haveContinueContinue reading “QuoScript – “Whither Writing” – is launched”
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