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”
Category Archives: Learning from Libraries
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”
Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile
I first met Mrs Lee Cheng Ean in January 2013 at dual advisory board meetings which I facilitated in Shanghai and Beijing, but her reputation long preceded that. She is extremely well-known in both the East and the West as one of the world’s most competent and inspired librarians. I have since met her atContinueContinue reading “Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile”
White Rose University Press: the Library as Publisher
Triggered in part by the Open Access movement and also by the desire of early-career researchers and students (undergraduates as well as postgraduates) to find reputable publishing outlets for their work, in recent years there has been a steep increase in the number of university libraries setting up or encouraging the foundation of presses forContinueContinue reading “White Rose University Press: the Library as Publisher”
Changing sides: From Publisher to Library
In the academic publishing world, every now and again you meet librarians who have moved across to work for a publisher, or vice versa. We wondered about their motivations and experiences, so we decided to talk to some of them. Three weeks ago, we spoke to Tash Edmonds, who left her job as a librarianContinueContinue reading “Changing sides: From Publisher to Library”
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