Recognizing My Library Heroes of 2014 | Peer to Peer Review

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-01-16

Summary:

" ... Access to information dominates many of our day-to-day issues: what do we do about this package that just announced a price hike? What contortions will it take to use a smaller budget to keep providing to our students and faculty the resources that they need for their learning and research? How do we make this new interface or this discovery layer that we spent so much on actually work, and how are we going to do it and everything else we do with a smaller staff? This is hard stuff. But the heroes to me are those who step back and think critically about how these matters of local access obscure the vast inequality in access to knowledge that we support when pay those increasingly large invoices to corporations that make a hefty profit margin. These are the librarians who ask the hard questions: How do we provide access not just this budget year but for the long term, not just to our students and faculty but to the world? How do we fix this broken system? I’m inspired by people like Lisa Norberg and Rebecca Kennison who work like crazy to analyze the culture of scholarly publishing and propose something bold and difficult and really big. Like the folks who have launched the Library Publishing Coalition. Like my friends in the Oberlin Group who have worked hard to imagine new ways to do open access scholarly monograph publishing collaboratively. We need to make sure that open access doesn’t become another business model for those already entrenched in the one that got us into this fix. The librarians doing this hard work are the ones who take access seriously ..."

Link:

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/01/opinion/peer-to-peer-review/recognizing-my-library-heroes-of-2014-peer-to-peer-review/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.lpc oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.books

Date tagged:

01/16/2015, 10:43

Date published:

01/16/2015, 05:43