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Against the Grain Volume 28 | Issue 1 Article 3 2016 If Rumors Were Horses Katina Strauch Against the Grain, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Strauch, Katina (2018) "If Rumors Were Horses," Against the Grain: Vol. 28: Iss. 1, Article 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.7261 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. c/o Katina Strauch 209 Richardson Avenue MSC 98, The Citadel Charleston, SC 29409 ALA MIDWINTER ISSUE TM VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2016 ISSN: 1043-2094 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” What’s In a Container? The Future of the Scholarly Journal by Andrew Wesolek (Head of Digital Scholarship, Clemson University) <[email protected]> and David Scherer (Assistant to the Dean, Carnegie Mellon University) <[email protected]> and Burton Callicott (Coordinator of Instruction, College of Charleston) <[email protected]> s we concluded work on our book, Mak- publishers, offer insights not only into the fu- rise to article level metrics and show how ing Institutional Repositories Work, it ture of the journal as a container of scholarship, these new measures, or altmetrics, are having Abecame clear that much remained to be but into the future of scholarly communication. an impact on decisions scholars are making in said. In our discussions, we often wondered And yes, the irony inherent in guest editing terms of where they choose to publish. Second, how the rise of institutional reposi- an issue of a journal that questions authors explore the role of author copyrights in tories was impacting and would the future of that medium was not scholarly publishing, and how the traditional continue to impact the role of lost on us. Although it is in approach impacts scholarly communication the traditional journal as a virtually all respects a “tra- and library budgets. container for scholarship. ditional,” subscription-based Delving deeper into the themes identified More broadly, as authors periodical, we think that the by Myers and Wright, Collister and Deliyan- continue to take on some of uniquely diverse audience of nides make the case for the inclusion of Alt- the work of disseminating Against the Grain coupled metrics, as an additional and complementary their individual articles on- with the fact that the magazine component along the continuum of scholarly line, impact metrics become has never shied from honest impact metric components. These new metrics more granular, and open ac- analysis and reflection on the world are especially important in an environment of cess megajournals shift focus from content type of scholarly communication makes it an appro- emerging dissemination models and new ways to sound science, it would appear that we may priate venue for this discussion. to measure promotion, tenure, and impact. be nearing the end of the era of the “traditional” In our first contribution, “Academic Pub- continued on page 10 scholarly journal. lishing Traditions,” Meyers and Wright pro- While we did not have the space or time to vide context for the issue, by focusing on two solicit thoughts on the future of the scholarly challenges facing the traditional journal: new What To Look For In This Issue: journal in our book, we are grateful for the article-level metrics and author copyrights. opportunity to do so here. Taken as a whole, the First, the authors provide a background for What’s On Your Nightstand? .......... 48 contributors to this issue, both librarians and the factors and philosophies that have given Can Laches Bar a Copyright Claim? ...49 Facing the Ugly Truth: Inventory ....62 Reading the Room........................... 63 If Rumors Were Horses Legends, Or What’s An Expanded Universe? ......................................... 72 et more consolidation! YBP has pur- February issue of ATG — one from YBP and Exploring Information of Japanese chased Ambassador Book Services. the other from Ambassador! Americans’ Experiences in Internment YYBP and Ambassador Book Services Have you kept up with all that’s happening Camps during World War II ...............75 are working closely together to transition Am- with the Librarian of Congress (LnOC) Reflections about Consortia-world...78 bassador customers over to YBP’s systems position? James Billington was appointed Interviews and services. To avoid any interruption of by Ronald Reagan in 1987and has retired/ service, YBP representatives will be in touch resigned. David S. Mao became Acting Jason Coleman................................ 34 shortly to assist with the transition of Ambas- Librarian of Congress Oct. 1, 2015. Nancy Peter C. Froehlich .......................... 37 sador accounts to YBP. Herther has written a two-part article on Profiles Encouraged https://www.ebsco.com/promo/ambassa- the ATG NewsChannel about the issues sur- dor-book-services rounding this important appointment including Jason Coleman................................ 33 Oh! How great that Billington’s accomplishments, and the need for University of Virginia Press............ 36 we have two ads back vision and oversight of the Library of Con- to back gress position. There are countless questions at the and countless opinions on the next steps and front what should be done. Peter Brantley (Director of this continued on page 6 1043-2094(201602)28:1;1-V From Your (good vibes) Editor: 2016 is off to a good start. Everybody Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield (technology Bruce Strauch pulls out his legal glasses seems upbeat, the students and faculty are and publishing), and Maggie Farrell and to talk about laches and copyright while back, grandson George is walking and talking Alicia Wise (advancing research). Lolly Gasaway answers all your questions and even has teeth, and we are Our OpEd by Rick An- out there. Michelle Flinchbaugh tells us making new improvements to the derson is about giving peo- about the eight-year journey of the repository library. ple what they want (or not), ScholarWorks@UMBC, Myer Kutz lets us This issue of ATG is especially Back Talk (Ann Okerson) in on the PROSE awards, Ramune Kubilius full of good vibes! What’s In a is about Consortia, Tom and her group give us meeting reports from Container? The Future of the Sanville and ICOLC. the 2015 Charleston Conference as does Don Scholarly Journal by Andrew Our interviews are with Hawkins from NFAIS. Beth Daniel Lindsay Wesolek, David Scherer, and Jason Coleman (University and Ilke Datig talk about Student Advisory Burton Callicott expands on the of Virginia Press) and Peter Groups, Stacey Marien and Alayne Mundt Charleston Insights monograph Froehlich (Purdue University follow up on the Washington Research Making Institutional Reposito- Press). Collecting to the Core is Libraries Consortium and American Uni- ries Work. Articles are by Carla about Francis Paul Prucha’s The Great versity’s shared retention project and there is Myers (academic publishing), Father and Native American Studies. We much more but I have run out of room! Oops! Lauren Collister and Timothy S. Deliyan- have reference reviews from Tom Gilson and Anyway, gotta go to an oyster roast. It’s nides (Altmetrics), Laura Bowering Mullen other reviews from Regina Gong, also Donna an “r” month so the oysters will be perfect. and David Ross (author copyrights), Phill Jacobs continues on her Nobel Laureates and Enjoy and “good vibes” to all y’all! Love, Jones and Mark Hahne (data repositories), Tom Leonhardt talks about his nightstand. Yr. Ed. Letters to the Editor Rumors from page 1 Send letters to <[email protected]>, phone or fax 843-723-3536, or snail mail: Against the Grain, MSC 98, The Citadel, Charleston, SC 29409. You can also send of Online Strategy for UCDavis Library has been vocal about the lack of vision and leader- a letter to the editor from the ATG Homepage at http://www.against-the-grain.com. ship at the LOC. Other national leaders have been critical as well including Jim O’Donnell and Courtney Young, two of our keynote Dear Editor: speakers in Charleston in 2015. Letter addressed — Dear Charleston Conference: We hope to have more discussion of this I thoroughly enjoyed my first Charleston Conference and topic in Charleston 2016. greatly look forward to returning to Charleston next November. http://www.against-the-grain.com Will try to attend some pre-conference events as well this time. Speaking of Charleston 2016, we want to Best, Laura put together a group of younger librarians and Laura Gewissler (University of Vermont, Burlington) end users to talk to us about what they think <[email protected]> the library of the 21st century will be/should be like. Please send suggestions to <kstrauch@ comcast.net> and label the subject line “young Dear Laura, Thanks so much for your comments! News about the 2016 (36th Annual) Main turks.” Charleston Conference (November 2-5, 2016) will be released shortly. Best regards and see you in November! Katina Strauch, Charleston Conference Founder and Convener. — Yr. Ed. I swear I do not understand where Antho- ny Watkinson gets his energy. He is always on the go (in fact I just got an email that said hello from Morocco). Anthony in his copious spare time just wrote a report for the German AGAINST THE GRAIN DEADLINES magazine B.I.T. (Bibliothek Information VOLUME 28 — 2016-2017 Technologie) about the 2015 Charleston Conference. The article is in German but 2016 Events Issue Ad Reservation Camera-Ready we hope to link to it eventually. It is great to have this international reach. Congratulations, MLA, SLA, Book Expo April 2016 02/18/16 03/10/16 Anthony, and Thanks! ALA Annual June 2016 04/07/16 04/28/16 http://www.b-i-t-online.de/index.php Reference Publishing September 2016 06/16/16 07/07/16 Was reading an article in Folio magazine and saw that Time, Inc.