Libraries Working Together for Best Practices

July 19, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Libraries Working Together for Best Practices

Two university libraries have joined together to start a new open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to library-led scholarly communication initiatives, online publishing and digital projects.

The new project is named the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, and will provide a focused forum for library practitioners to share ideas, strategies, research and explorations of library-led initiatives. Topics will include institutional repository and digital collection management, and library publishing/hosting services and authors’ rights advocacy efforts. The journal will be co-edited by Marisa Ramirez (Cal Poly) and Isaac Gilman (Pacific University).

Libraries are known for resource sharing, collection management, cataloging/metadata, instruction and public services. The journal aims to lift up best practices in all those areas and provide a shared intellectual space.

We found this news on Pacific University Oregon’s site in the release titled, “Pacific University Library and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Library form partnership.”

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.