Against The Grain - The Podcast

In today's episode, we'll hear from Corey Seeman. Corey is the Director of Kresge Library Services of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. The unit has recently undergone a great transformation from a traditional library to an electronic-only library service group with the completion of the Ross Construction project in 2016. He has written articles primarily in the areas such as library systems, cataloging (especially in the context of special library collections) and on collection development issues associated with autism. He will be focusing his writing on change management in the library and service issues associated with academic libraries, especially in the area of hospitality. He is passionate about library service, and sees this as a way that we can remain a critical part of the educational and research function in a world that is increasingly self-serve. On a lighter note – he has a cooking blog and a somewhat over-the-top obsession with squirrels and cats (that you can see via h

In today's episode, Matthew Ismail, Head of Collection Development at Central Michigan University, conducts a fascinating interview with Lamia Eid from the American University in Cairo. Topics of conversation range from her family background and upbringing in Cairo, to her education, and how she came to a career in the library at the AUC. Lamia Eid, Associate Dean of Main Library, Libraries and Learning Technologies (LLT) at the American University in Cairo oversees the overall teaching and services functions and operations of the main library. Lamia plays a leadership role in continuing the evolution of the AUC's research library and in directing efforts to increase the AUC's libraries prominence in the community as an organization worthy of support. As the Associate Dean of the Main library, she works on expanding the role of the library and reputation - nationally, regionally and globally - in education and research. More about her background and biography can be found at http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/lamiah

NOTE: This is a re-post of the episode originally published on 8/13/17, that was removed due to a technical issue. Welcome to episode 34 of ATG: The Podcast.  This week, we're featuring a conversation between David Hirsch and Matthew Ismail. David Hirsch is the Middle East Librarian at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library. He received his MA in Middle Eastern Studies and a second MA in Library Science from the University of Chicago in 1990. He had previously obtained a BA in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. His first professional job was as a cataloguer on the Near East Cataloging Team at Princeton University. He moved to UCLA in 1989 where he initially served as Near East Bibliographer and gradually added on responsibilities in Central Asian, Armenian, South Asian and Islamic Studies. Since arriving at UCLA has worked closely with UCLA's Middle Eastern print collections as well as the Islamic Manuscripts collection. He has a special interest in Arab diaspora communities and t

Welcome to episode 36 of ATG: The Podcast.  We have a short episode this week, but still packed with lots of good stuff. First off, do you know a rising star in the library and information world?  Would you like to see them recognized for their promising achievements?  Look no further!  ATG Media is thrilled to announce the first ever round of nominations for Up and Comers.  Who exactly is an "Up and Comer", you ask?  They are librarians, library staff, vendors, publishers, MLIS students, instructors, consultants, and researchers who are new to their field or are in the early years of the profession.  An Up and Comer can be someone you work with, someone you've presented with or shaken hands with at a conference, or someone whose accomplishments and potential you admire.  Up and Comers are passionate about the future of libraries.  They innovate, inspire, collaborate, and take risks.  They are future library leaders and change makers.  And they all have one thing in common: they deserve to be celebrated.  The

Hi, this is Leah Hinds. Welcome to episode 35 of ATG: The Podcast. Against the Grain is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. Our goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. This week, we're excited to feature an interview with Dr. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, who is Executive Editor and Publisher at IGI Global, and our own Katina Strauch, Founder and Convener of the Charleston Conference and Editor of Against the Grain. I'm really excited to talk with you both – thanks for taking the time to chat with us today! That's it for this week! Thanks again to Mehdi and Katina, and to our listeners for joining us. If you have comments or questions, you can click the "Contact" button on the podcast website, or you can email me directly at leah@charlestonlibraryconference.com. Hope to hear from you soon!  

This week, Leah Hinds hosts another installment in our series of Charleston Conference preconference previews! You can find registration for these sessions on the main conference registration page, and session details are available on the conference website. Charleston Library Conference Website Metadata Preconference Preview A big welcome to Clare Dean and Jennifer Kemp today! They're presenting a preconference session titled, "Sharing and Discovery 'Without Good Metadata, What is the Cost to Society? What Discoveries Are We Missing?" It's scheduled for Tuesday, November 7, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Clare Dean is a Marketing and Communications Publishing Consultant and the Community Outreach Manager for Metadata 2020. With over 12 years of experience in the publishing industry, she has worked for a variety of publishers including John Wiley & Sons, Emerald Group Publishing, and most recently as the Director of Marketing and Communications for the open access journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Jen

Welcome to episode 32 of ATG: The Podcast. Against the Grain is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. Our goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. This week, Leah Hinds hosts another installment in our series of Charleston Conference preconference previews! You can find registration for these sessions on the main conference registration page, and session details are available on the conference website. Charleston Library Conference Website First, we're happy to welcome Lettie Conrad and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. They're presenting a preconference titled "Prospecting User Perspectives and Practices for Past Trends and Future Predictions." It will be held on Tuesday, November 7, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Starts at the 13 minute, 20 second mark in the recording. Lettie Conrad brings 15+ years publishing experience to her work with a variety of global infor

Preconference Preview Part 3: Combating "Fake News" This week, we have another in our series of Charleston Conference preconference previews! We have an amazing group of preconference sessions that will be held on Monday and Tuesday, November 6 and 7, prior to the start of the main conference. This is the third installment in our series of preconference previews, and we'll continue that in the future with more episodes that interview the presenters and give a little bit more background and detail on the sessions themselves. You can find registration for these sessions on the main conference registration page, and session details are available on the conference website. As a reminder, there are several applications that are open for opportunities at the conference we'd like to draw your attention to. First, the Charleston Fast Pitch Competition is looking for proposals that pitch a winning idea to improve service at an academic or research library. This contest is designed to recognize and reward new innovatio

This week, we have another installment of "Let's Get Technical" by ATG Column Editors Stacey Marien (Acquisitions Librarian, American University Library) and Alayne Mundt (Resource Description Librarian, American University Library) focusing on practical problems and solutions in Technical Services departments. Columns covered are: Let's Get Technical - A Technical Services Perspective On Taking On A Shared Retention Project, Part Two Let's Get Technical - The Paper Chase, How One Library Tracked the Chaos of Media Ordering Let's Get Technical - Desk Tracker, A New Way of Tracking Cataloging Statistics But first, Leah Hinds has a couple of quick announcements for the conference. The Call for Papers deadline was Friday, July 14, and we received a ton of fantastic proposals, as always. The conference planning committee will review all of these proposals over the next week and will be contacting the primary session organizers with decisions by August 1. There are a couple of applications that are open for opport

Welcome to episode 29 of ATG: The Podcast. This week, we're continuing our previews of upcoming preconferences at the 2017 Charleston Conference. We have a great set of sessions on a wide range of topics that are designed for several different segments of the Charleston audience. Registration for all preconference sessions is included on the main conference registration page at the link in the show notes. Session details, including descriptions, speaker lists, and bios are available on the conference schedule, also linked in the show notes. LINKS: Preconference schedule with session details   Registration for the Charleston Conference, including preconferences: Product Development Forums: Charleston Premiers:  Charleston Fast Pitch Competition:  The applications for Juried Product Development Forums and the Charleston Premiers are now open on the conference website. These are both opportunities for publishers and vendors to connect with the Charleston community. The Juried Product Development Forums are desig

Welcome to episode 28 of ATG: The Podcast. Against the Grain is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. Our goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. But first, we have an exciting travel award announcement from JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Link to the Travel Award   Before we get to the interviews, we have a few announcements to share from the Charleston Conference. We just announced on Friday that we have new and improved session threads. Our lively lunch discussions, concurrent sessions, innovation sessions, and poster sessions are also organized by topic into threads to help attendees navigate the program and hopefully make it easier to make selections for which session to attend. In an effort to consolidate and simplify, we have re-organized them into the following seven groups: Analytics, Collections, Library Services, Managemen

Welcome to episode 27 of ATG: The Podcast. Against the Grain is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. Our goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. But first, we have an exciting travel award announcement from JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Link to the Travel Award Additional Information Today we're being joined by Michael Arthur and Melissa Jones to discuss the "Being Earnest with Collections" column from the February 2017 issue of Against the Grain. The article was titled "Improving Internal Communications at Georgetown University Library." Link to the article Michael A. Arthur has been Head, Resource Acquisition & Discovery at The University of Alabama since 2015. He has focused on completing a major workflow analysis project within the newly established department with a focus on finding efficiencies and implementing policies

Kate Ross, Charleston Conference's Fast Pitch Competition winner On today's episode, Leah Hinds talks with Kate Ross about her winning project that was presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference Fast Pitch Competition. Kate is the Head of Technical Services/Acquisitions Librarian at St. John Fisher College's Lavery Library in Rochester, NY. Since Kate was responsible for Interlibrary Loan in previous positions, she seeks out opportunities to work with Interlibrary Loan practitioners and learn more about ILL tools in order to increase student and faculty access to information, whether owned by Lavery Library or borrowed from your Library! She has shared a series of projects on the intersection of Acquisitions and ILL at local, regional and national conferences such as SUNYLA, IDS Project Annual Conference, OVGTSL, and the Charleston Conference.Kate was a finalist who presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference's Fast Pitch Competition. A little background about the competition: In 2015, the Charleston Confere

Getting Technical Again with Stacey Marien and Alayne Mundt In this episode we get to hear Katina Strauch's weekly Rumors segment. Following Katina we hear three more articles from the series "Lets Get Technical" by ATG Column Editors Stacey Marien (Acquisitions Librarian, American University Library) and Alayne Mundt (Resource Description Librarian, American University Library) focusing on practical problems and solutions in Technical Services departments. Columns covered are: Let's Get Technical - Moving Technical Services To An Offsite Space Let's Get Technical - A Technical Services Perspective On Taking On A Shared Retention Project, Part One Let's Get Technical - Piloting a DDA Program For Specific Subjects This week's Katina's Rumors: It was exciting to learn that the innovatively full of ideas, Alison Mudditt is leaving UCPress to take up the role of CEO of PLOS in San Francisco. Alison says this has not been an easy decision for her. She is still passionate about the critical mission and role of Univ

Reflections on the 2017 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat This week, we're talking with the group that's the driving force behind the Fiesole Collection Development Retreats: Becky Lenzini, Michele Casalini, and our own Katina Strauch. David Worlock is also joining us to give his insights and take aways from this year's retreat. http://www.casalini.it/retreat/retreat_2017.html We also have another "Cases of Note" article from Bruce Strauch on Invasion of Privacy, Appropriation. BELA GEORGE LUGOSI et al. v. UNIVERSAL PICTURES Rebecca Lenzini is President of The Charleston Company which publishes The Charleston Advisor and The Charleston Report, and is co-sponsor/co-founder of the Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series. She began her career in libraries in the Serials Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was Vice President and Director of The Faxon Company's Academic Division. Following her tenure at Faxon, Rebecca served as President of CARL Corporation (Denver, CO) and

Let's Get Technical with Stacey Marien and Alayne Mundt On today's episode we cover a number of topics. First off is Katina Strauch with her weekly Rumors segment. Then we hear from Katina's husband Bruce Strauch as he tells us a fascinating "Case of Note" story involving reality TV, violent street gangs and the anti-SLAPP statute. We then hear three articles from ATG Column Editors Stacey Marien (Acquisitions Librarian, American University Library) and Alayne Mundt (Resource Description Librarian, American University Library) focusing on practical problems and solutions in Technical Services departments. This is the first of a series of articles that Stacey and Alayne will be presenting on the podcast. This week's Katina's Rumors: There are many people who help us to keep the Charleston Conference and ATG running! One of our main technical advisers is Matt Branton. Matt has worked at the College of Charleston for most of his young lifetime! He has two darling girls – Lockie and Tallulah and a wonderful wife

Interview with Gary Price This week Leah Hinds takes over the host duties as we feature a discussion between Gary Price of infoDOCKET and our own Tom Gilson and Katina Strauch. The talk centers around the latest in open data resources and the library's potential role in harvesting those resources and making them discoverable. We also have an update on privacy concerns from his 2015 Charleston Conference plenary talk with the Long Arm of the Law panel. Gary is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He is currently the Resource and Reference Center Director for GIJN and founder/editor of infoDOCKET.com, a daily update of news and new research tools. He grew up in the Chicago suburbs where he attended New Trier High School. Price received a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Kansas, and a Masters of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University in Detroit. He was for a time a reference librarian at George Washington Uni

Jim O'Donnell - Libraries as Showcase, Showplace and Showroom On today's episode we talk with Jim O'Donnell about the ongoing renovations of the Hayden Library on the campus of Arizona State University, and their goal to make the library a showcase, showplace and showroom for ASU students. Jim also shares his thoughts on taking inspiration from the world of retail to shape the future of academic libraries. We had several challenges to deal with in the production of this week's show. The first of which was carving time out of Jim O'Donnell's busy schedule. Jim had just returned from the 19th Annual Fiesole Collection Development Retreat in Lille, France the day before. This was the same conference that Leah Hinds attended as representative for Against The Grain. Due to the time difference between us on the east coast and Arizona State University, Jim started what was to become a very busy week for him by speaking with us at 7:30 in the morning his time. The other challenge involved the ever-present complexitie

Legal Talk from Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay All of us at Against The Grain - The Podcast have been busy lining up great new content and interviews for future episodes. Due to scheduling issues and Leah Hind's trip to France for a conference, we had a gap to fill in the podcast schedule. Fortunately two of our regular contributors to the Against The Grain journal, Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay were able to step in and put together a quick conversation around banned books (specifically D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover") and the resulting litigation that ensued. Bruce Strauch, The Citadel, Professor of Business Law (Retired) Bruce Strauch, J.D. is a Professor of Business Law and Director of the Citadel Mentors Program. He holds degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and Oxford, is extensively published in the field of copyright and trademark, is the author of nine novels and the publisher of a trade journal of the scholarly publishing industry. His wife Katina is the founder of the Charleston Conference and Ass

The Value of Publishing: In-Depth Panel Discussion On today's episode, we take an in-depth examination of the costs and complexities of scholarly publishing. Nancy Maron (ATGthePodcast #14) takes over the host duties in a panel discussion with three of the authors that contributed to her recent article in the Against The Grain journal titled The Value of Publishing:What's Worth Paying For. Nancy Maron is president of BlueSky to BluePrint, a consulting firm supporting leaders in libraries, publishing, and digital initiatives who want to build, grow, and sustain their innovative enterprises. Her guest authors and their referenced articles are: · Becky Brasington Clark, Director of Library of Congress Publishing Office. Before that, she was the longtime director of marketing for Johns Hopkins University Press and is a former marketing chief at Brookings Institutional Press. Becky's article, Ditching the Guillotine: An Education in Accessibility offers an eye-opening look at the challenges of making books easily