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Academic Publishing & Careers
Last week The Office of Career Planning & Professional Development hosted a Careers in Publishing Session on the 9th Floor of The Graduate Center. Al Bertrand, Associate Publishing Director of Princeton University Press was the guest speaker, and the stage was set for an informative afternoon, centered around what we should expect from a career […]
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New edition of the essential textbook for collection development and management in libraries
Facet Publishing have announced the release of the fourth edition of Peggy Johnson’s Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management. Peggy Johnson has revised and fully updated this textbook to provide a timely and valuable new resource for LIS students and professionals. Each chapter offers complete introductory coverage of one aspect of collection development and management, […]
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The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship wins Art Libraries Society Award
Facet Publishing is pleased to announce that The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship has won the ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Award for Publications. The second edition of The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship was awarded the Worldwide Books Award for Publications at the 46th Annual Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) conference in New York last […]
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Disseminating information research worldwide
At Facet Publishing we endeavour to commission and publish high quality, authoritative content for the information scholar and practitioner worldwide. We are committed to advancing the profession and publishing material that will prepare and inform students and researchers to meet the challenges of the future. We support scholars and researchers throughout the publishing process ensuring […]
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Publishing Makerspace on the Road: Madison BH + DH Conference
The history of the book and its future—in both traditional and nontraditional forms—are connected in fascinating and useful ways: this is a principle that resonates strongly with the members of the Publishing Makerspace Working Group, which explains why we were attracted by the dual theme of the Book History + Digital Humanities conference at the […]
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A thought-provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals
David Haynes has fully revised his classic metadata textbook to bring it up to date with new technologies and standards. It builds on the concept of metadata through an exploration of its purposes and uses as well as considering the main aspects of metadata management and includes brand new chapters on ‘Very Large Data Collections’ […]
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Publishing at DH2017 (Montréal)
As the Fall 2017 semester flashes by, my thoughts continue to turn to the lively DH2017 meeting in August and my 42 pages(!) of notes (typing helps my brain stay alert in long, intense days of back-to-back sessions). I have posted general takeaways elsewhere; here I wanted to share some specific items of potential interest to […]
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Movie Blog Assignment
The first thing I noted while viewing The Legend of Bagger Vance was throughout the golf tournament Vance did not giving any advice to Junah. He waited and allows for Junah to see that he was what was standing in the way of his success. Vance allowed for Junah to see that he needed to change […]
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Digital Culture Sites that Allison Digs
Presented here are five different websites that I have discovered over the years which have fostered my interest in digital media. As a prospective graduate student, these sites (in one way or another) have provided inspiration and have shaped my interests in theories related to multimedia and human-computer interaction. All are fairly simple at the […]
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Presenting about constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space at FemRhet
A couple weeks ago at the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference in Dayton, OH, I presented my paper “Working with/in constellations: Orienting to Feminist Scholarly Publishing Practices.” My presentation, with other co-presenters (Malea Powell and Alex Hidalgo) on the panel, focused on the newly established journal constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space, which is the first pilot […]