Gene Nichol, LCRM conference panelist and Board of Consultant member among many other roles, was recently on WUNC’s The State of Things to discuss his life and his position as Director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC. You can listen to the interview online here and get a chance to meet Gene Nichol.
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The LCRM project team would like you to participate in our new Survey for Librarians. The survey is designed to allow librarians a chance to offer their feedback on our latest activities and ideas for innovative publishing projects. And, to show our appreciation for those who participate, we are pleased to offer a free UNC Press book from a list of four specially selected titles for completing the survey. We look forward to hearing from you!
This is the final post in a seven-part series in which we will share some of the results of our survey for scholars with you.
In our recent Faculty Survey, an interesting side debate developed in the scholars’ comments about the future of print. One respondent clearly thought that printed materials would be less important in the future. This respondent said:
- “This seems to me to be a library or subscription like project. Printing out is going to wane drastically. Kindle: yes! As for full-text monographs, I’d probably just ask them to buy the book. For a chapter, maybe access on line.”
But a few other scholars had drastically different views on the importance of print. Continue reading ‘Survey Results: The Future of Print’
This is the sixth post in a seven-part series in which we will share some of the results of our survey for scholars with you.
In the final section of our recent Faculty Survey, we raised the issue of sustainability for the LCRM project’s proposed online publishing innovations, such as a bibliography, an online collection of LCRM-related content, and an online coursepack service and the importance of establishing effective business models. The scholars were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with several statements about ways the business model could be shaped. While there was no strong agreement on any of the specific issues, most respondent expressed a desire to see the project sustain itself in the long term while remaining “affordable,” which one scholar defined as a packet of online materials costing “the same amount as a published monograph.”
Here are a few things that our respondents said about a business model for the LCRM project: Continue reading ‘Survey Results: Business Models’
This is the fifth post in a seven-part series in which we will share some of the results of our survey for scholars with you.
In our recent Faculty Survey, the fifth topic that we asked scholars to give us some feedback about was the creation of a coursepack service. Building on the idea of an online collection, a coursepack service might allow scholars using the collection to aggregate materials together for teaching purposes and make them available as a single packet to students online or in print, with the main focus being on the online component. Interest was high in a coursepack service with 78% of the 279 respondents interested in using the service.
Here’s a sampling of the scholars’ reactions to a coursepack service: Continue reading ‘Survey Results: Coursepack Service’
This is the fourth post in a seven-part series in which we will share some of the results of our survey for scholars with you.
The fourth section of our survey asked scholars to evaluate the possibility of creating an online collection of LCRM-related works. The proposed collection could consist of either LCRM-related publications or LCRM-related publications along with primary-source documents. Scholars loved this idea with an amazing 96% of the 279 respondents supporting the creation of an online collection of LCRM-related publications and 97% of the 279 respondents requesting the inclusion of primary-source documents in the collection.
Here’s what some of the scholars had to say about an online collection: Continue reading ‘Survey Results: LCRM Online Collection’
This is the third post in a seven-part series in which we will share some of the results of our survey for scholars with you.
In our recent Faculty Survey, the third aspect of the LCRM project that we asked for the scholars’ input on was the idea of “community publications.” Community publications would contain all of the enhancements of multilayered publications (additional asides from the authors, additional sidebars, and links to multimedia primary sources used by the authors that are available on the internet), but they would go a step further by providing a space for conversations and communities to develop around the work to keep the conversation started by the author going after the work has been published. Once again we asked scholars if they were interested in writing or using community publications. Only 56% of the 284 respondents were interested in authoring a community publication, but 82% of the 284 respondents were interested in using community publications.
This is the second post in a seven-part series in which we will share some of the results of our survey for scholars with you.
The second topic covered in our recent Faculty Survey was the notion of “Multilayered Publications.” Multilayered publications would be online publications that go beyond their print counterparts by including additional asides from the authors, additional sidebars, and links to multimedia primary sources used by the authors that are available on the internet. The scholars were asked if they would like to publish or use multilayered publications. A good portion of the 285 respondents, 63%, were interested in authoring multilayered publications. But there was even stronger interest in using multilayered publications, with 89% of the 284 respondents indicating they would use multilayered works in their teaching or research. Across both groups, respondents were particularly excited about the chance to link to multimedia primary sources.
Continue reading ‘Survey Results: Multilayered Publications’