David Crotty, Lettie Y. Conrad, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Lettie Y. Conrad, Ph.D., is an independent researcher and consultant, leveraging a variety of methods to drive human-centric product strategy and evidence-based decisions. Lettie currently serves as Product Experience Architect for LibLynx as well as a part-time lecturer for San Jose State’s School of Information. Lettie is Deputy Editor for The Scholarly Kitchen and an active volunteer with the Society for Scholarly Publishing and the Association for Information Science and Technology. Read more about Lettie on LinkedIn, ORCID, and Bluesky.

Articles by Lettie Y. Conrad

The Scholarly Kitchen Hires a Sous Chef

Join us in welcoming Lettie Conrad as the new Deputy Editor at The Scholarly Kitchen.

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data

Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.

Telling the Story of How Open Access Benefits Society: A Vision for the Future

Traditional metrics do not allow us to fully express how OA publishing benefits society; here’s a vision for the future of storytelling with usage data in scholarly communications.

Ask the Chefs: Making Sense of Changing US Policies

We asked the Chefs to weigh in on the policy chaos emerging from Washington over the last ten days.

Is it Over Now (Social Media Version)?

In 2023 we twice assessed the social media landscape and with the explosion of Bluesky over the last weeks it seemed a good time to reassess. How do Chefs use social media differently now, and what are they seeing as platforms of choice or opportunity?

First-Hand Publishing Experiences: Researcher Panel at SSP’s New Directions Seminar

A diverse panel of researchers shared their first-hand publishing experiences at the 2024New Directions seminar.

Inclusive R&D: Can it Become the Rule, Not an Exception?

Inclusive publishing and design practices should be the status quo and not an afterthought.

Point/Counterpoint on the Framing of DEIA Efforts: Should We Separate the Personal from the Professional?

Today we offer a double-post, with a proposal and a response concerning how we frame our efforts toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as a community.

Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?

Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.

Measuring Metadata Impacts on Discoverability: A Conversation at the 2023 AUPresses Meeting

A panel attending the 2023 AUPresses Meeting hosted a conversation about optimizing books metadata and measuring its impact on search experiences in the mainstream web.

Navigating the Shifting Sands: New Directions Organizers on the Upcoming Seminar

Volunteer organizers reflect on SSP’s upcoming 2023 New Directions seminar — early bird registration closes September 8th!

Web-scale Institutional Search: What are Publishers Doing Today?

Twelve years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are scholarly content providers leveraging ODI conformance statements to drive transparency and usage via web-scale library discovery services?

Ask the Vendors: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting

We check in with scholarly publishing vendors for their experiences at the 2023 SSP Annual meeting in Portland.

Know Better, Do Better: Learned Publishing Reflects on DEIA in Scholarly Communications

The first 2023 issue of Learned Publishing reflects on how to make lasting, meaningful improvements to our industry’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).

Measuring Metadata Impacts: Books Discoverability in Google Scholar

Although Google Scholar claims to not use DOI metadata in its search index, a recent study finds that books with DOIs are generally more discoverable than those without DOIs.

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