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Lettie Y. Conrad

Driving Responsibly with Identity Management (Part 2: A Case Study)

Emerald Publishing’s identity strategy aims to re-conceive their publishing platform as a digital experience that builds emotive connections with users and seamlessly delivers the answers they need.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Tim Lloyd
  • Mar 2, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read (and more!) During 2020, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!) . Part 2.

  • By David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Charlie Rapple, Judy Luther, Alison Mudditt, Lettie Y. Conrad, Jasmine Wallace, Todd A Carpenter, Tim Vines
  • Nov 25, 2020
  • 2 Comments

The Role of Information in UN Sustainability Goals: Highlights from the 2020 ASIS&T Meeting

Information scholars address UN sustainability goals during virtual 2020 ASIS&T conference

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 10, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Chefs ‘Set the Stage’ for SSP New Directions Seminar

Scholarly Kitchen Chefs open SSP’s 2020 New Directions seminar discussing how we can support academic peer-reviewed research and the entire academic publishing ecosystem during this unprecedented year of disruptions, disease, and disappointments.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Charlie Rapple, Haseeb Irfanullah, Judy Luther, Alice Meadows
  • Sep 28, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Ask The Chefs: Improving Trust In Peer Review

In support of #PeerRevWk20 theme #TrustInPeerReview, we asked the Chefs how trust in peer review could be improved. See what the said and add your thoughts!

  • By Ann Michael, Robert Harington, Rick Anderson, Tim Vines, Jasmine Wallace, Lettie Y. Conrad, David Smith, Haseeb Irfanullah, Charlie Rapple, Karin Wulf, Alice Meadows, Phill Jones, Todd A Carpenter
  • Sep 17, 2020
  • 12 Comments

“Little Deals” Everywhere: Is Demand-driven Collection Development Catching Fire?

As the big deal falls, we are witnessing a shift in academic library purchasing power closer to the point of need.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Aug 11, 2020
  • 3 Comments

Driving Responsibly with Identity Management (Part 1)

Few scholarly publishers make effective use of identity management, but we should — and now is a good time to consider a comprehensive identity strategy.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Tim Lloyd
  • May 6, 2020
  • 4 Comments

Parenting School Aged Children Through a Pandemic

A group of Chefs reflects the struggles we are facing, and the lessons we are learning, about parenting during the pandemic. 

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, David Crotty, Angela Cochran, Karin Wulf, Lettie Y. Conrad, Tao Tao
  • Mar 19, 2020
  • 6 Comments

Humans are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges

From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity — and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Mar 2, 2020
  • 7 Comments

Back to Basics: When in Doubt, Get Fundamental

Flashy new technologies come and go, but getting back to basics is a reminder that the “killer app” is high-quality content, composed in accordance with established standards for discoverability and accessibility.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jan 7, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2019 Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.

  • By Joseph Esposito, David Crotty, Lettie Y. Conrad, Robert Harington, Jasmine Wallace, Alice Meadows
  • Nov 26, 2019
  • 11 Comments

Questioning Our Assumptions in Publishing Innovations: Inspiration from the Story of Indigital

Mikaela Jade and the Indigital app inspire us to question our privileged assumptions of “the user” in information design.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 4, 2019
  • 0 Comments

Thinking about the Art and Science of Image Description: An Interview with textBOX Founders

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the folks at textBOX can help publishers present that descriptive text (“alt-text”) to the online world, meeting key accessibility and discoverability demands.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 10, 2019
  • 6 Comments

The Robots are Writing: Will Machine-Generated Books Accelerate our Consumption of Scholarly Literature?

Does Springer Nature’s first machine-generated book usher in a new era of authorship? Or readership? Are the robots writing?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 25, 2019
  • 9 Comments

Investing in the Researcher Experience

Last week’s ACRL and STM conferences demonstrated that libraries and publishers have a renewed desire to understand the researcher experience and embrace the scholarly information practices that will define our future.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Apr 18, 2019
  • 1 Comment

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