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Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 3 & 4)

A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 3 & 4.

  • By October Ivins, Ryan Reeh, Adrian Stanley
  • Jun 28, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — At the Nature Picket

The strike at Springer Nature raises questions about how editorial work is valued.

  • By Charles Whalley
  • Jun 26, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

18 Life Lessons

Charlie Rapple shares 18 hard-won nuggets of wisdom to ease your passage through your career, and through your life.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 18, 2024
  • 33 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Better Mental Health through Embodiment

In this Mental Health Mondays post, we look at the construct of embodiment and practices within it that create a symbiotic relationship between embodied experiences and psychological flourishing.

  • By Danielle Feger, Briony Fane
  • May 28, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Results of the 4th Annual SSP Professional Skills Survey

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Career Development Committee is pleased to announce the 4th annual Professional Skills Survey and updated Professional Skills Map.

  • By Kate Heaney, Mandy Brannon, Jacklyn Lord, Cason Lynley
  • May 22, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays:  Leading with Mental Health Awareness

The work of mental health awareness begins with an analysis of your approach to leadership and a concerted investment in creating the conditions for others to thrive.

  • By Lily Garcia Walton
  • May 20, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Reconnecting by Reading: A Selection of Books About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Part 1

We learn from each other and about each other through reading. Today part 1 of 2 where we have asked members of the SSP community to recommend books about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility matters.

  • By Damita Snow
  • May 15, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Speak Finance: Gain University Support for Open Scholarship

The federal government is mandating that the knowledge and data produced from federal grants be widely available for our collective good. Libraries remain under-resourced to make this happen. Let’s add some new metrics and language to this narrative to help articulate the value of libraries.

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Apr 9, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Stephanie Orphan of arXiv

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Stephanie Orphan, Program Director of arXiv, the e-print repository.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jan 23, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.

  • By Joseph Esposito, Tim Vines, Todd A Carpenter, Roy Kaufman
  • Nov 30, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Being Your Whole Self: Disability and Neurodivergency

With all the intricacies of intersectionality – gender, ethnicity, disability, neurodivergency, mental health, and other identifiers – how can we be true to our whole self while also being authentic as our work-selves in our day-to-day roles?

  • By Juanita Goossens-Roach
  • Nov 20, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

From a “Ghost Library” to a “Window on the Big World”: The Story of Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Wellington Central Library

What do you do when the building standards governing the safety of your workplace are deemed inadequate?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Sep 8, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Digital Humanities, Data Literacy Skills and AI: Understanding the Way Things Work

New data literacy and artificial literacy standards are necessary and emerging. The workflows and iterative mindsets the Digital Humanities can help inform our approaches.

  • By Jess Ludwig
  • Aug 10, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Students Need to Learn How to Read Scholarly Articles: Here’s How Technology Can Help

A new collaboration between JSTOR and the social annotation tool Hypothesis has seen more instructional uses of content and greater engagement among students with the material.

  • By Jeremy Dean, Alex Humphreys
  • Jul 11, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Do Libraries Still Dream Unified Dreams? Part 2

Today’s post looks at loosely coupled software and services that together could be used to create a modular library system. What are the merits, and flaws, of such an approach and what can libraries (and technology providers) do to remedy some of the less desired effects of such strategies?

  • By Andreas Mace
  • May 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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