Katina Strauch’s memoir, Doing the Charleston, which will be published this week, tells the story of her career in librarianship alongside the history of the Charleston Conference, which she founded in 1980. In this excerpt, she looks ahead to the future of libraries. As Katina puts it, many will disagree, and that’s okay!
Today more content is available open access than ever before. But this datapoint isn’t the whole story.
Open Syllabus Analytics is a one-of-a-kind resource that offers promising analysis of millions of syllabi. But the execution disappoints.
As Portland Press transitions to Subscribe to Open, we are rethinking how to measure and report usage so we can demonstrate that open access—and the spending of the libraries that support it—is improving the global reach of our articles.
Clarivate’s “transformative subscription-based strategy” caught the library world flat-footed. How did this happen? And where do we go from here?
The impacts of funding cuts to research in the US extend far beyond their immediate targets. We see a chain reaction that could indelibly alter the education and research landscape, including the future of open and sustainable research.
The Trump administration has launched an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress. We must act now, together.
Katina is a digital publication that addresses the value of librarians to society and elevates their role as trusted stewards of knowledge. Published by Annual Reviews as part of the Charleston Hub.
