die. The “build it and they will come” proposition has been decisively proven wrong. Citation advantages and preservation have not at- tracted faculty participants, though current-generation software and services offer faculty little else. Academic librarianship has not sup- ported repositories or their managers. Most libraries consistently under-resource and understaff repositories, further worsening the Innkeeper at the Roach Motel Dorothea Salo
Initiative Dorothea Salo Faculty Associate, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison COMMENTARY Since Cli ord Lynch’s infamous call to arms (2003), ac- ademic libraries have been wasting their time trying to change the scholarly communication system on the fee- blest of rationalizations. Proper librarians know that the current system is obviously the most sustainable, since it’s lasted this long and provided so much bene t to librar- ies (Rogers, 2012a) and pro t to organizations as diverse as Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, and the American Chemical Society, as well as their CEOs (Berrett, 2012). Moreover, faculty have proclaimed loudly and clearly that selves in the shoes of abbot Johannes Trithemius, whose De laude scriptorum (1494) presciently railed against the damage that Gutenberg’s printing press would do to monasteries’ lucrative scriptoria. Protecting the con- tours of librarian employment is of paramount concern, especially given the manifest impossibility of retraining existing sta to cope with the complexities of copyright (Hirtle, Hudson, & Kenyon, 2009), outreach to faculty (Malenfant, 2010), and digital preservation (Digital Pres- ervation Coalition & University of London Computer
Initiative Dorothea Salo Faculty Associate, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison COMMENTARY Since Cli ord Lynch’s infamous call to arms (2003), ac- ademic libraries have been wasting their time trying to change the scholarly communication system on the fee- blest of rationalizations. Proper librarians know that the current system is obviously the most sustainable, since it’s lasted this long and provided so much bene t to librar- ies (Rogers, 2012a) and pro t to organizations as diverse as Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, and the American Chemical Society, as well as their CEOs (Berrett, 2012). Moreover, faculty have proclaimed loudly and clearly that selves in the shoes of abbot Johannes Trithemius, whose De laude scriptorum (1494) presciently railed against the damage that Gutenberg’s printing press would do to monasteries’ lucrative scriptoria. Protecting the con- tours of librarian employment is of paramount concern, especially given the manifest impossibility of retraining existing sta to cope with the complexities of copyright (Hirtle, Hudson, & Kenyon, 2009), outreach to faculty (Malenfant, 2010), and digital preservation (Digital Pres- ervation Coalition & University of London Computer
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Initiative Dorothea Salo Faculty Associate, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison COMMENTARY Since Cli ord Lynch’s infamous call to arms (2003), ac- ademic libraries have been wasting their time trying to change the scholarly communication system on the fee- blest of rationalizations. Proper librarians know that the current system is obviously the most sustainable, since it’s lasted this long and provided so much bene t to librar- ies (Rogers, 2012a) and pro t to organizations as diverse as Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, and the American Chemical Society, as well as their CEOs (Berrett, 2012). Moreover, faculty have proclaimed loudly and clearly that selves in the shoes of abbot Johannes Trithemius, whose De laude scriptorum (1494) presciently railed against the damage that Gutenberg’s printing press would do to monasteries’ lucrative scriptoria. Protecting the con- tours of librarian employment is of paramount concern, especially given the manifest impossibility of retraining existing sta to cope with the complexities of copyright (Hirtle, Hudson, & Kenyon, 2009), outreach to faculty (Malenfant, 2010), and digital preservation (Digital Pres- ervation Coalition & University of London Computer Please, please, PLEASE read and take it to heart.
Initiative Dorothea Salo Faculty Associate, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison COMMENTARY Since Cli ord Lynch’s infamous call to arms (2003), ac- ademic libraries have been wasting their time trying to change the scholarly communication system on the fee- blest of rationalizations. Proper librarians know that the current system is obviously the most sustainable, since it’s lasted this long and provided so much bene t to librar- ies (Rogers, 2012a) and pro t to organizations as diverse as Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, and the American Chemical Society, as well as their CEOs (Berrett, 2012). selves in the shoes of abbot Johannes Trithemius, whose De laude scriptorum (1494) presciently railed against the damage that Gutenberg’s printing press would do to monasteries’ lucrative scriptoria. Protecting the con- tours of librarian employment is of paramount concern, especially given the manifest impossibility of retraining existing sta to cope with the complexities of copyright (Hirtle, Hudson, & Kenyon, 2009), outreach to faculty (Malenfant, 2010), and digital preservation (Digital Pres- Do the opposite of anything suggests.
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