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Who Will Referee the Referee? — The ACS As Publisher and “Approver”
"How big a deal is this? The conflict of interest is blatant in the case of Chemical Abstracts and Journal of Chemical Education, and it is somewhat subtler in regard to the “Highly Recommended” journal list, 63% of which is comprised of ACS titles. But in both cases the conflict is real, and seems to have gone largely (though not entirely) without public comment up until now. It may be that ACS is handling these conflicts honorably, but how can we know for certain? At the very least, this issue seems to bear more and wider discussion."

Check out http://www.agiat-forum.org/

You may already be familiar with The Taiga Forum, it's a community of AULs and ADs challenging the traditional boundaries in libraries. The Taiga Forum meets annually.

So, Taiga Forum Provocative Statements. When they come out, there’s a crowd that shrieks in frustration at them, every single time. Well, now it’s been 5 years since their first batch… How’d they do? The Agiat Forum is going to score them. If they’re both right and wrong in the same statement, they get 0 points. If they knocked it out of the park, they get one point. If they’re so wrong it’s baffling, they get -1.

Total Taiga Score from 2006, out of a possible 15: -1
They fail: Wrong more often than right. So. There’s one woman’s fast pass at this. What do YOU think? How did Taiga do 5 years ago? Do you hate them less? More? Are you ambivalent? Why?

Report from ACRL 2011 in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
By Jennifer Howard
"How do you take the measure of academic libraries and librarians? At the Association of College and Research Libraries conference, which began here Wednesday, presenters took up the problem of how libraries can demonstrate their value to their institutions—and whether conventional attempts to measure return on investment, or "ROI," are any use in that campaign.

Like most of academe, libraries have been feeling increased pressure to justify themselves quantitatively. The bold title of James G. Neal's paper—"Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success"—indicated where its author stands on the issue. ..." Read the rest here

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