Changing Academic Librarianship Scholarship Criteria

Changing Academic Librarianship Scholarship Criteria: Eric Schnell is serving as the Chair of The University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Committee over at OSU. This post is one of many he expects to write on the topic over the next year. He’s been curious about the criteria used to define and evaluate scholarship in tenure and promotion cases.

“However, how can we ever expect faculty to push the innovation and emerging technology envelopes if the criteria we use to define and evaluate scholarship remains rooted in the dark ages of academia and librarianship?”