tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13851370.post8950524740988664486..comments2023-09-28T10:51:30.990-05:00Comments on The Medium is the Message: Rethinking Scholarship in Academic LibrarianshipEric Schnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061075072474927902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13851370.post-54345745763956785712010-10-28T23:32:10.207-05:002010-10-28T23:32:10.207-05:00Dear Sir,
Greetings from Malaysia.
Am here to comm...Dear Sir,<br />Greetings from Malaysia.<br />Am here to comment on your statement "...In certain positions, seeking competitive grants and contracts is an essential responsibility, and success in this endeavor—particularly when the grants are highly competitive or peer-reviewed— is a evidence of achievement in scholarship..."<br /><br />How true, and am not in the know. I was developing an instument for my thesis on " Applying Boyer's scholarship model to academic Librarians role behavior" - I only so far read that librarians only come as far as research, teaching, information consulting and publishing - in their roles as supporting research. Now, that you mentioned 'seeking for grants" as another roles.Thanks for highlighting it.<br /><br />In Malaysia, academic librarians roles more or less are the same as their counterparts in other type of libraries. Only resently, when our Ministry of Higher education (MOHE) listed 5 universities as research universities, the librarians were (sort of ) awaken to prepare for an overhaul of roles and functions. Basically, we are ready to accept new tasks - which may mean more research related meetings, programs, and embracing the new (for most of us) jargons of research methods (In Malaysia, the academic librarians' promotion or tenure is not based on research or writings or publishing - we have exams and interviews instead.Khashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401585519729746944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13851370.post-1104196801721785842008-08-07T16:00:00.000-05:002008-08-07T16:00:00.000-05:00Indeed, the fundental change that resulted from th...Indeed, the fundental change that resulted from the OhioLink concept may not have had time to mature / age in short the 'tenure' clock. <BR/><BR/>Except in a few cases, faculty librarians have at least one additional level to achieve after tenure - full professor. There is no non-mandatory promotion clock. Byerly's concept would have time to age and the fundemental change that resulted from it would become clear. <BR/><BR/>The OhioLink concept may not have served him during the tenure process. It is so sigificant that it should warrant consideration as scholarship in subsequent academic promotions.Eric Schnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15061075072474927902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13851370.post-52385687106731452592008-08-07T14:21:00.000-05:002008-08-07T14:21:00.000-05:00Hope I shouldn't know this -- but how did libraria...Hope I shouldn't know this -- but how did librarians (and other faculty) get tenure in the days before journal publishing? Or have tenure and journal publishing grown up together?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13851370.post-40592398685167725722008-08-07T14:19:00.000-05:002008-08-07T14:19:00.000-05:00I wonder how quickly "work on steering committees,...I wonder how quickly "work on steering committees, funding agency panels and editorships where the outcome is a fundamental change in the field’s direction" can be evaluated? How often do fields "fundamentally change"? and can that change be seen in the time frame a librarian needs for tenure review? I suspect a "fundamentally changed" field, historically, is sort of a career achievement award rather than the 2 - 3 year time frame of tenure review committees.<BR/>Just one example -- Greg Byerly, in Ohio, one of the first to articulate the OhioLINK concept. Would a tenure committee have seen his early work in the 1990s as the "fundamental change" it has become? I don't think most of the librarians in Ohio's colleges and universities would have predicted what OhioLINK has become. But card catalogs are gone; journal articles rather than books or whole journals have become our commerce of choice; door counts have dropped as we have put the library in student dorms and hands. Certainly "fundamental change" from what librarianship was and expected itself to be in the late 1980s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com