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I have two whole weeks booked in May for writing
It feels very decadent of me, but I’m taking 2 weeks off in May to devote exclusively to writing. Brad will even be gone for most of it to a conference so I’ll really be able to go crazy writing. I can’t wait!
I’m being very strategic about taking this time off. First, [...]
I think my blogging could be the foundation of a prolific writing career
I’m halfway through a new favourite book of mine (Write to the Top!: How to Become a Prolific Academic
by W. Brad Johnson and Carol A. Mullen) and I came across this paragraph that summed up for me why I’m not taking a certain professor’s advice to quit blogging:
“[K]eeping a journal of creative contemplation about [...]
Top journals in LIS, in my interest area, ranked by Impact Factor
I admit that I don’t totally understand Impact Factor only because it’s not an issue when one is a librarian at a community college in the North. We evaluate periodicals on different factors than their high-ranking within a profession. Plus, I’ve come to the conclusion that which journal an article is published in [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 28th, 2009 under Laurie speaks!, Writings | Comment now »Generating ideas for possible thesis statements to argue in possible articles
I’m working away, sometimes alone, sometimes with a co-author, on brainstorming many ideas for possible articles for writing and publishing. I get the impression a few of you are joining me on this journey. So, I thought I’d share with you some of the questions I’m asking myself to think of possible journal [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 27th, 2009 under Brainstorming, Laurie speaks! | 2 Comments »Peer-Review Journals in LIS that I’d like to publish in
Reviewing the various feedback out there, I’ve come to the conclusion that for right now, I have to do what I can to publish in the more established LIS journals out there. I need to think like an application review committee and it sounds like what they want to see are applicants with articles [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 24th, 2009 under Laurie speaks!, Writings | 1 Comment »Pamphlet on publishing in LIS journals
As I was looking through various journals in which I could publish possible journals, I came across this fabulous 8 page pamphlet on publishing in LIS journals and would highly recommend it to you too!
How to Get Published in LIS Journals: A Practical Guide (PDF)
A Form to record my ideas for possible articles
As I keep my eyes and ears open for possible ideas for journal articles, I’m realizing how easy it would be to lose track of all these “brilliant” ideas. So, I’ve spent some time and designed a one page form to track these ideas so I can keep a running file.
Somehow my [...]
Back from the BC Library Conference and full of writing ideas
I’m back from Burnaby and the BC Library Conference and I have all these ideas for possible research and writing opportunities.
One thing became clear to me, probably because for the first time I was thinking about it, but we as a profession talk about all these important things happening in our profession and [...]
Being a Librarian really isn’t meant for introverts
Just finished perusing this book…
200 Best Jobs For Introverts
(2007) / by Editors at JIST/Lawrence Shatkin
And I thought you’d like to know that Librarian was NOT listed as anywhere. Archivists, historians, and records managers were all recommended professions for introverts, but not librarians.
See! This is not a good profession to enter if [...]
*sniff* I have a cold
I knew it, the second I was done working two jobs I get sick. How typical!
If I don’t post much for the next couple days, I’m sorry.
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