{"id":6212,"date":"2014-11-20T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/transitions\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2014-11-20T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:18:27","slug":"reflections-from-a-librarian-on-the-tenure-clock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/11\/20\/reflections-from-a-librarian-on-the-tenure-clock-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections from a librarian on the tenure clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Farkas has a popular feature in American Libraries magazine in which she often talks about technology and libraries. She is also a faculty librarian at Portland Community College\u00a0in Oregon. In a<a title=\"post from last year\" href=\"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/23\/opening-up-knowledge-on-the-tenure-track\/\"> post from last year<\/a>, she highlights that most of her scholarly research is publicly available:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666\">&#8220;But, you know what? You can\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0088cc\" href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/meredith_farkas\/\" >find all of my writing (other than what\u2019s on this blog) in PDXScholar<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666\">, our institutional repository (IR). Want to read my peer-reviewed articles? My\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #666666\">American Libraries<\/em><span style=\"color: #666666\">\u00a0columns from the past few years? The book chapters I\u2019ve written since 2008? They\u2019re all in there.\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0088cc\" href=\"http:\/\/collaborativelibrarianship.org\/index.php\/jocl\/article\/view\/250\" >My most recently article, co-authored with Lisa Hinchliffe and applying a management model to building a culture of assessment where librarians have faculty status<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666\">, is in an open access journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Throughout her blog post she talks about making the effort to have a copy of her work available to the general public.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666\">I just made a small amount of effort to make my scholarship open to all. I don\u2019t expect anyone to<strong> jeopardize tenure to make stuff more open [emphasise mine]<\/strong>, but it does disappoint me that people in our profession won\u2019t ask a publisher for permission or even take the time to put something in their IR that could benefit so many. Mostly I just don\u2019t understand why one wouldn\u2019t if they could.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With some effort, one may\u00a0publicly share work, and have a strong chance at\u00a0tenure too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Farkas has a popular feature in American Libraries magazine in which she often talks about technology and libraries. She is also a faculty librarian at Portland Community College&nbsp;in Oregon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}