{"id":16957,"date":"2024-10-04T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/?p=16957"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:40:26","slug":"call-for-submissions-biz-of-digital-column-in-upcoming-issues-of-against-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/call-for-submissions-biz-of-digital-column-in-upcoming-issues-of-against-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions: \u201cBiz of Digital\u201d Column in Upcoming Issues of Against the Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(via Michelle Flinchbaugh\u2013University of Maryland, Baltimore County)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBiz of Digital\u201d is a column in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.against-the-grain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Against the Grain<\/a><\/em>. It features discussions by working librarians on digital collections, digital repositories, digital scholarship, data services, and technology. Its audience is librarians in all types of libraries and vendors of products, services, and systems that support library digital services. Its focus is on current practices, techniques, processes, and information on events in the field.\u00a0<em>Against the Grain\u00a0<\/em>is a down-to-earth, practice-orientated library journal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ideas for upcoming \u201cBiz of Digital\u201d articles include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Planning for data services\/reorganizing data services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A description of the services that you\/your Library provides<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Courses, workshops, or presentation on data you\u2019ve taught and the level of success you\u2019ve had<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Projects that you\u2019ve participated in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supporting geospatial data and digital mapping in the library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Managing a data management and visualization center or lab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data acquisition, integration, analysis, and visualization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data mining<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Infrastructure and services for big data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How you use the FAIR data principals\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to choose any of these topics, or one of your own. Theoretical articles, research reports, \u201chow-to\u201d articles, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual or opinion pieces are welcome. Article length should be approximately 1200-1500 words (4-5 pages, double-spaced).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contributions may be written by individuals or co-authored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in writing&nbsp;for the&nbsp;\u201cBiz of Digital\u201d column, please contact the Editor, Michelle Flinchbaugh, at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20241107001543\/mailto:flinchba@umbc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flinchba@umbc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Michelle Flinchbaugh\u2013University of Maryland, Baltimore County) \u201cBiz of Digital\u201d is a column in\u00a0Against the Grain. It features discussions by working librarians on digital collections, digital repositories, digital scholarship, data services, and technology. Its audience is librarians in all types of libraries and vendors of products, services, and systems that support library digital services. 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