MindShift: Disruptive Scholarship Revisited

["Gerry Mckiernan" <gerrymck@iastate.edu>]

Apologies for Cross-Posting

Colleagues/

If you have not yet made plans to attend the ACRL 12th National Conference
in Minneapolis beginning later this week
[http://www.ala.org/acrlconftemplate1.html], you still have time to do so!

In addition to many opportunities to Listen-and-Learn from a variety of
pre-conferences, presentations and poster sessions

 http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/12thnatconf/acrlprogram/program.htm],

you could be among the select few to attend MySession in which I will
elaborate on my wiki-based vision/version of Scholarly Communication known
as Disruptive Scholarship

[http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0502/0003.html]

Sooooo** Please mark you ConferenceCalendar:

Pair Two |
Saturday, April 9, 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.; 200AB

Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving. In the age of
author self-archiving, there are forces, factors, and influences other
than pending classical peer review that can assure the quality of
scholarship before formal publication. Among these alternative approaches
are institutional review, 'critical peer response', 'action learning', and
Total Quality Scholarship. Gain an understanding of the strengths and
weaknesses of conventional peer review process and develop an awareness of
current and emerging alternative models to traditional peer review.
Presenter(s): Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University

[http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/12thnatconf/acrlprogram/contributedpapers/contributedpapers.htm]

NOTE: The emphasis will be on EMERGING!

BTW: If you are unable to attend the entire session, please don't
hesistate to stop by at the end to offer to buy me a beer [:-)

Be Prepared For A MIND SHIFT !!!

Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian 
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu 

http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com 
http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com