"It's rare that I find a library journal article so interesting!"

Home from BC and lots of catching up to do in terms of e-mail as well as other domestic chores. Back to work next Tuesday and the two weeks I had off for Pace’s birth have passed way too fast, especially with a three-day detour in the middle of it.

It was fitting that I ended up sitting beside two mothers on the flight home – one with an 11-month old and a 2 year old from Kelowna to Edmonton then a first-time-flying-with-kids mother with a 5-month old from Edmonton to Regina. You should’ve seen me swapping parenting tips and tricks like an old pro!

In other news, my article about

user fees in Alberta public libraries has just been published in the latest issue of Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

If you compare it to the original version, you’ll see how far it came through the revision process of the Partnership Journal.

I’ve said it before but it’s worth submitting an article to this journal, especially if you have ambitions to become an academic librarian someday. Some people probably don’t see an online publication as being as legitimate as a print one but if anything, I’d say that the editors are aware of this perception and are more stringent!

Quinn did a brief post with a link to a longer article recently exploring the subject of why publishing with open access journals is better than publishing via traditional methods.

(Oh, and the quote that gives this post its title is from an unsolicited e-mail a librarian I just met a couple weeks ago sent me after seeing my article. I’m expecting the hate mail from Alberta librarians to come flooding in any day soon so it was nice that my first feedback on the article was so positive.

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