Commonplace

Pivoting to an Open & Engaged Model for Smaller Academic Libraries before the Cliff Forces Our Hand 19.09.2024 ↓

🗣️ Discuss: A new mission and model for academic libraries is needed and a more open and automated future holds much promise for libraries willing to embrace a socially-driven future in a vastly more accessible and open scholarly realm.

Meta-Experiment on Peer Review 10.07.2024 ↓

And a call for submissions for Commonplace Series 4.1. Submissions Due: September 20, 2024.

Hedgerows in the Sky 30.05.2024 ↓

Evaluating "The Commons" in digital and agricultural contexts

What Can Libraries Learn From Campus DEI Goals? 01.05.2024 ↓

Identifying opportunities, values, and community at NC State University

Towards 'Flourishing Studies': A network lens onto flourishing 29.04.2024 ↓

How networks substantiate what flourishing is and offer ways to study it

On Silicon Seals and Scarlet Tokens 15.04.2024 ↓

In a world of LLMs, how are we to prove that the words we claim as our own were not prompted by the push of a button?

A Conversation: The Exodus of Faculty Librarians of Color from the California State University System 11.03.2024 ↓

🎧 Three former CSU librarians reflect on their experiences on the tenure-track system, life as LoCs, and explore the data and responses of an information gathering study on the lived experiences of other CSU LoCs.

Art and Design Pub[Pub] Crawl 05.12.2023 ↓

A webinar recording

5 Things with Research Associate Michael Dunn, CAPAS 31.10.2023 ↓

On Navigating the Ends of Worlds in October

Ancestral Intelligence: The AI We Need 30.10.2023 ↓

As we wonder how to create and sustain empowering frameworks for AI, the answer could be found in another kind of AI. 

Transforming a Renewal Agreement into an Equitable Licensing Deal 30.10.2023 ↓

🎧 A publisher, a director of a library consortia, and a digital collections librarian walk into a deal. No joke! In this podcast, we hear how NERL and Sage came to a licensing agreement (47 minutes with transcript).

💕✨Towards a Positive Internet✨💕 10.10.2023 ↓

The online experience wasn't always one of Big Tech and "internet trash." What aspects of contemporary digital platforms preserve creativity and community and which need reformed?

5 Things with Katherine Fata, PubPub production editor 28.09.2023 ↓

On surprises, striving, and books to read

The Digital Spaces We Want  31.08.2023 ↓

An interactive chat around the campfire about what makes online environments feel alive, fun, and welcoming.