Against the Grain - The Podcast

Today's episode features a conversation with Emily Poznanski , Director of the Central European University Press. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Emily is currently based out of Vienna. Prior to her current position at the Central European University Press, she worked at a fully open...

Audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the session titled "On the Open Access Road Again: Is the value of the big deal declining?" presented by Michael Levine-Clark , Dean of Libraries, University of Denver; John McDonald , Director of Product Management, Assessment & Analytics, EBSCO Information Services; and Jason Price , Research & Scholarly Communication Director, SCELC Library...

Today's episode features a conversation with Jim O'Donnell , University Librarian, Arizona State University. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.   Jim O'Donnell was a longstanding academic and professor of classics before becoming University Librarian at Arizona State University in 2015. ...

This week's episode has audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the "Long Arm of the Law" session, presented by Kevin Smith , Dean of Libraries and Director of the University Press, University of Kansas and Lila Bailey , Policy Council for the Internet Archive, and moderated by Ann Okerson , Senior Advisor, CRL.  The Long Arm Panel focuses each year on serious legal topics for the i...

This episode is the Keynote Address from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference, titled "How to Think Like a Civilization" Presented by Paul Saffo , Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University, and moderated by Michael Keller , Vice Provost, Academic Council, Stanford University Library. Paul says we live in a moment when the institutions most needed to tackle our global problems are disso...

Today's audio is from a Keynote Address from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference, titled "Think Different" Presented by Joy Connolly , President, American Council of Learned Societies, and moderated by Jim O'Donnell , University Librarian, Arizona State University. Today, thanks to the gradual democratization of the university and the explosion of digital technology, knowledge (or at least info...

In this episode, Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, and Tom Gilson , Associate Editor of Against the Grain, enjoy a conversation with Jay Flynn , Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research, at Wiley and Sven Fund , Managing Director at Knowledge Unlatched. Their talk includes topics surrounding the recent acquisition of KU by Wiley: their shared dedication to open ac...

Today's episode features a conversation with Leah Hinds , Executive Director, The Charleston Hub. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Leah Hinds is the Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, which includes the Charleston Conference, Against the Grain , and other publications.  This is...

In this episode, Leah Hinds , Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, and Tom Gilson , Associate Director of Against the Grain, interview Lauren Kane , who is the incoming President and CEO of BioOne. Topics of conversation run from Lauren's background and previous experience, early plans and goals for her new role, the issues and challenges facing small, non-profit scholarly publishers, and muc...

Today's episode features a conversation with Scott William s, Vice President for Technology and Platform, De Gruyter. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Scott is currently in his third year of working in academic publishing at De Gruyter.  His background is in startups, digital transform...

Today's episode features a conversation with Robin Dougherty , Librarian for Middle East Studies, and Interim Librarian for African Studies at Yale University. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Robin has been a librarian for 26 years, the last 10 of those being spent at Yale.  Robin's f...

Today's episode features a conversation with Lettie Conrad , Product R&D Consultant. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Lettie brings 20 years' experience in professional and scholarly publishing to her diverse portfolio of product research and development projects. She is dedicated to h...

This episode features Leah Hinds , Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, and Tom Gilson , Associate Editor for Against the Grain, as they interview  Steve Fallon , Vice President, Americas and Strategic Partnerships at De Gruyter. The conversation follows topics surrounding the University Press Library Collaborative, a meeting with the purpose of providing stakeholders a platform to discuss co...

Today's episode features a conversation with Juliane Schneide r, Senior Bioinformatics Analyst and Data Liaison at Sage Bionetworks. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Juliane obtained a dual degree in Library Science and Information Systems from Drexel University. This training, and her...

In today's episode we feature audio from a Lively Discussion from the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, titled "Serials Crisis: Can data help treat this chronic condition?" Presented by Lori Carlin , Chief Commercial Officer, Delta Think, Inc.; Keith Webster , Dean of University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University; Michele Potter , Collection Strategist for Science, Technology, Engineering & M...

Audio from a Concurrent Session of the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Sharla Lair , Strategist, Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives, Lyrasis; Sara Rouhi , Director, Strategic Partnerships, PLOS; and Maurice York , Director of Library Initiatives, Big Ten Academic Alliance. Library consortia and publishers of OA-native content are collaboratively exploring new business...

Today's episode features a conversation with Max Mosterd , Head of Operations and Analytics, Knowledge Unlatched. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Max received a Master of Science at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He founded a startup, published on bibliometrics and wrote his MA thesis...

Today's episode features a conversation with Jill Heinze , Saddle-Stitch Marketing. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Jill began her career in the library at Virginia Commonwealth University as an outreach person to target and engage undergraduate audiences.  Afterwards she studied mark...

Today's episode features a conversation with Peter McCracken , Electronic Resources Librarian, Cornell University. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Peter received a library degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then a master's in maritime history from East Carolina U...

Today's episode features a conversation with Laura Dawson , Head of Data Quality for EDO, Inc.. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Laura has been working with metadata since 1995, mostly focused on metadata about books and publishing, then video. She ran a consulting agency for seven yea...

Today's episode features audio from a session at the 2020 Charleston Conference titled "Licensing: 'Beastly Breakfast' Roundtable Discussion" led by Adam Chesler , Director, Global Sales, AIP Publishing. This discussion will include topics such as: Who handles licensing at your institution? Procurement? General counsel?  A designated person in the library?  What is the library's role? How do you a...

Today's episode features Audio from a Lively Discussion at the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, "Research Librarians and Society Publishers Working Together to Advance OA and Research." Speakers are Judith Russell , Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida; Rod Cookson , Managing Director, IWA Publishing; Alicia Wise , Director, Information Power; and Gaynor Redvers-Mutton , Head of...

In today's episode, Tom Gilson , Associate Editor for Against the Grain, talks with Erika Valenti , North American Regional Director, Executive Vice President, Emerald Publishing as part of the "Views from the Penthouse Suite" series for the 2020 Charleston Library Conference. Erika Valenti is Executive Vice President, North America for Emerald Publishing where she directs all aspects of the compa...

Today's episode features a conversation with David Durant . The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  David Durant is Associate Professor and Federal Documents and Social Sciences Librarian at East Carolina University. He has a Master of Science degree in library and information services from t...

Today's episode features a conversation with Anthony Watkinson . The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail , Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Anthony Watkinson is cofounder of CIBER Research and a former publishing executive. Anthony began his education as an Ecclesiastical historian studying the Church of England in the 19th ce...