NITLE Summit

The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Supporting Faculty Research in the Liberal Arts College

NITLE Summit 2010: Keynote Address Kathleen Fitzpatrick Associate Professor of English and Media Studies, Pomona College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my forthcoming book, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, I analyze the current crisis in scholarly publishing and project its digital future, focusing on the kinds of social and institutional changes that will be required across US colleges and universities in order for that future to come to fruition. Among those necessary changes, I argue, will be profound shifts in the ways that we approach peer review, transformations in our conceptions of authorship, revisions in the structures of scholarly texts, increased attention to preservation in our libraries, and new partnerships among libraries, presses, and information technology departments in thinking about the place of publishing within the university infrastructure.

Those last structural changes are perhaps the most important for us to consider in the NITLE context, as these changes will affect not just those universities that house scholarly presses, but all institutions whose faculties conduct and publish the results of their research. Every institution, I argue in Planned Obsolescence, will be called upon to develop a scholarly publishing strategy, and especially in small liberal arts colleges, IT departments will be called upon to implement and support this strategy.

This talk will serve both as an introduction to the issues facing scholarly publishing today, particularly in the humanities, and a means to begin a discussion about the ways that IT departments can work with their college libraries, and with consortia like NITLE, to help support their faculty's publishing needs in the coming years.

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Emerging Technologies on the Liberal Arts Campus: A Survey of Two Technologies in Use

NITLE Summit 2010: Plenary Presentation Bryan Alexander Director of Research, NITLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The question of how to understand and best use emerging technologies is crucial for liberal arts colleges and universities. In this presentation Bryan Alexander will explore two fields of emerging technology: 1) gaming and teaching, and 2) mobile device usage. He will focus on the ways small colleges meet a complex mix of challenges that these technologies pose: developing pedagogies, selecting software and devices from a variety of choices, learning about practices, identifying populations, growing collaborations, grappling with assessment, and building support strategies.