Re: [c4lj-articles] Re: C4LJ EC recruitment process
Ed Summers
and a checklist of places to make the announcement:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_Recruit_New_Editors
Please feel free to edit, or discuss there. Other options for the
announcement text can be put into the page as well. Can we set a
deadline for making the announcement? Or maybe we should just send it
today?
//Ed
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Carol Bean <bean...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I've been waiting to see if anyone else would chime in. I think the fact that no one did until you sent this reminder is pretty indicative of our current collective malaise. There will always be work and personal stuff competing for our time, but it seems like there was a lot more eagerness among us in the past. So, once again, I am going to argue for not just 2 or 3, but 5 or 6 editors be added. There will inevitably be a few (possibly some of us) in the next year who will bow out because it's more time than they can afford any more. I would rather have 15 editors so losing a couple is not such a big deal.
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> +1 for personal solicitations, and contacting applicants who did not make the cut in previous calls. I know I successfully did that for one of our previous calls.
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> +1 for a (relatively) quick timeline. Keep in mind, crunch time for the next issue is coming up, so this should probably be done yesterday. :-)
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> The rest sounds good to me.
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> On a side note, I'm in D.C. till March next year. The State Department thinks they can teach me Serbo-Croatian in 5 months (September to February), and then will send me over to the Balkans for 2 years, to connect with all the libraries over there.
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> Carol
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> On Apr 5, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Kelley McGrath wrote:
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>> Does nobody have anything to say about this?
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>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Kelley McGrath <kmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just finished giving a webinar on cataloging kits and
>>> three-dimensional objects with RDA so am a bit brain dead. Here's
>>> hoping this will make sense.
>>>
>>> I thought Google was supposed to be good at search, but Google Groups
>>> certainly isn't. However, sorting by date and hunting through the
>>> spam, I found Andrew's thread:
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/browse_thread/thread/15cc401d56c9f565
>>>
>>> The call for editors that we eventually made is at
>>> http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/archive/2010/201002/0246.html
>>>
>>> Questions to decide:
>>>
>>> 1. Timeline: 3 weeks from call to application deadline then 10-14 days
>>> to vote? Too long? Too short?
>>>
>>> 2. Wording of letter: I think what Andrew sent last time is fine other
>>> than the deadline and the reference to the conference in the last
>>> paragraph, but am open to suggestions
>>>
>>> 3. Where to post: Code4Lib list, c4lj-discuss It was also suggested
>>> that editors could talk individually to people they think would be
>>> good candidates
>>>
>>> 4. Voting: The system we used last time was that each editor gave each
>>> applicant a score from 0 to 3 and then we added them up. IIRC it
>>> worked all right, but what does everyone else think?
>>>
>>> 5. Contacting applicants that we turned down last time: We did this
>>> last time with applicants from the prior round. We had too many
>>> qualified applicants last time and had to turn some down so we could
>>> re-contact the almost-rans (not the zero votes). Or maybe we wait and
>>> just do this if it looks like we're not getting a lot of applicants.
>>>
>>> 6. Number of new editors: This seems to have been the most
>>> controversial part of the previous discussion. Last time we generally
>>> agreed that we needed a target range. We need at least two new editors
>>> to replace Emily and Tim M. There is a tension between being stretched
>>> to thin and having too many cooks or a diffusion of responsibility. We
>>> do seem to be getting more and more submissions. However, it's not
>>> clear whether that means that we should publish more articles or that
>>> we should get pickier (with the idea that people can only absorb so
>>> much content). Last time it looks like we targeted 1-3 and accepted 5.
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> For the mechanics, I will make a new Google docs spreadsheet so only
>>> the people currently on the EC have access. There was reference in the
>>> thread to some form letters of acknowledgement, etc., but I don't seem
>>> to have access to them. Do you have them Andrew or does anyone else?
>>> Actually, there does seem to be a thread on acceptance letters at
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/browse_thread/thread/40660095145f35e5
>>>
>>> Kelley
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