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Since 2021, the editors, reviewers, and authors behind the Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship (JCDL) have attempted to foster community around cultural heritage digital library work through open access and open peer review.
JCDL’s open peer review process puts authors in direct communication with their reviewers, thereby prioritizing rigorous dialogue and respect for contributors’ time. JCDL also aims to provide a venue for intellectual projects in a variety of formats, both traditional and innovative.
In this webinar, an editor, a reviewer, a writer, and an audio producer will share their successes and challenges navigating open peer review, as well as their reflections on the direction of academic publishing in LIS.
Presenter Info
Leah Duncan
Leah Duncan is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Davidson College, and the editor of the Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship. She holds a Ph.D. in English and an MLIS from Louisiana State University. As a member of Davidson’s Digital Learning & Scholarship team, she hopes to empower teachers and learners to make critically-informed decisions about leveraging technology in their scholarship.
Ben Chiewphasa
Ben B. Chiewphasa (he/him) is the Social Sciences and Policy Librarian at Columbia University Libraries, where he supports faculty and students through information literacy instruction, research support, and collection development for the School of International and Public Affairs and several social sciences departments. He publishes and presents on data literacy pedagogy, government information dissemination and access, and academic libraries as collaborators in community engagement. Ben holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Anthropology (Cultural Heritage) from the University of Montana, and a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology and Geosciences from Denison University.
Jeanine Finn
Jeanine Finn is a librarian at The Claremont Colleges and a visiting professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her teaching and research interests relate to the social and political uses of data sharing and information behavior in contested spaces. Jeanine earned her Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. in information science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kae Bara Kratcha
Kae Bara Kratcha is a librarian and oral historian based in Astoria, Queens. Their audio work is centered around queer and trans oral histories of the recent past and often explores themes of mutual aid, work, anti-capitalist business and organizational models, experiences of the internet and digital technologies, and speculative futures. Kae has worked in both public and academic libraries in New York City with a focus on programming, outreach, and instruction. Kae received their Masters in Library Science from Queens College (CUNY) and their Masters in Oral History from Columbia University.