UA SLIS Alumni Day 2013

1. What We Wish We’d Known
about Publishing, Tenure or
Getting Promoted:
Lessons Learned
Beth Ashmore & Jodi Poe
24th Annual SLIS Alumni Day
Planting the Seeds: Growing your MLIS
October 11, 2013, 11:00 am

2. Lesson #1:When it comes to finding
topics for research, ask yourself:
How can I use some of my research from Library School?
What are my* problems? What are my* solutions?
What are my colleagues working on?

3. Lesson #2:
Collaboration is Good!
Never be afraid to hitch your wagon to a star

4. Lesson #3: Beating the
dead horse!
Take one idea and re-work it into several publishing
opportunities

5. Lesson #4: If you are a
quitter, invest in a
coach.
I only know this because I am a quitter.

6. Lesson #5: Read the entire
call for submissions and know
the deadlines!
Know what the journal needs
Don’t be afraid to submit your article to a journal just
because of the journal’s name
Know and do NOT miss deadlines

7. Lesson #6: You’re not
that bad a writer.
If you already know this, feel free to take this time to
write a short treatise on the sad state of writing
education in our country.

8. Lesson #7: Start small.
Be a reviewer of submissions for a journal
Review/evaluate materials for a journal

9. Lesson #8: Don’t fear
rejections.
It’s not personal; it’s business!
Hidden Lesson #9: Straight from an Editor: Know the
scope of the journal to which you are submitting

10. Lesson #10: Rapid-fire lessons!
Aim high!
Don’t be afraid of editors and editorial boards!
Peer review!
Your clock starts now!
Read your promotion and/or tenure document completely.
No, really, read your promotion and/or tenure document completely.
Documentation, documentation documentation.
Be a letter writer, or pay it forward.

11. Don’t Panic!
Ask for help.
Tenureclocky
By Lois Malone
Courtesy of the Annals of
Improbable Research
http://www.improbable.com/airchi
ves/paperair/volume7/v7i4/tenure
clocky.html