 |
 |
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > So I've received 2 out of 4 "conference reviews" from scholarship > attendees. Actually, there are only 3. One awardee could not attend. > Will be sent in two subsequent messages to list, to not go over maximum > message size. > I am personally NOT very happy with them, not sure if I'm interested in > publishing them or not. They unfortunately the kind of "what I did on my > Code4Lib Summer Vacation" articles that I was trying to discourage, I'm not > sure whether they are actually useful for our journal audience? > > Somehow last year I succeeded in encouraging the scholarship recipients to > avoid this kind of thing and write something actually interesting for a > general audience. This year, not so much. In part, this may be that i had > less time to spend on it, and wasn't as careful with my communications with > the invitees. I think that initially telling the recipients that their > required report for the scholarship committee and their article in C4LJ are > the same thing didn't help either. > Sorry--that's what we've done in past years. Though we were a bit more upfront about it in communication this year. Feel free to solicit something else. > > But I'm not sure what to do at this point. I would really appreciate > someone else taking a look at these reviews, and giving some feedback on > whether the journal should publish them at all -- or maybe skip the "reviews > from scholarship awardees" this year? Or something else? > Of the other 2 outstanding, one is promissed by the author for today, the > other I haven't heard from the author, so assume it's not coming. > > Jonathan >