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(Please excuse cross-posting) *Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education* Writing for Publication February 1 - 28, 2010 $250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200) PDPs: 15 The "publish or perish" syndrome is one of the most difficult aspects of academic life, especially for librarians, who often don't receive adequate support from their institutions. Besides the obvious benefits of promotion and tenure, publishing in academic journals can help make your work known within the library profession and lead to other projects, such as book contracts or further collaboration with professional colleagues. This course will teach you strategies and techniques that can help you get published. In the first part of the course, we will discuss the publishing cycle from article submission to the final step of signing an author contract. The second part of the course will focus on how to take an idea and develop it into a publishable article. Some of the topics addressed in this section will be: structuring an article to fit the style guide of a journal, the importance of doing a literature review, and strategies for time management and garnering institutional support. The last section of course will discuss strategies for getting work published. Some of the topics addressed will be: how to pick the right venue, why an article is accepted or rejected for publication, and how to rewrite an article to satisfy an editor's or a peer-reviewer's objections. Students are expected to have begun or to be thinking about an article-length work for publication. Instructor: Marta Deyrup is an associate professor/librarian II at Seton Hall University Libraries. She is the author/editor of three books and has written scholarly articles, news pieces, interviews, and book reviews for publications that include Library Administration & Management, College & Research Libraries,Technical Services Quarterly, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Slavic and East European Journal, and Slavic and Eastern European Information Resources. She is on the editorial board of Technical Services Quarterly and is the former editor of Library Administration & Management. Marta received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and her M.L.S. from Rutgers SCILS; [log in to unmask] For more information about our online workshops see http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/faq.php#faq1432 *************************************** For additional information or to register see http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/register.php or contact [log in to unmask] -- Kris Liberman '87LS Program Manager Simmons GSLIS CE T - 617-521-2803 F - 617-521-3192 [log in to unmask] http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/index.php