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Incoming Editor's Column: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strain)

Highlights

  • I’m writing this in late September, as the Boston Red Sox attempt to back their way into the Major League Baseball postseason after blowing a 9-game lead over Tampa Bay in a major-league September meltdown of epic proportions. [Red Sox fans are prone to hyperbole, but in this case no hyperbole is needed: this meltdown really is epic.] It’s down to the last game of the season, and like many Red Sox fans, I’m hopeful but not optimistic

  • In his inaugural editorial for ITAL in March 2005, -incoming editor John Webb articulated a number of worthy goals for ITAL, to both broaden and deepen the content of the journal and the demographic of the authors contributing to it

  • Anyone who has observed the struggles of the newspaper industry in recent years or been involved in the shift towards e-only in the world of academic/scholarly journals will not be surprised to learn that, in the intervening years since John wrote his column and ITAL has continued in print plus electronic form, revenues have steadily declined while production and distribution costs have not, resulting in an increasing annual subsidy from ALA/LITA to support the publication

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[Red Sox fans are prone to hyperbole, but in this case no hyperbole is needed: this meltdown really is epic.] It’s down to the last game of the season, and like many Red Sox fans, I’m hopeful but not optimistic. The fate of the 2011 Red Sox will be old news by the time this appears in print, though: as I’m coming to learn, the wheels of scholarly publishing continue to turn ever so slowly, unless forced to do otherwise.

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