Free ideas

Looking for a journal article to write? Need some promotion fodder? Just bored and finding yourself with some spare time? You can have these free:

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  How about some in-depth interviews with a small group of editorial board members: some from non-profit publishers, some from commercial publishers, talking about what they do, how they relate to the publisher, what they get out of it, what services
  publisher offer to them, their attitudes toward the publishing process. Sort of a 'current state of scholarly communication' from the production side of things. Too often we only hear the library's point of view on these issues.



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  Is scanning historic photographs a particularly post-modern excercise? It seems like such a weird thing to be doing: the projects don't seem to be engaging in any actual knowledge production. Sure, preservation re-formatting and wider audiences for specialized collections are valuable in and of themselves, but I'm wondering if someone can take a theoretical view of this whole enterprise.



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  Were serials exchange programs ever a big part of folks' collections? If we go back and examine them, will we find that they relate to institutional repositories? Are their lessons to be learned from this mostly abandoned library practice?



• Someone please study hegemony in LIS research: why are there so few really new entrants into the debate? There's so much interesting work going on that seems relevant to the LIS community (such as here and here). Why don't these memes get picked up in my community?