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Item Alternative and Underground Comics: Interview with Caitlin McGurk(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Vieira, Scott; McGurk, CaitlinIn this installment of "Conversations," Caitlin McGurk, associate curator for outreach at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, discusses alternative and underground comics along with different aspects of her professional career in cartoon and comics librarianship.Item Conversations: The Open Libraries Project – Interview with Chris Freeland(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of “Conversations,” Chris Freeland, director for the Open Libraries project with the Internet Archive, discusses his work with the Open Libraries project and the National Emergency Library.Item COVID-19 and Innovation(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of "Conversations," multiple individuals share how they or their organizations have coped with COVID-19 and in some cases the innovations that have come from it.Item Cultural Anthropology and Open Access—Interview With Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and Marcel LaFlamme(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Vieira, Scott; Kipphut-Smith, ShannonIn this installment of “Conversations,” Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and Marcel LaFlamme, of the Cultural Anthropology editorial team, discuss the ins and outs of publishing a gold open access journal in the field of anthropology. Highlights of the discussion include Cultural Anthropology’s move to open access, the ethics of open access, the growth of international readership, ongoing publishing challenges in open access, and the role libraries can play with open access publishing.Item Decolonization and the Cambridge University Libraries—Interview with Mel Bach(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of “Conversations,” Mel Bach, head of collections and academic liaison at Cambridge University, discusses her work on decolonization within the Cambridge University Libraries. The discussion includes a history and description of the Decolonisation Working Group, including its membership and some of its earliest efforts.Item Disambiguating Author Names: Part Two(Taylor & Francis, 2016) Vieira, ScottAuthor identity is a challenging problem for automation systems working with bibliographic resources. ORCID author identifiers are perceived as a simple and effective way to address this problem, but in order to accomplish this, ORCID identifiers need widespread adoption by researchers, organizations, and bibliographic automation systems. This column, the second of two, surveys how some libraries, publishers, and other research organizations are using ORCID identifiers to address the problem of author identity across different systems and workflows.Item Fighting Digital Piracy in Publishing: Interview with Sari Frances and Lui Simpson(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of "Conversations," Sari Frances, manager of digital license compliance for IEEE, and Lui Simpson, vice president of global policy for the Association of American Publishers, discuss their work in protecting the intellectual property (IP) of publishers from digital piracy.Item GOKb: Opening Up the Knowledgebase(Taylor & Francis, 2016) Vieira, ScottThe Global Open Knowledgebase Project (GOKb) is providing an open, community-based solution to resource metadata curation. The project's success pivots between data accumulation and enhancement, quality control, open data, and community involvement. In the following, participants in the project respond to questions about where GOKb is today, its usefulness in current workflows, and GOKb's future.Item Open Access and the Changing Landscape for Library Acquisitions — Interview with Gregory T. Eow(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of “Conversations,” Gregory T. Eow, associate director for collections at MIT Libraries, shares his perspective on the changing landscape of library acquisitions.Item Reveal Digital and Open Access Digital Archives—Interview with Peggy Glahn(Taylor & Francis, 2022) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of “Conversations,” Peggy Glahn, associate director for Reveal Digital, discusses her work with JSTOR’s Reveal Digital, a nonprofit project to digitize primary sources and make them available via open access on the JSTOR platform. Glahn’s interview covers topics about Reveal Digital such as its history, funding model, collections, and what to expect regarding digitizing primary sources going forward.Item Subscription Agents: Problem Solving in the Middle(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Vieira, ScottSubscription agents provide a variety of intermediary services and products for libraries. Some of their functions include publication sourcing, order and invoice consolidation, providing publisher information, statistics and analysis, and software. In addition, they often work as change agents to the publishing landscape. The following article provides an overview of these many services from the perspective of a select group of subscription agents, librarians, and library staff. Subjects discussed include industry challenges, customer service, and the future relationship between subscription agents and libraries.Item The British Library’s Philatelic Collections – Interview With Richard Morel(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of “Conversations,” Richard Morel, curator of the British Library’s Philatelic Collections, discusses his professional background and the British Library’s Philatelic Collections, including its history, the collections’ holdings, its use by researchers, collection highlights, curation challenges, and the collections’ future.Item Working in Libraries for the United Nations—Interview with Carly Bachman(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of “Conversations,” Carly Bachman, chief librarian for the United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), discusses her work, including her past work for different regional libraries for the United Nations.