Comments on: Getting Your Ideas Out There First http://acrlog.org/2008/09/25/getting-your-ideas-out-there-first/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jan Eelco de Vries http://acrlog.org/2008/09/25/getting-your-ideas-out-there-first/comment-page-1/#comment-113484 Jan Eelco de Vries Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:58:37 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1002#comment-113484 I do agree with your statement [...Sometimes just talking over a writing hurdle can be a big help. ... just by listening to their ideas and then sharing some advice or steering them in a certain direction] I am not a member of ACRL yet, but I I wasn't aware of the Personal Writing Coach that ACRL has to offer. Regards, Jan Eelco I do agree with your statement [...Sometimes just talking over a writing hurdle can be a big help. ... just by listening to their ideas and then sharing some advice or steering them in a certain direction]
I am not a member of ACRL yet, but I I wasn’t aware of the Personal Writing Coach that ACRL has to offer. Regards, Jan Eelco

]]> By: Emily http://acrlog.org/2008/09/25/getting-your-ideas-out-there-first/comment-page-1/#comment-102156 Emily Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:52:18 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1002#comment-102156 I've heard my faculty friends--you know, the REAL faculty, ha ha--express great dismay when books are published on their areas of research and I've always been kind of confused about that. Don't you like knowing that you're not all alone in the world? That your ideas aren't happening in a vacuum? Writing and thinking are ultimately such enormously solitary processes that I would think finding kindred spirits asking your same questions would be like finding a gold mine, or the right descriptor in Sociological Abstracts for your obscure critical theoretical research question. As a librarian, used to collating like with like, I am always pleased as punch to find like minds. Since none of us is really getting paid for our professional writing, and since my book doesn't trump your book in a market this tiny and specialized, why does it upset people so much to find themselves in good company? (I also used the 'good company' argument to console myself upon my own panel rejection from ACRL!) I’ve heard my faculty friends–you know, the REAL faculty, ha ha–express great dismay when books are published on their areas of research and I’ve always been kind of confused about that. Don’t you like knowing that you’re not all alone in the world? That your ideas aren’t happening in a vacuum? Writing and thinking are ultimately such enormously solitary processes that I would think finding kindred spirits asking your same questions would be like finding a gold mine, or the right descriptor in Sociological Abstracts for your obscure critical theoretical research question. As a librarian, used to collating like with like, I am always pleased as punch to find like minds. Since none of us is really getting paid for our professional writing, and since my book doesn’t trump your book in a market this tiny and specialized, why does it upset people so much to find themselves in good company?

(I also used the ‘good company’ argument to console myself upon my own panel rejection from ACRL!)

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