Elsevier Trying to Mend Fences with Libraries
Elsevier seeks to build bridges
New era of co-operation called for by STM publisher
Information World Review
By Mark Chillingworth--> 10 Jun 2005
Very short article about how the new director of library relations at Elsevier, Tony McSean, admitts they need to repair relations with librarians and is seeking to do that.
It is not much of an article but it is interesting that perhaps somebody in the publishing world is waking up.
1 Comments:
I've known Tony for ten years, and he is a very experienced, very dedicated librarian. Although not as well known in the States, he is held in very high regard by his colleagues in the UK and Europe. While I remain somewhat sceptical about Elsevier's motivations in creating the position that he holds, I take it as a mark of their sincerity that they hired someone like Tony -- a man of great integrity who will not hesitate to speak his mind, either to his librarian colleagues or to his superiors at Elsevier. Naturally, his friends have ragged him relentlessly on "going over to the dark side" but he believes that librarians and the big publishers really do need to work as partners, and that he can do something to rebuild that trust. I think that if anyone can, it's going to be someone with the experience, skills, and honesty of Tony McSean. Oh, and he has an absolutely wicked sense of humor.
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