It’s been a pleasure serving as Weave’s Editor-in-Chief the past four years! Weave: Journal of Library User Experience remains the only international, peer-reviewed, open access publication dedicated to user experience in libraries.
I worked with a stellar team, and wanted to share some of our accomplishments:
- Grew our staff to include new editors and editorial board members, and created a sustainable structure for ongoing appointments (job descriptions, term lengths, onboarding process). See the latest editorial team.
- Created an international advisory team of UXers working in libraries.
- Hosted our first Author Chats and Town Halls.
- Were the very first of Michigan Publishing’s journals to migrate to a new publishing platform (Janeway) for both our publications and website.
- Created a style guide for authors, including inclusive language requirements.
- Implemented an author name change policy. See ethical publishing guidelines.
- Became a CLIR Affiliate, giving us a sustainable financial home.
Congrats and thanks to the team that made all this possible! 🎉
Since I no longer work in libraries, I stepped down this summer. Through an internal recruitment process, Scott Young was appointed as my successor. Scott has been an author, peer reviewer, and editor for Weave, and brings depth of expertise in user experience research and assessment. He serves as the User Experience and Assessment Librarian at Montana State University. Biggest congrats to Scott on his appointment. The journal is in good hands.
I’ll continue to be an avid Weave supporter and reader. Join me and sign up to get issue announcements: http://eepurl.com/hEDAhD.