Tools for Early Career Professionals: Connect With Confidence

Publishing can be a tough industry to break into, and scholarly publishing can feel particularly insular and unwelcoming to newcomers. In response, many industry organizations provide mentorship/development programs to support early-career professionals. This session will provide viewers with the information and tools they need to identify and participate in mentoring programs and strategies to develop a replicable framework for career development. To frame our conversation, we will review SSP's Professional Survey and Skills Map to help viewers understand how to use the map. Panelists representing several mentorship programs will discuss how to get the best out of a mentor/mentee relationship, discuss approaches to developing your "elevator pitch," and share ideas for less formal networking. Viewers will hear from individuals who have participated in various programs to help further demystify how mentoring works and how it helped their careers. The session will run as a lightly scripted live podcast. || Learning Level: Mixed-Learning

SSP Annual Meeting Session Learning Level

Mixed-Learning

Publication Date

2022 | Jun 02

44th Annual Meeting (2022)

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“Building a More Connected Scholarly Community” The last 19+ months have been a fascinating contradiction, making us feel both painfully disconnected and also perhaps more bonded than ever before. How can we take the strengths we already possessed as a community, fold in lessons learned during the pandemic, and aim for being an even stronger, broader, and more connected community? Our Annual Meeting brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in the dissemination of scholarly information. We look forward to the 44th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to reconnect and to connect anew.

Ashley Warren

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Marketing Communications Manager, SAGE Publishing

Ashley Warren is a recent graduate of the Master of Professional Studies in Publishing program at George Washington University. She is currently Marketing Communications Manager at SAGE Publications, leading a team within Open Access to bring in original research for approximately 150 journals. Ashley has been working in communications-focused roles since graduating from the University of Virginia with degrees in English and History. During her time in the GW Publishing program, she served as Managing Editor of the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing, and previously led the journal’s Strategy and Sustainability committee.

Emily Davies

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Senior Journals Publishing Manager, Wiley

Emily started her publishing career in 2018, following the completion of a Masters degree in biological sciences and a previous job in accounting. Over the four years she has worked at Wiley, Emily has progressed from an entry level role as a Journals Publishing Assistant, to a Senior Journals Publishing Manager, now overseeing a portfolio of Society journals, in the pharmacology subject area. Driven by her love for learning, Emily seeks out opportunities to collaborate with and learn from colleagues; enabling her to develop new skills, improve upon publishing knowledge and build both internal and external networks. One example of this is her involvement in the ALPSP Membership and Marketing Committee and subsequently the working group which developed and established the ALPSP mentorship scheme. Emily has since participated as both a mentee and mentor in this mentorship scheme.

Gregg Taylor

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Licensing Manager, ATLA

Gregg works with publishers across the religion space to license journal content for Atla’s full-text research tools. Drawing on his background in the academic study of religion, he facilitates awareness of and access to key scholarly resources.

Maria Stanton

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Director of Production, Atla

Maria Stanton is the Director of Production for Atla, and a member of Atla’s executive leadership team. Atla is a non-profit membership association of librarians and information professionals and a producer of research tools committed to advancing the scholarly study of religion and theology. Maria has strategic responsibility for Atla’s family of products and new product initiatives. Maria represents Atla at various international meetings and conferences, engaging with librarians and publishers. Maria developed a collaborative relationship with ANZTLA, the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association, through this work. Maria serves as Vice Chair of the NISO Board for 2021-2022. Maria also serves on SSP’s Early Career Subcommittee and NASIG’s Conference Program Planning Committee.

Marianne Calilhanna

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VP, Marketing, Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL)

Marianne Calilhanna is the VP of Marketing for Data Conversion Laboratory. She has volunteered with SSP for 12 years on various committees and is currently a member of the SSP Annual Meeting Planning Committee. Marianne took part in the 2021 SSP Mentorship program. She has worked both for scholarly publishers as well as service providers to the industry.

Qiana Johnson

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Interim Associate University Librarian for Collections Strategies, Northwestern University Libraries

Qiana Johnson is the Interim Associate University Librarian for Collections Strategies at Northwestern University Libraries. In this role she provides strategic direction for the development, acquisition, description, and preservation of the libraries’ physical and digital collections. Recent research interests include collection assessment as well as vendor privacy policies.

Rachel E. Scott

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Associate Dean for Information Assets, Milner Library, Illinois State University

Sarah Andrus

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Mary Ann Liebert Publishers Inc.

Sarah Andrus is Executive Publisher, Clinical Medicine Journals at Mary Ann Liebert Inc. and co-chair of SSP’s Career Development Committee.

Whitney Rauenhorst

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Editorial Associate, Princeton University Press