Background
Tony Stankus was born on March 9, 1951, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. He is the son of Frank and Anna (Rauch) Stankus.
1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610, United States
The College of the Holy Cross where Tony Stankus received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
45 Upper College Rd, Kingston, RI 02881, United States
The University of Rhode Island where Tony Stankus received his Master of Library Science degree.
(In the first anthology of this kind, Tony Stankus knowled...)
In the first anthology of this kind, Tony Stankus knowledgeably brings together from a variety of sources the major issues involved in the collection of scientific journals. He examines the rationale for journal choices, journals and tenure, journals and budgeting, and the elements of a good journal. He shows librarians how to penetrate the internal structure of some imposing technical literature in a way that can help them make responsible collection management decisions that even their science clientele will respect.
https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Journals-Management-Monographic-Supplement/dp/0866566163
1987
(Scientific Journals: Improving Library Collections throug...)
Scientific Journals: Improving Library Collections through Analysis of Publishing Trends examines the relationships between scientists, publishers, and journals. It focuses on managing acquisitions budgets and helps substantiate journal selection/deselection decisions to library users and administrators.
https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Journals-Collections-Publishing-Information/dp/0367432676
1990
(Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Libraries: Adding ...)
Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Libraries: Adding Faces to the Facts is an invaluable guide to biographies of scientists from a wide variety of scientific fields.
https://www.amazon.com/Biographies-Scientists-Sci-Tech-Libraries-Information-ebook/dp/B0825BZLG8
1991
(Making Sense of Journals in the Life Sciences: From Speci...)
Making Sense of Journals in the Life Sciences: From Specialty Origins to Contemporary Assortment extensively covers the field of scientific journals in the life sciences with a strong biographical and historical approach to explaining the development of their variety. Written to aid those who see their budgets growing smaller while the price of serials skyrockets, this invaluable guide describes the life sciences journals through the research traditions that have given birth to them.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Journals-Life-Sciences/dp/1560241810
1992
(In Making Sense of Journals in the Physical Sciences, the...)
In Making Sense of Journals in the Physical Sciences, the author lays out the patterns of subject specialization within chemistry and physics in nontechnical language, emphasizing the often colourful people and events that influenced the founding of new areas of research and their journals. He then compares the leading titles within the various subspecialties by factors that influence loyalty both among professional audiences and library collection managers.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Journals-Physical-Sciences/dp/1560241802
1992
(In Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleg...)
In Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges, science librarians vividly describe the life and times of small liberal arts college science libraries and the workday life of librarians serving scientists from the main campus library. They describe their efforts to defend expensive science collections in the face of tight budgets, to singlehandedly monitor and select literature in all areas from astronomy through zoology, and to compete with the humanities and social studies for library shelf space.
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Librarianship-Americas-Liberal-Colleges/dp/1560243570
1992
(Scientific and Clinical Literature for the Decade of the ...)
Scientific and Clinical Literature for the Decade of the Brain describes in easily understood language the background, print sources, and electronic services of a wide range of neuroscience topics including developmental and adult neuroanatomy, regulatory and integrative neurophysiology, psychobiology, neurochemistry, molecular and cellular neuroscience, sensory perception and psychophysics, clinical neuropsychology, academic cognitive science, and neural networks, as well as neurology, neurosurgery, neurological nursing, and allied diagnostic and rehabilitative services, brain imaging, psychopharmacology and neuropharmacology, alcohol and the brain.
https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Clinical-Literature-Decade-Brain/dp/156024481X
1993
(In Special Format Serials and Issues, Tony Stankus launch...)
In Special Format Serials and Issues, Tony Stankus launches a thorough and lively introduction to the nature of these publication types. He discloses how these are handled in given fields and why expertise in identifying and handling these is important.
https://www.amazon.com/Special-Format-Serials-Issues-Advances/dp/1560247991
1996
(Electronic Expectations: Science Journals on the Web chro...)
Electronic Expectations: Science Journals on the Web chronicles the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like science fiction twenty years ago into a library fact of life today. The book shows that while electronic publication greatly speeds issuance of important scientific results of enduring value, it also has the potential to lower the economic threshold at which crank papers and marginal publications can gain a wide, if sadly misled audience, in the short run. In Electronic Expectations, editor Tony Stankus predicts with splendid irony that the electronic journals that will matter the most to genuine scientific progress will be the web versions of long-standing leaders among traditional print journals, whose electronic typesetting requirements gave the web its first format conventions and rules for safe content transmission.
https://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Expectations-Journals-Technology-Libraries/dp/0789008467
1999
(Journals of the Century gathers some of America's top sub...)
Journals of the Century gathers some of America's top subject expert librarians to determine the most influential journals in their respective fields. Thirty-two contributing authors reviewed journals from over twenty countries that have successfully shaped the evolution of their individual specialties worldwide.
https://www.amazon.com/Journals-Century-Tony-Stankus/dp/0367422336
2001
Tony Stankus was born on March 9, 1951, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. He is the son of Frank and Anna (Rauch) Stankus.
Tony Stankus attended Hudson Catholic High School graduating in 1969. He began his undergraduate studies at the College of the Holy Cross and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in modern foreign languages summa cum laude in 1973. Two years later in 1975, he obtained a Master of Library Science degree at the University of Rhode Island. During his studies, he was among the top of his class at every stage of his education.
Tony Stankus began his career as a librarian after receiving his bachelor's degree. In 1973 he joined Science Library at the College of the Holy Cross as a science librarian, the position he held till 2007. From 1982 till 2007 he was also an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island. Then he went to the University of Arkansas and began working as a professor and life sciences librarian of the University of Arkansas Libraries. His work includes research on encroachments on freedom of scientists to choose their journal outlets by the Library Correctness movement which favors only not-for-profit publishers approved of by certain library organizations; investigating the stability of reputational hierarchies of scientific journals given the growing developments in web publishing and anti-capitalist sentiments among some librarians; and analysis of the degree to which foreign publishers take over American scientific publishing and to which American publications attract foreign submissions.
He is also known as the author and contributor to many publications. Since 2009 Stankus has been editor-in-chief of the journal Science & Technology Libraries. He wrote Making Sense of Journals in the Life Sciences: From Specialty Origins to Contemporary Assortment (1992), Making Sense of Journals in the Physical Sciences: From Specialty Origins to Contemporary Assortment (1992), Special Format Serials and Issues: Annual Review of ..., Advances in ..., Symposia on ..., Methods in ... (1996), Electronic Expectations: Science Journals on the Web (1999).
He edited Scientific Journals: Issues in Library Selection and Management (1987), Scientific Journals: Improving Library Collections through Analysis of Publishing Trends (1990), Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Libraries: Adding Faces to the Facts (1991), Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges: Working Librarians Tell Their Stories (1992), Scientific and Clinical Literature for the Decade of the Brain (1993), and The Journals of the Century (2001). He authored columns "Alert Collector" in Reference Quarterly and "Making Sense of Serials" in Technicalities. He contributed to periodicals, including the Serials Librarian, Library Resources and Technical Services, College and Research Libraries, Library Journal, and Library Trends.
(Scientific and Clinical Literature for the Decade of the ...)
1993(In Making Sense of Journals in the Physical Sciences, the...)
1992(Making Sense of Journals in the Life Sciences: From Speci...)
1992(In Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleg...)
1992(Electronic Expectations: Science Journals on the Web chro...)
1999(In the first anthology of this kind, Tony Stankus knowled...)
1987(Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Libraries: Adding ...)
1991(Scientific Journals: Improving Library Collections throug...)
1990(Journals of the Century gathers some of America's top sub...)
2001(In Special Format Serials and Issues, Tony Stankus launch...)
1996Stankus' favorite quotation is "You may never be the smartest man in the room, but you still can be a reasonably smart man who works the hardest of anyone in that same room."
Quotations:
"I am ludicrously productive at work and am always coming up with new ideas for research and professional articles and books, mostly because I can't help myself."
"I am funny, admire zaftig women, and think that the greatest sadness of my life (not having surviving children) is best offset by being immensely supportive of the kids who come my way in schools and in my church life. I also fearlessly feed very large crowds at church and professional functions, remembering that the diners are largely people of goodwill and that I am the one with the big sharp knives, just in case, they're not."
"I write to try to resolve a love-hate triangle involving librarians in training to serve scientists, the scientists that those librarians will serve, and the publishers of the journals that librarians buy with great resentment to serve those scientists."
"My approach is to take advantage of what the students are already accustomed to and to explain science and the wants of scientists to these students by literate tutorial writing involving the very human, and sometimes humorous, stories of how given scientists, scientific fields, and scientific publications developed over time."
"I try to remind librarians that, while it is often true that publishers get their manuscripts for free from university-based scientists, most university science libraries are effectively funded via overhead monies taken by university administrations from grants awarded to universities for the use of their scientists."
Tony Stankus is a fellow of the Special Libraries Association.
Tony Stankus speaks German and Russian.
Tony Stankus married Jeanne Marie Yess in 1972 but the couple divorced in 1975. Then, in 1978 he married Mary Frances Doyle. The marriage produced two children, Andrew Francis and Peter Cornelius who both passed away. In 2000, Tony and Mary divorced. On December 29, 2007, Stankus married Christine Loring Souvaine.