Posts by Maggie Rosenau

May 20, 2026

LPC releases report on current state of staffing in library publishing

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The Library Publishing Coalition is pleased to announce the release of the report, Powered by People: Staffing and Capacity in Library Publishing Programs and to invite the community to a webinar on June 2nd where we will share highlights and answer questions.

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About the report: In summer 2025, LPC’s Staffing Survey Task Force released a survey of library publishing programs to develop a deeper understanding of how and by whom library publishing programs are staffed. The report we are releasing today outlines results and discusses key takeaways, including:

  • Good practices and pain points

  • Alignment between output expectations and institutional support of publishing programs

  • Intentionality of staffing changes and subsequent outcomes

  • Future needs and workload changes shaped by new technologies and requirements

Powered by People: Staffing and Capacity in Library Publishing Programs serves as an avenue for learning about and reflecting on labor-related decisions and changes happening within the library publishing community.

  • Citation: Powered by People: Staffing and Capacity in Library Publishing Programs. (2026) Library Publishing Staffing Survey Report. Atlanta, GA: Educopia Institute. https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284318627

Webinar info: The LPC Staffing Survey Task Force will host a webinar on Tuesday, June 2 from 12-1pm EDT to discuss the results, process, and takeaways from the Staffing Survey Report. Join us for an overview of the survey report, a highlight of interesting results, and potential future research directions as well as a look behind the scenes at developing and administering the survey. This webinar will be recorded and shared for those unable to attend synchronously.

Advance registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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February 23, 2026

Library Publishing Creates and Library Publishing Showcase Week 2026

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Welcome to the inaugural Library Publishing Showcase Week! This week, we invite everyone to celebrate how library publishing supports authors, students, researchers, and scholarly communities by featuring impactful publications, partnerships, and services. 

 

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To kick off the celebration, we want to introduce you to Library Publishing Creates, the new advocacy website. For the last couple of years, the need for advocacy in support of library publishing has consistently surfaced in conversations with LPC members. As a community of practice, LPC isn’t well situated to perform direct advocacy, but we can provide our library publishers with the tools they need to advocate for themselves. Library Publishing Creates is our first step in that direction. It consists of three parts: 

  • The home page is a fact sheet about library publishing centered on the things that library publishing creates: impact, learning opportunities, cost savings, and responsive services. This page is also available as a downloadable PDF. 
  • The Showcase section hosts all of the content produced for Library Publishing Showcase Week, organized by the four categories from the home page. It also features digest posts for smaller, themed groups of contributions, each with an original illustration by Jojo Karlin (a member of the Showcase Week Task Force). 
  • The Tell Your Story page is still under construction, but it’s where we will share tools and resources to help library publishers make the case for their work locally. 

Library Publishing Showcase Week 2026

The Library Publishing Coalition is happy to participate in the inaugural Library Publishing Showcase Week. We will send out an email each day this week highlighting programs and publications from around the LPC community which showcase how library publishing creates. Each day focuses on one of the four advocacy campaign categories: 

  • Tuesday highlights library publishing impact. The showcase posts highlight two big categories of impact: opportunities for adding to the commons (aka the public domain) and innovation and adaptation which may not be available through traditional, commercial publishing avenues. 
  • Wednesday celebrates the learning opportunities that uniquely emerge from library publishing programs, especially for students. 
  • Thursday showcases specific publications and programs which help save their students, faculty, and institutions money, as well as some resources focused specifically on students’ savings through textbook costs. 
  • Friday highlights the unique publications that emerge from library publishing’s ability to respond to the wants and needs of the community it supports, and showcases one specific need which seems to be especially suited to library publishing: music.

All Library Publishing Showcase Week content is already available on the Library Publishing Creates site, so explore away, or wait for the daily email to draw your attention to a subset of posts. 

Even if you are not highlighted on Library Publishing Creates, we encourage you to celebrate Library Publishing Showcase Week! Share your project or program and highlight how it creates impact, learning opportunities, cost savings, and responsive services through local blog posts and social media using #libpubweek or #libpubshowcase. We’ve also created some badges you can use in your publicity.

Happy Library Publishing Showcase Week! 

 

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February 18, 2026

Introducing MOSAIC

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The Library Publishing Coalition is excited to launch our new newsletter format! You may recall the old Quarterly Updates, which evolved into Updates (when we started sending them out less than quarterly), and then ceased entirely at the end of 2024. The Quarterly Updates were news round-ups, and they were a useful communications strategy in the early days. Over the last few years, though, we have been sending more news directly through our public news list, and we launched a biweekly news round-up on the member list, making the Updates somewhat redundant.

We still felt that there was a need for regularly scheduled communications, however, so we went back to the drawing board and came up with MOSAIC. Each issue will focus on a single topic, and will include both original writing and a round-up of relevant items from LPC’s enormous resource library. MOSAIC is intended to contextualize important issues, while connecting our wider community to resources that support excellent practice in library publishing.

Read the first issue of MOSAIC here.

January 27, 2026

LPC New Membership Special for 2026-2027

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LPC membership is already a bargain, with full institutional membership and unlimited community participation for under $3k/year, but we are always striving to make membership more affordable and accessible. 

 

NEW MEMBER SPECIAL

Understanding that many libraries are facing tight budgets, and given LPC’s solid financial position, we are foregoing our scheduled annual dues increase for next year. LPC membership dues for 2026–2027 will remain frozen at the 2025-26 rate. 

Dues for regular membership

  • 2025-2026 program year dues: $2,756 USD
  • 2026-2027 program year dues: $2,894 USD $2,756 USD

 

And here’s the best part: new members can join for the 2026–2027 program year for even less.

NEW MEMBERSHIP RATE: $2000.00
Regular rate: $2756.00

 

Don’t forget – we also have a consortial membership option!

 

HOW TO APPLY

We hope you’ll take advantage of this special offer and become part of the Library Publishing Coalition. We would love to welcome you to the LPC community. Fill out the appropriate membership application or email us with questions. See all the details here.

 

January 23, 2026

Save the Date: Library Publishing Showcase Week is February 23-27, 2026!

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The LPC Showcase Week Task Force is excited to announce that the inaugural Library Publishing Showcase Week will be February 23–27, 2026! Library Publishing Showcase Week is a celebration of the creativity, innovation, and significance of library publishing programs.

Throughout the week, LPC will spotlight how library publishing supports authors, students, researchers, and scholarly communities by featuring impactful publications, partnerships, and services. Participants were selected from submissions across the LPC community.

This inaugural Library Publishing Showcase Week will happen alongside the launch of our forthcoming library publishing advocacy website, which will also host the Library Publishing Showcase Week content.

Even if you are not highlighted through LPC, we encourage you to celebrate Library Publishing Showcase Week! Share your project or program and highlight how it creates impact, learning opportunities, cost savings, and responsive services through local blog posts and social media using #libpubweek or #libpubshowcase. We’ve also created some badges you can use in your publicity.

We hope you’ll save the date and plan to celebrate library publishing with us!

Warmly,
The LPC Showcase Week Task Force

 

December 16, 2025

Application Timeline for 2026-2027 Consortial Membership

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As part of our ongoing efforts to make membership as accessible as possible, LPC offers a consortial membership option. We have always had consortia as members, but until 2025 there wasn’t a mechanism for them to pass along their membership benefits to their own member institutions. This option streamlines billing for groups of libraries who come in under a consortial membership, allowing us to offer tiered membership dues based on institution size. See the membership page for more details and a breakdown of the dues. 

In June 2025, we welcomed VIVA!

VIVA logo“VIVA is excited to offer an affordable and inclusive avenue for all our members to join LPC’s vibrant, supportive community. The new partnership model developed with LPC makes broad participation possible—from small community colleges to large doctoral institutions, and from those just beginning to explore publishing to those with long-established programs. Having a community of practice for guidance and support, and for providing and establishing best practices is invaluable for everyone in library publishing, especially in today’s evolving landscape of new accessibility requirements, changing perceptions of publishing, and varying institutional expectations.”

To begin a consortial membership in July of 2026, a consortium would need to apply for membership, return a signed membership agreement, and indicate which of its members are joining as participating institutions for the coming year by March 1, 2026. (Consortial memberships can still be initiated after that date but may not be fully implemented by the beginning of the program year.) So, if you’re interested, please get the ball rolling as soon as possible! If you’re a consortium that already has a regular LPC membership, the process is slightly different – just email us to get started. 

Questions? Email contact@librarypublishing.org to get answers or set up a call to discuss. 

We look forward to welcoming new consortial memberships!

November 11, 2025

LPC dues freeze for 2026-27 program year

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LPC membership is already a bargain, with full institutional membership and unlimited community participation for under $3k/year, but we are always striving to make membership more affordable and accessible. 

Understanding that many libraries are facing tight budgets, and given LPC’s  solid financial position, we are foregoing our scheduled annual dues increase for next year. LPC membership dues for 2026–2027 will remain frozen at the 2025-26 rate. 

Dues for regular membership

    • 2025-2026 program year dues: $2,756 USD
    • 2026-2027 program year dues: $2,894 USD $2,756 USD

Even with this freeze, we understand that this is a challenging time for many libraries. If budget challenges have you thinking about ending your membership next year, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. We would love to talk with you about options.