Posts by Nancy Adams

December 19, 2024

LPC welcomes a new member: University of Saskatchewan

The Library Publishing Coalition is delighted to welcome the University of Saskatchewan as a new member. Their voting rep is DeDe Dawson.

A statement from the University of Saskatchewan:

The University of Saskatchewan is a research-intensive medical doctoral university and is home to world leading research in areas of global importance, including water and food security, and infectious diseases. USask’s main campus is located in the vibrant city of Saskatoon, SK, Canada, on Treaty 6 territory and the traditional homeland of the Métis. The University Library operates seven physical locations across campus, as well as robust online services to over 20,000 students. We are in the early stages of developing a diamond open access journal hosting service. Our library has an instance of OJS and we have hosted one journal on it since 2018. It is a peer-reviewed, undergraduate research journal where undergraduate editors run the journal with guidance from library staff and faculty. Additionally, over the last year we have been running a pilot project to support the transition of a small humanities journal from print/subscription to online/diamond OA, and most recently (as of yesterday!) we have entered into an agreement to host another long-running local journal too. We are excited to join the LPC community, and we look forward to learning from our peers in library publishing and contributing back where we can!

December 18, 2024

2024 Library Publishing Directory now available

The Library Publishing Coalition is pleased to announce the publication of the 2024 Library Publishing Directory! This year’s print, PDF, EPUB, online versions and dataset of the Library Publishing Directory highlight the publishing activities of 167 library publishers across the globe.

The Directory illustrates the many ways in which libraries are actively transforming and advancing scholarly communications in partnership with scholars, students, university presses, and others. Each year, the Directory‘s introduction presents a ‘state of the field’ based on that year’s data, which we also publish in a related blog posting.

We are also excited to announce the Library Publishing Directory research data set has been updated and now includes data through the current directory, 2024, thanks to the hard work of the Research Committee. This resource is composed of the data in csv format and includes the original survey instrument and data dictionary for each year. The directory data can be accessed at the Directory’s main page.

The 2024 Directory also reflects an ongoing partnership with the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Library Publishing Special Interest Group (LibPub SIG), and includes international entries, translated by IFLA LibPub SIG members. Libraries who chose to complete the full survey appear in the print, PDF, and EPUB versions of the Directory. All entries appear in the online version. IFLA’s Global Library Publishing Map is a first-of-its-kind online database of global library publishing initiatives.

Publication of the 2024 Directory was overseen by the LPC’s 2023-24 and 2024-25 Directory Committees:

 Library Publishing Coalition Directory Committee
2024-2025
Allison Brown, SUNY Geneseo (chair)
Emily Carlisle, Western University
Angel Clemons, University of Louisville
Gina Genova, University of Louisville
Briana Knox, University of North Texas
Matthew Vaughn, Indiana University
Elizabeth Scarpelli, University of Cincinnati Press, Board liaison

2023-2024
Allison Brown, SUNY Geneseo, co-chair
Jody Bailey, Emory University
Ryan Otto, Kansas State University
Ted Polley, Indiana University Bloomington
Emily Carlisle, University of Western Ontario

IFLA Special Interest Group on Library Publishing Subcommittee
Grace Liu (Canada)
Ann Okerson (USA)

Library Publishing Coalition Research Committee
Karen Bjork, Virginia Commonwealth University (chair)
Matthew Goldberg, University of Louisville
Matt Hunter, Florida State University
Michelle LaLonde, Wayne State University
John Morgenstern, Emory University
Talia Perry, Carnegie Mellon University
Mai Yamamoto, Purdue University
Leigh-Ann Butler, Board liaison

October 28, 2024

LPC job board policy change: Salary info now required

Effective immediately, LPC is updating our job board policy to require the inclusion of a salary or salary range on all job postings. This policy will also apply to jobs shared on our member listserv. 

Rationale: This was a suggestion made during a community call on pay equity and precarity, which was part of a larger series of community calls on labor issues in fall of 2023. This change brings us into alignment with other organizations in our space that aggregate job postings, many of which require salary information. This change is part of a larger movement towards transparency in hiring. Including salary information in job listings allows job seekers to target their searches to jobs that meet their salary needs, and avoids putting them in a situation where they invest time in a search only to find that the salary isn’t what they expected. 

Expected impact: This policy change is mostly a statement of principle, since all recent LPC job board postings have included salary information. We are making the change in recognition of the fact that job posting aggregators have an important role to play in supporting job seekers, and in support of focus area one in our Community Plan: “Support community members’ well-being and career longevity in the field of library publishing.” 

October 15, 2024

Corinne Guimont receives the 2024 LPC Award for Exemplary Service

On behalf of the LPC Board, we are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2024 LPC Award for Exemplary Service is Corinne Guimont, Associate Director, Publishing & Digital Scholarship, Virginia Tech Publishing. The Award recognizes substantial contributions by an LPC community member to advancing the mission, vision, and values of the Library Publishing Coalition. 

Corinne was nominated for her established history of active participation in LPC.  In addition to serving as a member of the Research Committee, she represented LPC on the NASIG Digital Preservation Model License Subgroup and co-authored the Digital Preservation Model Policy in March 2022 to support publishers in the creation of preservation policies. She has volunteered as a peer mentor in LPC’s mentoring program and is currently serving as chair of the LPC Program Committee.  In addition to her committee service, her nomination highlighted her work with Cheryl Ball and Matt Vaughn to produce the 2023 Platform Crosswalk.  Corinne’s dedication and investment in LPC’s ongoing success is evident through these and other activities in LPC.  As her nomination mentions, Corinne “is both a proactive member and a conscientious leader dedicated to the future of the Library Publishing Coalition.”

A statement from Corinne:

I am beyond honored to receive the LPC Exemplary Service Award this year. I have learned so much from serving on the various committees, from where we can focus our research to how we’re preserving the work we’re publishing, that has helped shape how I approach my day-to-day work. The opportunities that LPC provides to work with others and better share these findings has been instrumental to how we grow and develop library publishing at large. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with so many involved in the community, but I’d like to give an extra shout-out for the work Cheryl Ball, Matt Vaughn, and I did with the platform crosswalk project, which wouldn’t have been possible without support from LPC. Thank you so much!

Corinne will receive a complimentary registration to this year’s Library Publishing Forum and a $500 honorarium. 

Please join us in congratulating Corinne!

On behalf of the LPC Board

Janet Swatscheno, President
Harrison Inefuku, President-Elect
Erin Jerome, Secretary
Annie Johnson, Treasurer
Angel Peterson, DEI Officer
Sonya Betz
Elizabeth Scarpelli
Leigh-Ann Butler
Sarah Frankel
Regina Raboin
Amanda Hurford, Past President