Posts by Nancy Adams

November 1, 2024

November 2024 LPC Update

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The November 2024 Library Publishing Coalition Update has been published! In it you’ll find recent news from the Library Publishing Coalition including

Forum News

  • Confirmed dates
  • Call for proposals is open

University Based Publishing Futures

  • New community launch
  • Recording available; sign up to volunteer

Community News

  • New members and new strategic affiliates
  • Information about upcoming and past webinars
  • Much more!

Blog Spotlight

  • Three report-outs on the 2024 Library Publishing Forum

October 28, 2024

LPC job board policy change: Salary info now required

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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 24, 2024

2025 Library Publishing Forum Call For Proposals

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The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in or considering publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice.

The Forum includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of LPC to attend.

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is now accepting proposals for the 2025 Virtual Library Publishing Forum to be held May 5–8, 2025! The deadline for submitting a proposal is January 6th, 2024. (Updated 11/15 to extend from 12/2.)

Proposal submissions for the Forum are welcome from LPC members and nonmembers, including library employees, university press employees, scholars, students, and other scholarly communication and publishing professionals. We welcome proposals from first-time presenters and representatives of small and emerging publishing programs.

We are committed to expanding the diversity of perspectives we hear from at the Library Publishing Forum. Working towards some of the “Continuing Initiatives” from the LPC Roadmap for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, we ask all proposals to explicitly address how they are inclusive of multiple perspectives, address DEIA, or incorporate anti-racist and anti-oppressive approaches. Presentations about specific communities should include members of that community in their speaker list, and for sessions with multiple speakers, we seek to avoid all-white and all-male panels.

Learn more about session formats and submitting on the Forum program web page.

Submit a proposal

On behalf of the Library Publishing Coalition Program Committee:
  • Corinne Guimont, Virginia Tech (2024-2025, chair)
  • Elizabeth Bedford, University of Washington
  • Jennifer Coronado, Butler University
  • Loftan Hooker, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Ryan Otto, Kansas State University
  • Jessica Thorlakson, University of Alberta

October 15, 2024

Corinne Guimont receives the 2024 LPC Award for Exemplary Service

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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

September 26, 2024

Library Publishing Coalition Releases 2023–2024 Annual Report

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The Library Publishing Coalition is pleased to announce the release of its 2023–2024 Annual Report.

In addition to outlining LPC’s finances, membership, and ongoing inclusion efforts, the Annual Report highlights several programmatic milestones, including:

  • Launching LPC’s new Community Plan
  • Celebrating 10 years of LPC by the numbers
  • 10th Anniversary Service Leadership Award

LPC is thrilled to celebrate our community’s shared success. We especially want to acknowledge all the hard work that went into the new visioning process and Community Plan as highlighted in the annual report. LPC’s continued sustainability and effectiveness result from the work undertaken by LPC members, staff, our partners, and affiliate organizations. All the people involved in this work offered their time, energy, and expertise to fulfill our vision of an open, inclusive, and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape.