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Elizabeth Schwartz and Wendy Robertson receive the 2025 LPC Award for Exemplary Service

The LPC Award for Exemplary Service recognizes substantial contributions by an LPC community member to advancing the mission, vision, and values of the Library Publishing Coalition. On behalf of the LPC Board, we are delighted to announce that the recipients of the 2025 award are Elizabeth Schwartz and Wendy Robertson, for their co-leadership of the Preservation Working Group. Together, they steered the group through complex decision-making and a challenging writing process to create the Quick Guides to Digital Preservation for Library Publishers. These guides are the realization of a goal set by the earlier Preservation Task Force: to break the complexities of digital preservation into manageable chunks that will support practice. The first set of guides was released in September, and is being used as a foundation for further development. 

A statement from Elizabeth:

“Winning the LPC Exemplary Service award is such an honor! When I began my career in library publishing, I found myself needing to preserve hundreds of digital publications our library had published over the past 20 years. My experience chairing the digital preservation working group with Wendy provided both much needed technical guidance and community in navigating the daunting task of preserving born digital library publications! I’m thrilled our quick guides are now available to all library publishers.” 

A statement from Wendy:

“I am truly honored and humbled to have received this recognition. I am proud we have been able to contribute to LPC through the Preservation Working Group. LPC is one of my favorite library organizations, full of brilliant, kind, and helpful people doing amazing things. To have our efforts on the committee recognized is a bit flabbergasting given what so many other people do for LPC. Knowing what an outstanding group of people are involved in LPC makes it mean so much to be recognized for our efforts. This is one of the nicest things that has ever happened to me in my career. Thank you.”

Elizabeth and Wendy will each receive a complimentary registration to the 2026 Library Publishing Forum and a $500 honorarium. 

Please join us in congratulating Elizabeth and Wendy!

On behalf of the LPC Board

Harrison Inefuku, President
Corinne Guimont, President Elect
Erin Jerome, Secretary
Annie Johnson, Treasurer
Sonya Betz, DEI Officer
Leigh-Ann Butler, Strategic Partnerships Officer
Liz Hamilton
Angel Peterson
Janet Swatscheno, Past President

LPC welcomes a new member: University of Idaho

Please join us in welcoming the University of Idaho as a new member of the Library Publishing Coalition! The voting rep for the University of Idaho is Leesa Love. A statement from the University of Idaho:

The University of Idaho is the state’s flagship public land-grant research university, as well as its first and only R1 institution. The main campus is situated in Moscow, Idaho, on the beautiful homelands of the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce), Palus (Palouse) and Schitsu’umsh (Coeur d’Alene) tribes. With additional locations in 42 of Idaho’s 44 counties, U of I extends its impact through partnerships with communities across the state.

The University of Idaho Library currently supports students, faculty, and staff publishing efforts through CollectionBuilder—our static web framework for creating digital exhibits used around the world—an OA publishing fund, library-sponsored fellowships for digital scholarship and OER, our institutional repository, and various open publishing platforms. Recent digital scholarship publications from our Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) showcase these efforts.

We look forward to joining this community of practice to represent Idaho and continue to build out our publishing program here at U of I Library, with a focus on experiential learning opportunities and community impact.