Posts by Nancy Adams

Kudos to the 2025-2026 Showcase Week Task Force

The Kudos program recognizes impactful work done by community members on behalf of the Library Publishing Coalition community.

This Kudos recognizes the 2025-2026 Showcase Week Task Force: Jessica Kirschner (co-chair), Molly Reed (co-chair), Jojo Karlin, Maryna Kovalyova, Sonya Betz (Board liaison)

This tiny task force took on a very ambitious task: creating a new Showcase Week program and scheduling the first Showcase Week only 8 months into the group’s work. This involved program design, a call for contributions from the community, lots of decisions about the platform, working with a large amount of content, and drafting communications. A member of the group (Jojo) even created custom, hand-drawn illustrations for the site! Their creativity and hard work paid off in a very successful first Showcase Week, and a tangible contribution to making visible the important work of library publishing. Kudos to the Showcase Week Task Force!

“We’re grateful for the opportunity to help create a space that celebrates the creativity and impact of library publishing programs. Launching Showcase Week alongside the new Library Publishing Creates website was a way to more fully recognize and elevate the important contributions library publishers make across our institutions and communities. We’re especially thankful to the LPC community for their submissions, engagement, and enthusiasm — this initiative truly came to life because of them. We look forward to seeing Library Publishing Showcase Week celebrate the amazing work of library publishers both within and outside of the LPC community for many years to come!”

This Kudos was submitted by Melanie Schlosser.

Volunteer for the Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board

The Library Publishing Coalition Board seeks applications for the Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board. Created in partnership with the Educopia Institute as part of a project generously funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Library Publishing Curriculum is now an ongoing program of the LPC. 

Membership Qualifications and Term Lengths

Highly desired qualifications include:

• Accomplishment and expertise in library publishing 
• Research/publishing experience
• Experience with curriculum development
• Strong commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility 

It is not necessary for candidates to possess robust experience in all the above areas, but they should be able to demonstrate experience with at least two. 

Members will serve three-year terms, which can be renewed once. Members who want to serve more than two consecutive terms must reapply. Estimated time commitment will be up to 5–6 hours a month, unless a member decides to take on additional writing/revision responsibilities. 

Timing: All volunteer terms starting at the same time (July 1, 2026) and running for three years.

Eligibility: Any interested library publisher may volunteer. Service on this group is open to staff at LPC member and non-member libraries and representatives of LPC strategic affiliate communities. 

Editorial Board Responsibilities

Identifying work needed: The editorial board will be responsible for identifying gaps and opportunities in the curriculum, including new units, updates or adaptations of existing units (e.g., adapting the copyright unit for another country’s copyright landscape), translations, and other projects that will increase the currency, utility, and breadth of the curriculum. 

Recruiting and guiding project participants: The editorial board will recruit project participants and guide them through their project work; these individuals would work with the editorial board to devise and implement major revisions or additions to the curriculum. 

Authoring/updating curriculum content: For small projects, the editorial board may decide to undertake the work itself, rather than recruiting project participants. 

Identifying resources for curriculum development: For projects the editorial board wants to undertake that will require outside funding or other resources, the group will work with the EIC and LPC’s Board to identify potential funding sources and apply for grants. 

Ensuring high quality content: The editorial board will ensure that existing content is still useful and relevant, and that new content developed meets project goals and quality expectations.

Curriculum promotion: The editorial board is responsible for promoting new and revised content, and encouraging adoption of the curriculum in a variety of settings. 

How to volunteer

To be considered for committee membership, please complete our brief volunteer application by Tuesday, March 31st.