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June 4, 2026

Announcing 2026 Library Publishing Forum Scholarship Recipients

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The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC), IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group (SIG), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) are delighted to announce the recipients of this year’s Forum scholarships—the LPC Forum Scholarship, the IFLA International Scholarship, and the LPC/AUPresses Cross-Pollinator Award. 

LPC Forum Scholarship Recipients

  • Bailey Lake, Eastern Kentucky University
  • Cláudia De Souza, University of Puerto Rico

IFLA International Scholarship Recipient

  • Sherine Eid, Biblioteca Alexandrina

The above awards help first-time participants attend the 2026 Library Publishing Forum. The 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 is being held June 17–18, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. The LPC Forum Scholarship and IFLA International Scholarship both offset travel and registration costs for first-time Forum attendees who bring new and diverse perspectives to the community. They are each assigned a mentor during the Forum and are offered opportunities to engage with the community after the Forum. 

LPC/AUPresses Cross-Pollinator Award Recipients

  • Elizabeth Bedford, University of Washington [LPC member]
  • Sophia Hebert, Indiana University Press [AUPresses member]

The Cross-Pollinator award is a joint scholarship from the LPC and AUPresses providing free registration to a first-time attendee to each annual meeting: A member of an AUPresses institution receives free registration to attend the LPC Forum, and a member of an LPC institution receives free registration to the AUPresses Annual Meeting. AUPresses is the premier professional development and networking event for university press and nonprofit scholarly publishers. The AUPresses Annual Meeting runs June 13–15, 2026, co-located with the Forum in Seattle, Washington. 

May 29, 2026

LPC releases new AI Editorial Policy Guide

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AI Editorial Policy Guide CoverThe Library Publishing Coalition is excited to announce the release of a new AI Editorial Policy Guide. This document is designed to help editors and those involved in publishing to develop an AI policy for your publishing program. Sections include policy development and maintenance, the fundamental elements included in an AI editorial policy guide, an annotated list of selected examples of AI policies, as well as further resources to aid your policy development.

This policy was developed by the LPC Professional Development Committee as a follow up to an LPC-hosted webinar on AI Policies which included guest speakers from Ubiquity Press (Imogen Clarke) and In the Library with the Lead Pipe (Ryan Randall and Brittany Paloma Fiedler). We encourage you to watch the webinar recording as you think about your AI policy planning.

This document is being released under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), so we encourage further distribution and adaptation of this guide.

May 21, 2026

LPC is hiring!

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For the first time since 2019, LPC is hiring a permanent staff position! Our new 30 hrs/wk Program Specialist will provide administrative support for the community among other program-related work. This is a 100% remote position working with the best professional community out there. See the full job posting for details and instructions on applying.

We’re recruiting mainly via word-of-mouth, so please feel free to share this posting with anyone you think would be a good fit. Priority will be given to applications received by June 4.

May 20, 2026

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.

March 9, 2026

Kudos to the 2025-2026 Showcase Week Task Force

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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)

Line drawing of a row of dancing people and cursive writing that reads: Library Publishing Showcase Week 2026

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.

March 3, 2026

Volunteer for the Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board

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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. 

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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.

February 13, 2026

Full COVID Policy for the 2026 Library Publishing Forum

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Goal

LPC’s goal for the 2026 Library Publishing Forum is to encourage the safest possible in-person conference environment through careful planning and mutual care. 

Although public concern has waned, COVID-19 is still a serious health risk. Even otherwise healthy individuals are at risk for complications and for long COVID, and those risks increase with repeated infections. For individuals with weakened immune systems or other vulnerabilities, the risks are heightened significantly.

We acknowledge that an in-person event will inevitably carry a higher level of risk than a virtual one, and that even the most careful precautions may not reduce the risk enough for some community members to attend safely. For that and other reasons, we will continue to alternate in-person events with fully virtual ones.   (more…)