April 11, 2025
LPC Board Agenda and Minutes, April 2025
- Meeting Minutes
- LPC Board
While library publishing has been a field of and career in academic librarianship for over a quarter century, it is often unfamiliar to students in library schools and early career librarians, resulting in an important field of librarianship being overlooked.
To remedy this, the Library Publishing Coalition’s Professional Development Committee is offering the webinar, “Introducing Library Publishing to Library Students and Early Career Academic Librarians.” In it, a panel of experts in library publishing will
Attendees will leave with a greater awareness of library publishing and how to get started in it.
Panelists
Moderator: Stefanie Buck, Director of Open Educational Resources, Oregon State University
Watch the recording and view the slides.
In anticipation of new accessibility-related requirements coming into force through U.S. and European laws, the Library Publishing Coalition’s Professional Development Committee focused this year’s Documentation Month on accessibility-related documentation and processes! Good documentation can preserve institutional memory for yourself and for future colleagues. But between deadlines and day-to-day tasks, finding the time can be a challenge. Creating effective accessibility workflows can also involve some specific and technical know-how, which may make it feel even more challenging to get started.
The third webinar, entitled Creating Workflows for Accessibility Compliance, was held on February 24. This webinar brought representatives from Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and William and Mary Libraries to share how their libraries plan to comply with the recent Justice Department ruling on the accessibility of web content and make their digital documents accessible. They will overview how they created accessibility compliance workflows, why they created them as such, what challenges they faced and how they solved them, and how you might create yours. The panelists will share their workflows as models so attendees leave knowing how to develop procedures for complying with this ruling.
Speakers
Watch the recording and view the slides: Cornell | Light and Cohen
In anticipation of new accessibility-related requirements coming into force through U.S. and European laws, the Library Publishing Coalition’s Professional Development Committee focused this year’s Documentation Month on accessibility-related documentation and processes! Good documentation can preserve institutional memory for yourself and for future colleagues. But between deadlines and day-to-day tasks, finding the time can be a challenge. Creating effective accessibility workflows can also involve some specific and technical know-how, which may make it feel even more challenging to get started.
The second webinar, entitled Math, Music, and Linguistics Accessibility, was held on February 19. Speakers information:
Watch the recording and view the slides: Math | Music | Linguistics
The Digital Publishing Manager plans, develops, implements, and assesses WashU Libraries’ digital publishing programs and infrastructure, providing support for diverse academic and creative works—journals, books, and other web-based projects—and integrating digital publishing tools into research, teaching and learning. The incumbent ensures a user-focused approach to delivering services, leads training and outreach in collaboration with colleagues across the Libraries and the University, and supports related departmental initiatives to broaden the dissemination, accessibility, and impact of scholarly output at WashU.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Professional Development and Service
Performs other duties as assigned.
Education:
Master’s degree
Work Experience:
Supervisory (1 Year)
Education:
M.L.S. – Master of Library Science
$58,400.00 – $99,700.00 / Annually
In anticipation of new accessibility-related requirements coming into force through U.S. and European laws, the Library Publishing Coalition’s Professional Development Committee focused this year’s Documentation Month on accessibility-related documentation and processes! Good documentation can preserve institutional memory for yourself and for future colleagues. But between deadlines and day-to-day tasks, finding the time can be a challenge. Creating effective accessibility workflows can also involve some specific and technical know-how, which may make it feel even more challenging to get started.
The first webinar was held on February 12, entitled It’s Not Just Alt Text: EPUBs and Accessible Digital Publishing and presented by Laura Brady, an accessible publishing expert who works with eBound Canada, the Accessible Books Consortium, and Adobe, among other organizations. Brady has more than 25 years of trade publishing experience, working in digital publishing for the past fifteen years, creating and converting ebooks, training publishers on accessible workflows, and consulting for services organizations about how to publish inclusively while worrying about everyone’s reading experience. She teaches about ebooks, publishing, and accessibility at Simon Fraser University and Toronto Metropolitan University. Her website is https://laurabrady.ca/
Watch the meeting recording and view the slides.
Description
Washington and Lee University Library welcomes applications from collaborative, user-focused, and inclusive early career librarians to join the Digital Information, Management, and Education Team (DIME) as the new Open Scholarship and Data Resident Librarian.
The library launched a new residency program within the ACRL Diversity Alliance framework in 2023 with the hire of two residents on the Research Services Team. The residency is a three-year appointment with the option to continue as a traditional Assistant Professor upon completion of the program. Goals of the residency are to develop the residents’ skills and knowledge in a small liberal arts college library setting and to “diversify and thereby enrich the profession” (ACRL Diversity Alliance: https://acrl.libguides.com/da).
Reporting to the Head of DIME, the Open Scholarship and Data Resident Librarian is responsible for facilitating digital scholarship at W&L and supporting data discovery and management with an emphasis on scholarly communication, open educational resources, and open data. This position supports faculty, students, and staff in creating open scholarship and data discovery and visualization through outreach, instruction, and consultation.
The Digital Information Management and Education (DIME) team leads digital scholarship initiatives within the University Library. In support of the curriculum and community, DIME creates and manages digital collections and digital preservation processes, provides expertise on digital research and publishing methods, and explores new forms of scholarship made possible through digital tools. Through inclusive digital pedagogy and sustainable infrastructure, the goal is to empower students, faculty, staff, and community members to use digital information thoughtfully and fluently.
The successful candidate will have a strong and demonstrated understanding of and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Open Scholarship and Data Resident Librarian will be a non-tenure track faculty member at the Assistant Professor rank. The appointment begins on or after July 1, 2025.
About the University and the Library
Washington and Lee University promotes a dynamic and inclusive environment that allows students and employees of multiple backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to learn, work, and thrive together. Successful candidates will contribute to that environment and exhibit potential for excellence in librarianship and for vigorous scholarship. In keeping with the University Strategic Plan, we welcome applications from candidates belonging to communities traditionally underrepresented in academia.
W&L is a highly selective, independent, co-educational, liberal arts college of approximately 1850 undergraduate and 400 law students and located in Lexington, VA, three hours southwest of Washington, DC. W&L is consistently ranked among the top 12 national liberal arts colleges. Established in 1749, it is the ninth oldest institution of higher learning in the nation.
The University Library serves the undergraduate teaching, learning, and research programs, housing approximately 1.3M physical and digital items in roughly 100,000 square feet of public space. The University Library is the home of W&L’s Digital Culture and Information (DCI) minor program. Library faculty serve as initial and minor program advisors for undergraduates, may teach courses in DCI and other disciplines, and participate in faculty governance, service, and scholarship opportunities.
Essential Functions
Salary and Benefits
Minimum salary: $65,000 per year. Salary is commensurate with experience.
The residency is a three-year, 12-month, non-tenure track, ranked faculty appointment with the option to move to a traditional Assistant Professor position upon completion. The library provides relocation assistance for new hires and professional development funding for all library faculty and staff.
Washington and Lee offers an extensive range of health care and life insurance benefits, retirement options, educational assistance programs, and other programs and services to our staff and faculty. For more information, visit: https://my.wlu.edu/human-resources/benefits-and-paid-time-off.
Qualifications
Application Instructions
Review of applications will begin February 17, 2025 and continue until the position is filled. We expect to hold interviews in March 2025.
Candidates should submit:
All materials should be submitted via Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/162007.
University Librarian K.T. Vaughan is eager to speak with potential candidates who have questions before applying. Please contact her at kvaughan@wlu.edu.