***Note: This page is no longer maintained as of April 2020. Event-related resources can be found in the Forum space, the Get Involved page, and the Resources page. ***

Upcoming Webinars

The LPC’s Professional Development Committee coordinates a regular webinar series to provide opportunities to share knowledge, discuss on-the-ground experiences, and build on community expertise. Unless otherwise indicated, webinar participation is member-only. The recordings are made freely available on this site, however, to help support the larger community of library publishers. To access the recordings, see the list of past webinars.

There are no webinars scheduled at this time.

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Roundtables

These member-only discussions take place approximately every other month. Each one has a specified topic and an LPC member facilitator, and they often include at least one guest participant. They are informal (no presentations, no recordings), and are designed to give the LPC community an opportunity to discuss a topic of interest, as well as to identify opportunities for collaboration and areas that need further investigation or programming. Roundtable discussions are open to all staff at member institutions.


LPC New Member Roundtable

Date: September 20, 2018 Hosted by: The LPC Board Moderated by: Kate McCready (University of Minnesota, 2018-19 LPC Board President)

If your library recently joined the LPC (whatever ‘recently’ means to you), if you’re new to the community, or if you just want to chat with some new folks, please join us on Thursday, September 20 from 1:00 to 2:00pm ET  for a New Member Roundtable!

The session will be informal, but attendees will have the chance to:

  • Meet members of the Board and colleagues from other member institutions
  • Learn a bit about LPC and opportunities to engage in the community
  • Share challenges, ideas for collaborative projects, and more
  • Ask questions about pretty much anything!

Roundtable, November 2017: bepress

Date: November 17, 2017, 2:00pm EST Topic: Elsevier's acquisition of bepress Hosted by: The LPC Board Moderated by: Joshua Neds-Fox (Wayne State University)

Many in the LPC community utilize bepress’s Digital Commons to underpin our publishing efforts, open access programs, and scholarly communications outreach. Some also have concerns about the actions of Elsevier, the multi-national scholarly publisher who recently purchased bepress, within the scholarly communication environment. Certainly the purchase is discussion-worthy, and we anticipate that our membership may have practical considerations to share in relation to these two vendors. What do we as individuals, as library representatives, and as a Coalition, think about the acquisition? How does it affect our strategies around publishing and open access? How can we support each other—our colleagues who are staying with bepress and those who are looking to migrate away—in making decisions about future directions, and in working together to support those decisions? Join us for a roundtable discussion addressing the purchase and the potentially complex future of Digital Commons in the academic library.


Roundtable, September 2017: Preservation

Date: September 29, 2017, 12:00-1:00pm EDT Topic: Preservation Moderated by: Wendy Robertson (University of Iowa, NASIG) Guests: Ted Westervelt (Library of Congress), Bronwen Sprout (University of British Columbia, PKP), Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute), Sam Meister (MetaArchive Cooperative) Co-Sponsors: MetaArchive and NASIG

This is a chance to talk about what LPC members are doing to preserve the content they publish, as well as to learn about some preservation-related programs in our space. Guests and attendees will help us identify ways that the LPC can support its members in preserving their content, and opportunities to partner with other organizations to further the goal of a stable scholarly record. We hope that this will also inspire local conversations, so please feel free to invite staff working on preservation issues elsewhere in your library to attend.


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Meetups

LPC meetups are informal gatherings at library and scholarly communications events. These events are open to everyone, whether affiliated with an LPC member institution or not, and are a great way to meet colleagues in library publishing and to learn more about the LPC. See below for recent and upcoming meetups.


PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference

Date: Thursday, August 3, 2017 Location: Saint-Houblon, 5414 Avenue Gatineau Organized by: Kevin Hawkins

NASIG Annual Conference

Date: Friday, June 9th, 2017 Organized by: Carol Ann Borchert

Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting

Date: Thursday, June 1, 2017 Organized by: Hillary Corbett

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Community Calendar

The LPC community calendar includes national and regional professional events of relevance to the library publishing community as well as LPC-hosted events and meetups. To submit an event for inclusion, email contact@librarypublishing.org.

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