These two-year fellowships are designed to enable participation in the LPC community by important voices who are not at member institutions, to broaden access to library publishing to underrepresented groups, and to mentor new library publishers.
About the Program
Activities and Expectations
Service: Each fellow will undertake a service commitment within the LPC – generally serving on a committee, task force, or Board subgroup. This community involvement will allow LPC to benefit from the fellows’ experiences and perspectives, while allowing the fellows to develop relationships and learn more about the community.
Writing and presenting: Each fellow will write 2-3 posts per year for the LPC Blog reflecting on their fellowship experience and sharing their perspective on library publishing with the community. (Previous posts can be found in the Fellows Journal category on the blog.) The fellows will also present at the Library Publishing Forum.
Other opportunities: Depending on the fellow’s interests and the particular scope of the program, fellows may also undertake research projects or other activities. See the Call for Applications for a particular round for more details.
Resources and Benefits
Member resources: The fellows will have access to all LPC member resources, including the email list, the documentation portal, and member-only events like webinars and roundtable discussions.
Travel support: The fellows will also receive travel support to attend the Library Publishing Forum. The travel support will be $1,000 + registration each year of the fellowship. (If necessary, the fellow can draw on both years’ travel support in a single year and present at the Forum virtually the other year.)
Mentorship: To support their activities during the fellowship, the fellows will meet regularly with their mentors and quarterly with a larger group that includes fellows, mentors, representatives of the LPC Board, and the Community Facilitator. To learn more about the organization and the community, fellows will also be invited (though not required) to attend the monthly LPC Board meetings as observers.
LPC Fellows
2019-2021 LPC Fellows
Talea Anderson
AJ Boston
2017-19 LPC Fellows
Reggie Raju
Reggie is the Deputy Director for Research and Learning Services at the University of Cape Town Libraries, South Africa. He has been in academic libraries for more than 30 years. He holds a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Currently, he serves on the Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee of IFLA and is the interim chair of the SPARC Africa Working Group. His research area is research librarianship with a specific focus on scholarly communication. He is the co-editor of the first two open access books published by UCT Libraries and has published a number of articles in national and international journals and has written a number chapters in books.
Charlotte Roh
Charlotte is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of San Francisco, a small Jesuit University near Golden Gate Park with a social justice mission. This social justice mission intersects with Charlotte’s work in scholarly communication around systemic bias and diversity representation, informed by her experience in academic publishing. Charlotte completed her undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and received her MLIS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a Spectrum Scholar, an ARL CEP Fellow, and the recipient of the 2017 LPC Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Library Publishing..