The Library Publishing 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 includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend.
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Keynote: Catherine Kudlick
After two decades at the University of California, Davis, Catherine Kudlick became Professor of History and Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University in 2012. She has published a number of books and articles in disability history, including Reflections: the Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Postrevolutionary France and “Disability History: Why We Need Another Other” in the American Historical Review. She oversaw completion of Paul Longmore’s posthumously published book, Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity. She is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Disability History with Michael Rembis and Kim Nielsen. As director of the Longmore Institute, she directed the public history exhibit “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights” and co-hosts Superfest International Disability Film Festival. She has been active in electronic accessibility initiatives, first at UC Davis and more recently in public advocacy.
Affiliated Events
Owned by the Academy: A Preconference on Open Source Publishing Software
Date: Monday, May 21, 2018 (full day) Location: Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Registration: $50 (limit 100) Hashtags: #OwnedByTheAcademy, #LPForum18KairosCamp Editors Workshop
Dates: Sunday, May 20 through Monday, May 21, 2018 Location: University of Minnesota Registration: free (limit 15)Library Publishing Curriculum Pilot Workshops: Content and Impact
Date: Thursday, May 24 (full day) Location: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Andersen Library Registration: By application
Schedule at-a-glance
Sunday, May 20
- Full day: KairosCamp Editors Workshop (workshop)
- Evening: Guthrie Theater outing (social)
Monday, May 21
- Full day: KairosCamp Editors Workshop (workshop)
- Full day: Owned by the Academy: A Preconference on Open Source Publishing Platforms (preconference)
- Late afternoon: Library tours (social)
- Evening: Informal gathering for first-time attendees (social)
- Evening: Dine-arounds (social)
Tuesday, May 22
- Full day: Library Publishing Forum (conference)
- Evening: Reception, Weisman Art Museum (social)
- Late evening: Informal gathering at Surly Brewing Co. (social)
Wednesday, May 23
- Full day: Library Publishing Forum (conference)
- Evening: social outing [tentative, details TBD] (social)
Thursday, May 24
- Full day: Library Publishing Curriculum Pilot Workshops (workshop)
Tuesday, May 22
7:30am – 5:00pm | Registration
7:30 – 8:30am | Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30am | Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30 – 9:30am | Keynoteaddress by Catherine Kudlick, San Francisco State University 
Disabilité! Accessibilité! Diversité!: Expanding the Cultural Framework for Library Publishing [slides] [video]
9:30 – 10:00am | Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:00am | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
University Libraries and University Presses: Working towards true collaboration [slides]
Thomas Hickerson, Libraries & Cultural Resources, University of Calgary; Brian Scrivener, University of Calgary Press; Guylaine Beaudry, Concordia University Library; Geoffrey Little, Concordia University Press
FULL SESSION
Digital Preservation for Library Publishers: Raising Awareness [slides]
Heather Staines, Hypothesis; Wendy Robertson, University of Iowa; Jeremy Morse, University of Michigan Publishing
PANEL: EVALUATION AND CHANGE
Charting the New Frontier in Library Publishing: Using Janeway as an Open-Source Library Publishing Platform [video]
David Scherer, Rikk Mulligan, and Dan Evans, Carnegie Mellon University
Reaching Public Library Audiences with the DPLA Exchange [slides] [video]
Michelle Bickert, DPLA
Evolution Through Collaboration: Exploring Participatory Change in a Library Publishing Program [video] [slides]
Matt Ruen and Jacklyn Rander, Grand Valley State University Libraries
11:15am – 12:15pm | Concurrent Sessions
PANEL: NEW DIRECTIONS
Your Sh*t Isn’t Really Open: A challenge to all of us in ScholCommLand
Amy Buckland, University of Guelph
Exploring Open Data Policies for Library Publishing [slides] [video]
Monica Westin, California Digital Library
Understanding the New Publishing Goals of Scholars: Toward a Sustainable Model for Broadly Accessible Library Publishing [slides] [video]
Janet Swatscheno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PANEL: NON-TEXTUAL PUBLISHING
Accessible Transformations of Early Web-based Archives [video]
Karl Stolley and Katie Ediger, Illinois Institute of Technology
New Directions in Digital Library Publishing: Increasing Access to Non-Textual Cultural Dance Narratives [slides] [video]
Sara Benson, Copyright Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Library; Harriett Green, University of Illinois Library
PANEL: WORKING WITH A SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY
Library and Societies as Publishing Partner [slides] [video]
Suzanne Stapleton, University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
Coalition Publi.ca: A Canadian Initiative for a Sustainable Publishing Environment in HSS [video]
Emilie Paquin and Élise Bergeron, Érudit.org
A University Library and a Scholarly Society Walk Into a Bar… Leveraging Open-Source Technologies Together to Help Researchers Tell a More Textured Story About Their Work [video]
Nicky Agate, Columbia University
12:15 – 1:15pm | Lunch
LUNCHTIME CONVERSATION
Making scholarly communications and the research environment more open, inclusive, and equitable (ACRL Research Agenda)
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint
1:15 – 2:15pm | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
No Publisher Is an Island: How to Find and Work with Freelance Editorial and Design Professionals [slides] [slides]
Jody Bailey, University of Texas at Arlington; Peter Potter, Virginia Tech; Kellie M. Hultgren, KMH Editing; Madeleine Vasaly
PANEL: COLLABORATION
The Michigan Experience: A Cross-institutional, Cross-stakeholder Publishing Collaboration [video]
Carolyn Morris, BiblioLabs
Subject Librarianship in Flux: Scholarly Communication Partnerships at Dublin City University [video] [slides] [bibliography]
Alexander Kouker, Dublin City University Library
Toward Justice: Reflections on A Lesson Before Dying: Community Engagement through Library Publishing [slides] [video]
Robin A. Bedenbaugh and Holly Mercer, University of Tennessee
FULL SESSION
The Publishing Cooperative at the Open Textbook Network: Challenges & Opportunities in Launching an Open Textbook Publishing Program [slides] [video]
Karen Lauritsen, Open Textbook Network; Beth Bernhardt and Anna Craft, UNC Greensboro; Karen Bjork, Portland State University; Corinne Guimont and Anita Walz, Virginia Tech; Amanda Larson, Penn State University ; Carla Myers, Miami University
2:30 – 3:30pm | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
Fellows Forum [slides] [slides]
Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library/2017-18 LPC Board President; Reggie Raju, University of Cape Town, 2017-18 LPC Fellow; Charlotte Roh, University of San Francisco, 2017-2018 LPC Fellow
PANEL: THE EDITORIAL SIDE
Think Like an Editor
Patrick Hogan, American Library Association
The Pain of Peer-Review for a Small Press
Amy Filiatreau, Lynn University
Support for Multilingual Journals using Open Journal Systems [slides]
Camille Thomas and Jessica Kirschner, Texas Tech University; Vanessa Gabler and Timothy Deliyannides, University of Pittsburgh
FULL SESSION
Extending and Measuring Impact [slides] [video]
Elizabeth Scarpelli, Director, University of Cincinnati Press; Jason Colman, Director, Michigan Publishing Services, University of Michigan Library; John W. Warren, Director, George Mason University Press/Mason Publishing
3:30 – 4:00pm | Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00pm | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
DigitalCommons Users Discuss the bepress Acquisition
Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Roger Weaver, Missouri Science and Technical University; Marilyn Billings, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Phillip Fitzsimmons, Southwest Oklahoma State University; Terri Fishel, Macalester College
FULL SESSION
Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-Published Monographs [slides] [video 1] [video 2]
Stacy Konkiel, Altmetric; Kevin Hawkins, University of North Texas; Sarah McKee, Emory University
FULL SESSION
A Statewide Solution for Libraries Supporting Self-Publishing [video]
Valerie Horton and Matt Lee, Minitex; Shane Nackerud, University of Minnesota Libraries
6:00 – 8:00pm |Reception, Weisman Art Museum
Wednesday, May 23
7:30am – 5:00pm | Registration
8:00 – 9:00am | Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30am | LPC Membership Meeting: Navigating the choppy waters of library publishing infrastructure
9:45 – 10:45am | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
Iterating the Ethical Framework for Library Publishing: A Working Session [video 1] [video 2]
Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University; Charlotte Roh, University of San Francisco
FULL SESSION
What’s Your (Business) Plan? How to Move your Library Publishing Service Forward Strategically [slides]
Kate McCready, Emma Molls, Shane Nackerud, and Laureen Boutang, University of Minnesota
PANEL: APPROACHES TO MONOGRAPH PUBLISHING
How we designed an open access & open source publishing workflow for research output of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences [slides] [video]
Dylan Degeling, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
An Open-Access Triple Triumph: Collaborating at Syracuse University Libraries [slides] [video]
Amanda Page, Syracuse University Libraries
New Directions in Open Scholarship: From Journals to Monographs – a Use Case [slides]
Rosarie Coughlan, Queen’s University
10:45 – 11:15am | Coffee Break
11:15am – 12:15pm | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
DOAJ Application Workshop with Editor Judith Barnsby [slides]
Judith Barnsby, DOAJ; members of the LPC DOAJ Task Force
FULL SESSION
Librarians and Specialists and Coordinators, Oh My!: Labor in Library Publishing [slides]
Annie Johnson, Temple University; Emily Gattozzi, Bowling Green State University; Nina Collins, Purdue University
FULL SESSION
Balancing Vendor Collaborations for Sustainable Library Publishing [slides]
Matthew Hunter, Florida State University; Peter Potter, Virginia Tech; Brian Hole, CEO, Ubiquity Press; James MacGregor, Public Knowledge Project
12:15 – 1:15pm | Lunch
LUNCHTIME CONVERSATION
Library Publisher-University Press lunchtime conversation
Beth Fuget, University of Washington; Kathryn Conrad, University of Arizona Press
1:15 – 2:15pm | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
The University Press and the Library Publisher: Spanning Boundaries to Create Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Professional Development Resources for Library Publishers [slides]
Hannah Ballard, Educopia Institute; Sara Benson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Peter Berkery, AAUP; Laurie Taylor, University of Florida; John W. Warren, George Mason University Press/Mason Publishing
FULL SESSION
Strengthening the Scholarly Record: A Workshop on Crafting Metadata Records and DOIs with Crossref [slides]
Jennifer Kemp and Shayn Smulyan, Crossref
FULL SESSION
Getting Found / Staying Found: Practical Strategies for Improving Discovery for Online Journals [slides] [video]
Roger Gillis, Dalhousie University/Public Knowledge Project; Andrea Pritt, Pennsylvania State University/Public Knowledge Project; Andrea Kosavic, York University Libraries; Sonya Betz, University of Alberta; Jeannette Hatherill, University of Ottawa
2:30 – 3:30pm | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
Developing Library Support for Publishing Expansive Digital Humanities Projects
David Hansen and Paolo Mangiafico, Duke University Libraries; Liz Milewicz, Duke University
PANEL: INTERSECTIONS OF LIBRARY PUBLISHING AND PEDAGOGY
Expanding Scholarly Communication Instruction for the Next Generation
of LIS Leaders: Building an Open Educational Resource to Support the Work of Scholarly Communication [slides] [video]
Maria Bonn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Publishing Literacy in the For-Credit Classroom: Assessing Indiana University Journal of Undergraduate Research Student Editors [slides] [video]
Sarah Hare, Indiana University
Beta Testing an Open Access Monograph Publishing Lab: Brainstorm Books at UCSB Library [slides] [video]
Sherri L. Barnes, University of California, Santa Barbara; Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, Punctum Books
FULL SESSION
Getting the Word Out: Strategies for Reaching Your Readers [slides] [slides] [video]
Kathryn Conrad, University of Arizona Press; Emily Hamilton, University of Minnesota Press; Becky Welzenbach, University of Michigan Library; John W. Warren, Mason Publishing Group/George Mason University Press
3:30 – 4:00pm | Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00pm | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION
Taking the Leap: Experiences Planning and Implementing a Migration to OJS 3 [video 1] [video 2]
Sarah Hare, Indiana University; Emma Molls, University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota; Ted Polley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
FULL SESSION
What OA Policy Administrators, I.R. Managers, and Scholarly Communication Officers Want from Publishers
John G. Dove, Paloma & Associates; David Scherer, Carnegie-Mellon University; Barbara DeFelice, Dartmouth College; Jonathan Bull, Valparaiso University
PANEL: DISCOVERY
On Adding Platforms to Improve Sustainability: The Case for the Minimal Journal [video]
Kerri O’Connell and Alexander Gil Fuentes, Columbia University
If They See Them, They Will Come: Improving Visibility and Reuse of Library-Published Journals [slides] [video]
Marianne Reed, University of Kansas Libraries
5:00 – 5:15pm | Closing Remarks
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