Schedule is in progress and subject to change
Schedule at a glance
Tuesday, June 16
Wednesday, June 17
- 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Library Publishing Forum
- 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.: Reception
Thursday, June 18
- 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: Library Publishing Forum
Wednesday, June 17
7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. | Registration | North Ballroom
7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast | North Ballroom
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks 
[video] | North Ballroom
8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. | Keynote [video] [slides] | North Ballroom
Heather Joseph, SPARC
9:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. | Break
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions
WATCH PARTY #1 (pre-recorded presentations) | North Ballroom
The ZTC Buzz: Sharing our Zero Textbook Cost Campus Tour [video]
Michelle Brailey, University of Alberta Library
Publishing OER that Further Student Belonging: Insights and Questions [video]
Sarah Hare, she/ her, Open Educational Resources Librarian, UC Santa Cruz; Alexandra Marcaccio, she/they, AtlanticOER Lead, Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries (CAAL-CBPA)
From classroom to publication: Supporting course books through library publishing [video]
Ioana Liuta, Digital Publishing Librarian, Simon Fraser University; Jennifer Zerkee, Copyright Specialist, Simon Fraser University
Scholarly Publishing Partnerships Through Book Proposal Development [video]
Agnes Gambill, Head of Scholarly Communications, Appalachian State University
Greetings and an Update from IFLA’s Library Publishing Section [video]
Ann Okerson, IFLA Library Publishing Section; and IFLA North America Regional Committee
FULL SESSION | HUB 250
Oh No, a Table! Library Publishing Experiences in PDF Accessibility and Remediation Work at Large Universities
Angela Watters, she/her, Digital Publishing Specialist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Angel Peterson, she/her, Production Specialist & Accessibility Coordinator, Penn State University; Iliana Cosme-Brooks, she/her, Open Publishing Coordinator, Virginia Tech Publishing & Press; Kate Sheridan, she/her, Publishing Librarian, University of Minnesota
HANDS ON | HUB 214
Putting Open Values to Work: Collaborations between Library Publishers and Open Infrastructures to Sustain Open Workflows in OA Book and OER Publishing
Harrison Inefuku (he/his), Iowa State University Digital Press; Steel Wagstaff, Pressbooks; Andy Byers, Janeway; Toby Steiner (he/his), Thoth Open Metadata;
11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. | Break
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
INDIVIDUAL | North Ballroom
Do As I Say, Not As I Do: How Scholarly Publishers’ Disclose Their Use of Artificial Intelligence
Teresa Schultz, she/her/hers, Scholarly Communications & Social Sciences Librarian, University of Nevada, Reno
Establishing an Advisory Board: Process, Practice, and Lessons Learned
Corinne Guimont (she/her), Director, Virginia Tech Publishing & Press, Virginia Tech; Patrick Tomlin (he/him), Associate Dean, Academic and Creative Engagement, Virginia Tech
Building a Publishing Program with AI Assistance: A Case Study from Access Services in Libraries, Inc.
Karen Glover, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Access, Georgia Institute of Technology Library
FULL SESSION | HUB 250
We Make the Rules: Rewriting Norms in Library-Based Journal Publishing
Amanda Larson, AERI Program Coordinator, She, Her, Hers, The Ohio State University; Kristina Clement, Assistant Director of Academic Engagement and Instruction, Collegiate Librarians, Kennesaw State University, she, her, hers; Chelsee Dickson, Assistant Director of Academic Engagement and Instruction, Scholarly Publishing & Research, Kennesaw State University, she, her, hers; Sabrina Davis, Access & User Services Librarian, Texas Tech University, she, her, hers
FULL SESSION | HUB 214
Libraries and Publishers in Support of Black and Indigenous Voices
Tracie D. Hall, Executive Director, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance; Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero, Director, University of Guam Press; Allison Levy, Director, Brown University Digital Publications (chair)
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. | Lunch | North Ballroom
1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
HANDS ON | North Ballroom
Unearthing Diamond OA: Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Publishing
Sharla Lair, Lyrasis; Catherine Mitchell, she/her, Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library; Emily Goff, she/her, President, Goff Group LLC; Kate McCready, she/her, Program Director for Open Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance
HANDS ON | HUB 250
Constructive Conversations with Authors
Angela Watters (she/her), Digital Publishing Specialist, Illinois Open Publishing Network, University Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Corinne Guimont (she/her), Director of Virginia Tech Publishing and Press
BOAF | HUB 214
Getting Up to Speed with Journal Hosting in the Library
Nancy Foasberg, she/her, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Villanova University
2:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Break
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
HANDS ON | North Ballroom
Altered State Publishing: Workshop on Designing Workflows for Alternative Publishing
Mackenzie Salisbury, (she/her) Curriculum Innovation Librarian, Northwestern University; Basia Kapolka, (she/they), Digital Humanities Librarian, Northwestern University
FULL SESSION | HUB 250
Sustaining Scholarly Texts: A Collaborative Approach to TEI Publishing
Anna Siebach-Larsen, She/Her, Director, Rossell Hope Robbins Library and Koller-Collins Center for English Studies, University of Rochester; Chad Nelson, Technical Team Manager, California Digital Library, University of California; Zach Davis, Partner, Cast Iron Coding; Dana Johnson, Frontend Team Lead, Cast Iron Coding
BOAF | HUB 214
The Contract as Compliance: Negotiating Privacy and Accessibility in Library Publishing [slides]
Ellen Dubinsky (she/her), Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Arizona; Michele Gibney (she/her), Visiting Program Officer – Privacy & Surveillance, SPARC / Head of Publishing and Scholarship Support, University of the Pacific
3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Break
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Reception
Thursday, June 18
7:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast | North Ballroom
8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. | Plenary Panel [video] | North Ballroom
Melanie Walsh, University of Washington; Sandy Littletree and Carole Palmer, University of Washington [slides]; Tracie Hall, HBCU Library Alliance [slides]
9:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. | Break
9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions
WATCH PARTY #2 (pre-recorded presentations) | North Ballroom
From Vulnerabilities to Verification: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication in OJS
Brianna Calomino (she/her) Digital Projects Librarian, Scholarly Publishing, University of Calgary; Gabriela Mircea (she/her), Digital Projects Librarian, University of Calgary
Understanding the Labor Behind Library-Published Scholarly Journals in the United States [video] [slides]
Karen Bjork (she/her) Head of Digital Libraries and Publishing, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU); Annie Johnson (she/her) Associate University Librarian for Research, Teaching, and Technology, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press; Johanna Meetz (she/her), Publishing & Repository Services Librarian, The Ohio State University
Making the Invisible Visible: Using Open Data to Surface Diamond Journals in Canada [video]
Jeanette Hatherill, she/her, Senior Coordinator, Coalition Publica; Simon van Bellen, Érudit
Leveraging consortial infrastructure to sustain open publishing: The STORK case study at the University of Ottawa [video]
Leigh-Ann Butler (elle | she/her), University of Ottawa; Bart Kawula, Web and Discovery Services Librarian, Scholars Portal
‘Infrastructuring’ inclusive open access: the case of DOAJ journal indexing criteria [video]
Ivonne Lujano, Community Manager, She/her, Directory of Open Access Journals
BOAF | HUB 250
From Practice to Profession: Advancing Open Education’s Place in Scholarly Publishing and Academic Recognition
Amanda Larson, AERI Program Coordinator, She, Her, Hers, The Ohio State University; Chelsee Dickson, Assistant Director of Academic Engagement and Instruction, Scholarly Publishing & Research, Kennesaw State University, she, her, hers
FULL SESSION | HUB 214
From Growing Pains to Sustainability: Proven Strategies for Maturing Library & OER Publishing Programs
Lauren Ray, they/them, Open Education Librarian at University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington; Kate McNally Carter, Coordinator of Open Education Services, University of Houston Libraries; Pamela Herrington-Moriarty, Alamo Colleges District; Steel Wagstaff, Customer Experience Lead, Pressbooks
10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Break
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION | North Ballroom
Introducing Digital Press Plus: A Press/Vendor Collaboration for Supplementary Teaching Materials
Harrison W. Inefuku, Digital Press Lead, Iowa State University; Andy Byers, Director of Publishing Technology, Birkbeck University of London; Abbey K. Elder, she/they, Open Education Services Librarian, Iowa State University
HANDS ON | HUB 250
Mapping the Research Nexus: A Hands-on Guide to Retrieving Relationship Metadata
Shayn Smulyan (he/him), Technical Support Specialist, Crossref; Jason Portenoy (he/him), Data Scientist, Crossref
INDIVIDUAL | HUB 214
From Research to Publication: Building an Integrated Pipeline for Undergraduate Scholarly Communication Through Journal Publishing and Pedagogy
Reya Saliba, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar; Kira Dreher, Associate Dean, Community Excellence / Associate Teaching Professor, English, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar; Jeffrey Squires, Associate Teaching Professor, English, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Collaborating to Build an Undergraduate Publishing Certificate: Library-English Partnerships Centering Student Experience and Workforce Readiness
Kathy Essmiller, Ph.D. Associate Professor. OSU Libraries, Coordinator | OpenOKState, Oklahoma State University; Aimee Parkison, Professor, OSU English Department; Veronica Cabellero, Student, OSU
Teaching Publishing Literacy to New Authors: Benefits of OER as a Course-Agnostic, Point-of-Need Tool
Martha Stuit, she/her, Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of California, Santa Cruz; Sarah Hare, she/her, Open Educational Resources Librarian, University of California, Santa Cruz
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | Lunch
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
INDIVIDUAL | North Ballroom
Media-Neutral Publishing Enabled by the OS-APS Single-Source Workflow
Dominik Baumgartner, Managing Director of FAU University Press, University Library at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Building Scalable Library Publishing Through Shared Infrastructure: Updates on Meru and the Next Generation Library Publishing Project
Sarah Lippincott, she/her, Product Owner, Next Generation Library Publishing; Zach Davis, he/him, Founder and CEO, Cast Iron Coding
Platform Postmortem: Learning from Ten Years of Publishing Digital Scholarship with an Out-of-the-Box Tool
Daniel G. Tracy, Head, Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
INDIVIDUAL | HUB 250
We Are the Stories we Tell Ourselves: Articulating Impact and Value When Downloads Mean Nothing
Dylan Mohr (he/him), Open Scholarship Librarian, Syracuse University
Analyzing Disparities and Trends in Article Processing Charges Publishing: A Case Study of the University of Houston
Xiao Zeng (she/her) Open Publishing Librarian, University of Houston
INDIVIDUAL | HUB 214
From Archives to Wikipedia in the Classroom: A CUNY Library Partnership Case Study
Jojo Karlin (she/her), Scholarly Communications Manager, City University of New York (CUNY); Krystyna Michael, Assistant Professor, CUNY Hostos Community College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Accessibility Success through CPACC Certification: A Penn State Case Study
Angel Peterson, she/her, Production Specialist and Accessibility Coordinator, Penn State University Libraries; Jules Luck, they/them, Accessibility and Production Specialist, Penn State University Libraries
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Therapy Dogs, partnered with COLLEGE DOGS OF WASHINGTON | Mural Room (No food or drink allowed. Dog treats will be provided at the end of the session.)
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Break
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
HANDS ON | North Ballroom
Finding Your Place in Open Source Software: A Hands-on Workshop for First-Time Contributors
Steel Wagstaff, he/him, Customer Experience Lead, Pressbooks; Zach Davis, President, Cast Iron Coding (Manifold)
HANDS ON | HUB 250
Measure What Matters: A Workshop on Developing Rubrics for Journal Evaluation and Growth
Justin Gonder, Senior Product Manager, Publishing, California Digital Library; Charlotte Roh (she/her) Publications Manager, California Digital Library; Amanda Karby, Publications Manager, California Digital Library
INDIVIDUAL | HUB 214
Testing Community-Owned Infrastructure: Lessons from the Open Education Network’s Ketty Pilot
Karen Lauritsen, Senior Director, Publishing, Open Education Network, Open Education Network, University of Minnesota; Bailey Lake, she/her, Open Strategies Librarian, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries
Staffing Survey Task Force Results & Report
Miranda Phair, Publishing & Open Scholarship Librarian, Towson University; Melissa Chim, Excelsior University; Michelle Brailey, University of Alberta; Lauren Collister, Invest in Open Infrastructure; Heather Hankins, Kennesaw State University; Alyssa Huffman, Wayne State University; Bailey Lake, Eastern Kentucky University; Barbara Loomis, Cleveland State University; Donna O’Malley, University of Vermont; Anita Walz, Virginia Tech
OPEN FL Publishing Program: An OER Win
Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Director, Digital Services + OER, Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC); Elisabeth Ball, Program Manager, Digital Services + OER, FLVC
3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. | Break
3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
FULL SESSION | North Ballroom
From Librarians to Authors: Revising Pub101 to Expand Open Publishing Support
Karen Lauritsen, she, her, hers, Senior Director – Publishing, Open Education Network; Amanda Larson, AERI Program Coordinator, The Ohio State University, she, her, hers
BOAF | HUB 250
What Works at Scale? A Conversation on Consortial Library Publishing
Jessica Kirschner, she/her, Digital Publishing Coordinator, VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium; Amanda Hurford, she/her, Scholarly Communications Director, PALNI
HANDS ON | HUB 214
Bring Levity by Leveraging Zines and Hands-on Publishing
Allison Brown (she/her), Digital Publishing Services Manager, SUNY Geneseo; Francis Harte, SUNY Geneseo
4:50 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks | North Ballroom