Day/Time/Room
June 17, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | North Ballroom
Title: The ZTC Buzz: Sharing our Zero Textbook Cost Campus Tour
Presenter: Michelle Brailey, University of Alberta Library
Description: Through spring and Summer 2025 our library publishing team embarked on a zero textbook cost (ZTC) campus tour. With the goal of talking to every department on campus, we engaged with librarians, the students’ union, and we delivered 28 presentations across campus about our ZTC program and supporting library services! This presentation would highlight the process of coordinating this outreach on a large campus, share the faulty perspectives we encountered and reflect on our experience for others interest in engaging their campus around ZTC.
Title: Publishing OER that Further Student Belonging: Insights and Questions
Presenters:
- Sarah Hare, she/ her, Open Educational Resources Librarian, UC Santa Cruz
- Alexandra Marcaccio, she/they, AtlanticOER Lead, Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries (CAAL-CBPA)
Description: Student belonging continues to be an important professional development topic for instructors because of its connection to increased retention. At the same time, because Open Educational Resources (OER) can be edited, they have been touted as a potential solution for furthering Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the classroom. But which edits to OER would be most impactful for actually furthering students’ sense of belonging? And what role do library publishers play in encouraging faculty authors to implement these best practices?
This session will present results from a qualitative research study that asked fourteen UC Santa Cruz undergraduate students to reflect on existing OER in order to better understand what impedes their sense of belonging. The study’s more exploratory and open-ended approach, which invited students to reflect on OER as they currently are with minimal prompting, was intended to identify barriers that may not have previously surfaced when assessing modified OER. The webinar will highlight key questions faculty authors should ask themselves about course reading language, organization, and purpose in order to edit OER with student belonging in mind.
The presentation will conclude with a reflection about library publishers might operationalize best practices such as the ones found in our study. In University Presses, developmental editors often take on this role, prompting authors to follow style guides, refine the organization of their arguments, and advocate for potential readers’ needs. But in library publishing, where roles are less well-defined and faculty may be more reticent to follow such guidelines, how might we ensure that the OER that are created as part of our programs are most effective for learners? Whose responsibility is this and how do we keep learners at the forefront of our publishing process?
Title: From classroom to publication: Supporting course books through library publishing
Presenters:
- Ioana Liuta, Digital Publishing Librarian, Simon Fraser University
- Jennifer Zerkee, Copyright Specialist, Simon Fraser University
Description: Open course publications offer students meaningful, real-world experience with the scholarly publishing process, positioning them as knowledge creators rather than passive consumers. As an example of open pedagogy in action, course books created as part of credit-bearing courses allow students to engage directly with research, authorship, editorial workflows, and publication practices. Supporting these projects has become one of the most impactful contributions of library digital publishing programs, advancing student engagement and learning while reinforcing the value of open access and publicly engaged scholarship. This session presents a case study of supporting in-class course book publishing through a sustained collaboration between the library and an instructor. It describes how academic librarians work with instructors to plan and support a course publication from the classroom to final publication. This includes scoping the assignment, aligning pedagogical goals with publishing workflows, delivering in-class instruction on scholarly publishing concepts, and providing ongoing consultation and production support throughout the term. We examine course books as a form of library publishing practice and reflect on the benefits and challenges of embedding publishing into the curriculum. This presentation highlights how in-class publishing projects enable collaboration, knowledge sharing, and student engagement, while also requiring coordination, communication, and labour planning. By situating course books within the broader library publishing ecosystem, this session offers insight into how libraries can support meaningful, curriculum-integrated publishing projects that extend student work beyond the classroom and into the scholarly record.
Title: Scholarly Publishing Partnerships Through Book Proposal Development
Presenter: Agnes Gambill, Head of Scholarly Communications, Appalachian State University
Description: Crafting a compelling book proposal is both an art and a strategic exercise that sits at the intersection of scholarly rigor, craft, and market awareness. Faculty authors from R2 institutions struggle with navigating a complex and competitive scholarly publishing landscape, and many need assistance developing a book proposal, which has become a genre of its own. Library publishers and university presses now find a shared purpose in helping faculty scholars articulate their ideas, find relevant presses, work with editors, and get published. This presentation explores how university presses and library publishers can collaborate through the book proposal development process to help aspiring faculty authors develop book proposals that catch the attention of editors and lead to book deals. Using a case study from Appalachian State University, this presentation will describe how library publishers and university presses can partner to support faculty during the book proposal development stage, using collaborative models, such as workshops and consultations, to help faculty craft stronger book proposals. This presentation will also examine how library publishers can identify and build sustainable cross-campus partnerships that improve the overall faculty author experience and strengthen publishing pipelines that support both open and traditional models of dissemination. Finally, this presentation will examine the core components of an effective proposal and highlight how library publishers are uniquely positioned to facilitate relationships between university presses and faculty authors.
Title: IFLA LIBPUB
Presenter: Ann Okerson, IFLA LIBPUB
Description: TBD