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SUMMARY:Breakfast
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CATEGORIES:BREAKFAST
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/23231812652e33f7dc643b25e9df2f11
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DTSTART:20260617T153000Z
DTEND:20260617T154500Z
SUMMARY:Opening Remarks
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CATEGORIES:REMARKS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/942123f605773add0aebd80cb077f003
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DTSTART:20260617T154500Z
DTEND:20260617T164500Z
SUMMARY:Keynote
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CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/00a408196f75d0602eada644c99a31d4
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DTSTART:20260617T164500Z
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SUMMARY:Break
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/fac347d674c31e436c4497b09dadbd92
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DTSTART:20260617T170000Z
DTEND:20260617T180000Z
SUMMARY:Oh No\, a Table! Library Publishing Experiences in PDF Accessibility and Remediation Work at Large Universities
DESCRIPTION:Due to the new regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\, library publishers are responsible for making their publications—both the content and their platforms—accessible. This roundtable discussion will have representatives from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, Virginia Tech\, Penn State University\, and University of Minnesota discuss the unique challenges of creating accessible content. These challenges include working with different publishing platforms\, publication types\, and accessibility tools\; applying best practices and creating workflows\; and working with publication outputs\, namely PDFs. Panelists will also discuss how changes in publishing and accessibility technologies have changed their approaches to remediation work (e.g.\, updates to screen readers) as well as specific remediation challenges\, like writing and placing long descriptions for complex images and tagging tables. This presentation will address best practices and challenges creating accessible content\, from the source file or platform export to the final tagged PDF. Panelists will also discuss the unique needs and use cases of scholarly publications and their experiences communicating those needs to their universities.
CATEGORIES:FULL SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/2ac664c4c37dbc58d97f5b0bbe25ddce
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T170000Z
DTEND:20260617T180000Z
SUMMARY:Putting Open Values to Work: Collaborations between Library Publishers and Open Infrastructures to Sustain Open Workflows in OA Book and OER Publishing
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will provide insights into the ongoing activities to adopt open workflows within library publishing. Via the example of Iowa State University Digital Press\, we will explore how libraries can collaborate with open infrastructures such as Thoth Open Metadata\, Janeway\, and Pressbooks to implement open practices utilising open data and open protocols to improve findability of their valuable outputs.\nISU Digital Press is considering the adoption of an open ecosystem of interoperable\, community-led infrastructures\, covering aspects of editorial (Janeway & Pressbooks) and metadata management (Thoth Open Metadata)\, hosting and distribution (Thoth Open Metadata & OAPEN)\, discoverability (Directory of Open Access Books\, multiple aggregators via Thoth)\, archiving (Thoth Open Archiving Network)\, and usage monitoring (OPERAS/Thoth) of open access books.\nBy collaborating to ensure interoperability and accessible\, seamless workflows across vital infrastructures that meet individual publisher needs\, we showcase how a more robust\, sustainable\, and equitable ecosystem for open access books is being embedded by library publishers. We will also seek to shed light on questions and issues that have emerged during the adoption of those open workflows\, such as that of mapping different forms of long-form publishing outputs (e.g. textbooks\, OER in a broader sense) onto metadata management\, dissemination\, and archiving processes to ensure long-term availability of those open resources\,\nFollowing a round of brief introductory presentations from Iowa State University Digital Press\, and the infrastructures involved\, we invite participants to engage in an open discussion of the topics raised\, to learn more about attendants’ backgrounds\, needs\, and recommendations – with an aim to scope applicability of the proposed workflows to different national and regional contexts and corresponding specificities that exist in library publishing across the globe.\n\n
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
UID:17434efd15a2bcfb017ac72cff9334ba
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/17434efd15a2bcfb017ac72cff9334ba
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T170000Z
DTEND:20260617T180000Z
SUMMARY:WP1: From classroom to publication: Supporting course books through library publishing
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.\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all watch party 1 presentations.
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/a750172952eea63882b99f56e1d45b57
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SUMMARY:WP1: Greetings and an Update from IFLA’s Library Publishing Section
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all watch party 1 presentations.
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:9e9580b82e182a169a1c5f7032975e0a
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/9e9580b82e182a169a1c5f7032975e0a
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
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DTEND:20260617T180000Z
SUMMARY:WP1: Publishing OER that Further Student Belonging: Insights and Questions
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?\nThis 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.\nThe 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?\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all watch party 1 presentations. \n\n
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/7a65a19064570f7f4aac5ec53fc06128
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SUMMARY:WP1: Scholarly Publishing Partnerships Through Book Proposal Development
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. &nbsp\;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. &nbsp\;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. &nbsp\;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. &nbsp\;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.\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all watch party 1 presentations.
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:9f30ba16d2868df1d48a80bc5fb00aef
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/9f30ba16d2868df1d48a80bc5fb00aef
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SUMMARY:WP1: The ZTC Buzz: Sharing our Zero Textbook Cost Campus Tour
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.\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all watch party 1 presentations.
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:4edeef5113b55ad4459e9d1118df9836
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/4edeef5113b55ad4459e9d1118df9836
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T180000Z
DTEND:20260617T181500Z
SUMMARY:Break
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:f04e388466dccf8a55a2753f49aa7170
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/f04e388466dccf8a55a2753f49aa7170
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DTSTART:20260617T181500Z
DTEND:20260617T191500Z
SUMMARY:Libraries and Publishers in Support of Black and Indigenous Voices
DESCRIPTION:Building on work by the Association of University Presses’ Library Relations Committee and initiatives spearheaded by leaders of the HBCU Library Alliance\, University of Vermont Press\, and University of Guam Press\, this panel demonstrates how libraries and university presses can develop and sustain support models for Black and Indigenous scholars. We will discuss training and mentoring programs\, intentional acquisitions and peer review practices\, open access and other equity concerns.
CATEGORIES:FULL SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/95325e8d7056ae71ca29a2619c70e502
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DTSTART:20260617T181500Z
DTEND:20260617T191500Z
SUMMARY:We Make the Rules: Rewriting Norms in Library-Based Journal Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Academic journals are foundational infrastructure for emerging scholarly fields\, yet launching and sustaining one within a library publishing context presents unique operational\, staffing\, and governance challenges. This session presents a detailed case study of the Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE)\, tracing its evolution from a three-person passion project to a structured\, values-guided publishing initiative with a robust editorial and production ecosystem.\nIn this session\, we outline the processes and scaffolding that have supported JOERHE’s growth\, including: establishing governance roles and workflows\; recruiting and training editorial and production staff\; defining quality assurance checkpoints\; implementing publication platforms and tooling\; and crafting documentation for consistency and onboarding. We’ll share practical metrics and milestones\, such as editorial turnaround times\, role definitions\, and staffing transitions\, to illustrate how operational choices impact sustainability.\nAttendees will gain insights into balancing volunteer contributions with structured responsibilities\, aligning journal values with operational practices\, and leveraging library publishing resources to support emerging scholars. We’ll also discuss how we manage cross-institutional collaboration\, inclusive recruitment practices\, and capacity building for early-career contributors interested in editorial participation.\nBy focusing on what it takes to manage and grow a library-supported journal\, this session offers actionable guidance for academic libraries\, library publishing programs\, and collaborative publishing initiatives seeking to launch\, refine\, or scale their own journals. Participants will leave with concrete strategies and templates to help them operationalize editorial standards\, build resilient workflows\, and support community participation in scholarly publishing.\n\n
CATEGORIES:FULL SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/b6f2052f532f593f3c3d630d6d989dff
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SUMMARY:IP1: Building a Publishing Program with AI Assistance: A Case Study from Access Services in Libraries\, Inc.
DESCRIPTION:Access Services in Libraries\, Inc. (ASIL)\, a small\, volunteer-run nonprofit best known for the Access Services Conference\, has long supported practitioner scholarship but lacked a formal publishing venue. In 2025\, ASIL began developing a publishing arm\, including a new open-access journal and structured conference proceedings. This case study shares how the organization uses AI tools to accelerate planning\, documentation\, and workflow design while maintaining strong human oversight.\nThe session will outline how AI supported early-stage work such as shaping the journal’s scope\, drafting policies and reviewer guidelines\, developing metadata and workflow structures\, and generating a multi-phase implementation roadmap. It will also discuss the organizational considerations necessary for sustainability\, including governance models\, staffing\, and technical infrastructure.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:4ed049bb77101d32c8b25cf580e4c758
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/4ed049bb77101d32c8b25cf580e4c758
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T181500Z
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SUMMARY:IP1: Do As I Say\, Not As I Do: How Scholarly Publishers’ Disclose Their Use of Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Since generative artificial intelligence (AI) models hit the big time in 2023\, many involved in scholarly communications have pushed for rules and policies around how authors and peer reviewers may or may not use these tools in their work and how they should disclose such use if they do\, with many publishers enacting such policies. However\, little attention has been paid to whether and how scholarly publishers disclose their own use of AI. This can include using AI in their publishing workflows\, such as copy editing and image creation\, but extends beyond as well. News items have reported on multi-million dollar deals publishers have made with tech companies to license their content to train AI tools or how scholarly publishers are creating their own AI tools based on their corpus of content.\nThis presentation seeks to bring more attention to this issue by sharing the results of a content analysis of the largest scholarly publishers’ websites as well as the websites of their top journals. The analysis looked for publicly available language provided by the publishers about how they use AI and then analyzed the content through a lens of performative disclosure vs. meaningful disclosure. The presentation will also discuss how this issue affects library publishing programs and best practices that libraries should consider when deciding whether they need their own disclosure policies or how they should advise their editors and other participants. Even those who are not actively using AI are still part of the scholarly communications ecosystem\, which means they are likely affected indirectly by AI.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/a7ebd0e7acbed0cfeeacba017025a092
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SUMMARY:IP1: Establishing an Advisory Board: Process\, Practice\, and Lessons Learned
DESCRIPTION:Although editorial processes vary among library publishers and university presses\, advisory boards are often a common means of providing guidance for publishing programs and publication review at various stages. In 2024\, Virginia Tech Publishing & Press (VTP&P) sought to create an advisory board to support strategic planning\, review publication proposals\, and represent the university and scholarly community at large. In this presentation\, we will share our process for establishing our advisory board\, from creating a charge for the group\, identifying members\, building rapport and communication among the group\, and creating a workflow for reviewing incoming proposals. We will cover the various ways publishers and presses can work with an advisory board and what role they may play in the publishing process. We will also share some of the challenges and opportunities this process provided and continues to provide\, such as the ongoing challenge to determine how much we share with the board and what level of decision making power they have\, as well as the opportunity to use the board as a sounding board for new ideas and potential areas of growth. The presentation will cover how we have built in reflection points to learn what is working and what is not and how we have used that feedback to implement change over time and improve the process for both our board members and our program.
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/6012f2e3b7291e940080af8b1e3fbe7e
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DTSTART:20260617T191500Z
DTEND:20260617T201500Z
SUMMARY:Lunch
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CATEGORIES:LUNCH
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:80eb585c5fbc9152f1780fd2bff17744
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/80eb585c5fbc9152f1780fd2bff17744
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DTSTART:20260617T201500Z
DTEND:20260617T211500Z
SUMMARY:Getting Up to Speed with Journal Hosting in the Library
DESCRIPTION:Library publishing often relies on librarians taking on journal “hosting” or publishing roles\, despite having little experience with publishing. Key to this role is working with editors\, who may also be new to the “back end” of publishing. Whether nurturing a collection of existing journals\, or guiding a new journal toward its first issue\, it can be challenging to build relationships with editors\, understand the needs of the journals\, and build the necessary skills. As a librarian who is still relatively new to library publishing\, I am interested in the practices\, ideas\, and challenges of others who are working with similar programs.\nThe session will be a semi-structured discussion intended to provide librarians an opportunity to ask questions and share strategies. Likely discussion topics include:\n• Strategies for communicating with editors and understanding their needs\n• Identifying and prioritizing useful library interventions (some possibilities: indexing\, preservation\, and accessibility)\n• Resources and strategies for learning about publishing\n• Decision making around taking on new journals\n• Development of policies to guide this work\nIn order to help attendees turn this conversation into action\, we will use a notes document to gather suggestions and resources.\n\n
CATEGORIES:BOAF
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/ebea358a418bd6deb597e704a02111f0
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DTSTART:20260617T201500Z
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SUMMARY:Constructive Conversations with Authors
DESCRIPTION:Working with authors can be a rewarding\, complex\, and sometimes frustrating process. Expectations can vary\, emotions can run high\, and communication can be misinterpreted. How can publishing professionals more effectively provide and receive constructive feedback to facilitate meaningful conversations? In 2024\, Angela Watters and Corinne Guimont were assigned as peer mentors through the LPC Peer Mentor program and through our conversations we shared our experiences working with complex projects and authors and the strategies we took to navigate these situations.\nIn this workshop\, we plan to share some of our strategies within the framework from the books Crucial Conversations and Thanks for the Feedback. We will examine the three types of feedback (appreciation\, coaching\, and evaluation) and how to both give and receive feedback especially when the stakes are high\, opinions vary\, and emotions are strong (as is often the case when working with an author who is sharing work they have been committed to for several years). We will share the general frameworks and ideas presented by the two books and then provide publishing specific scenarios for attendees to discuss in small groups and then share back to the larger group. We will also provide time for attendees to share their own experiences and strategies for navigating complex\, yet constructive\, conversations with authors.\n\n
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/37b2c1c6ccf45a8e2949718fd5605845
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DTSTART:20260617T201500Z
DTEND:20260617T211500Z
SUMMARY:Unearthing Diamond OA: Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Publishing
DESCRIPTION:This session is part of the Gates Foundation funded project\, Mapping Diamond Open Access Journals: A Nationwide Study of the U.S. Scholarly Publishing Landscape\, conducted by Lyrasis\, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Center for Library Programs\, and the California Digital Library\, with assessment support from Goff Group LLC. The project seeks to generate a comprehensive understanding of the U.S. Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing ecosystem to strengthen non-commercial scholarly communication and mobilize stakeholders for investment\, infrastructure\, and policy guidance. A central component of the project is a national survey of Diamond OA publishers\, complemented by interviews and focus groups\, to better understand who is publishing Diamond OA journals\, how this work is organized and resourced\, and where key challenges and opportunities lie.\nIn this interactive session\, we will share a preview of preliminary survey results\, inviting library publishers\, the core constituency for this project\, to engage in the early stages of meaning making of the data. Participants will be asked to reflect on whether the findings align with lived experience\, what feels missing or mischaracterized\, and what additional questions or areas of focus should shape the next phase of the project. Feedback from the library publishing community is essential for validating findings\, identifying gaps\, and ensuring the project reflects community priorities.\nFacilitated discussion will allow attendees to share needs\, highlight challenges and successes\, and explore what forms of support would most meaningfully strengthen Diamond OA journal publishing. Participants will engage directly with project team members\, contributing insights that surveys alone cannot capture and helping guide subsequent analysis and project directions.\n\n
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:7e01db3e36d9853ef85e80a89d3ee57a
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/7e01db3e36d9853ef85e80a89d3ee57a
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T211500Z
DTEND:20260617T213000Z
SUMMARY:Break
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d0ae7063f43085b6b1fc62e4515401ea
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/d0ae7063f43085b6b1fc62e4515401ea
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T213000Z
DTEND:20260617T223000Z
SUMMARY:The Contract as Compliance: Negotiating Privacy and Accessibility in Library Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Library publishers are responsible for more than just the content we publish\; we are responsible for the containers we put it in. While we champion Open Access\, the infrastructure we lease from vendors often undermines the values we claim to uphold.\nConsider the reality of our vendor platforms: You can have perfectly accessible PDFs\, but if a blind author cannot navigate the submission dashboard\, your program is exclusionary. Similarly\, you can remove the financial paywall for your readers\, but if your vendor replaces it with a surveillance dragnet\, you haven’t made the research free—you’ve just changed the currency.\nThe commercial surveillance of user data in academic systems continues to grow unchecked. The April 2026 Department of Justice (DOJ) deadline for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance has passed\, leaving libraries to face legal liability for the accessibility of these third-party platforms. We cannot code our way out of these problems\; we must negotiate our way out.\nThis session frames the license agreement as the library’s and library publisher’s most powerful tool for enforcing equity. We will present SPARC’s work on privacy contract negotiation alongside an initial landscape analysis of accessibility clauses. Participants will discuss how to move beyond checking the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) to demanding binding contract language that protects user data and ensures legal compliance. Join us to strategize how we can hold our infrastructure vendors accountable to our values and the law.\n\n
CATEGORIES:BOAF
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/451ddb4dcf1843cf15a63997075b8605
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DTSTART:20260617T213000Z
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SUMMARY:Sustaining Scholarly Texts: A Collaborative Approach to TEI Publishing
DESCRIPTION:TEI is a mature technology for encoding scholarly texts\, but publishing those texts on the web in a sustainable\, maintainable way can be challenging. Projects invest significant effort in encoding content\, only to find that rendering and long-term maintenance present their own set of problems. And while XSLT has long been the default tool for TEI transformation\, it comes with tradeoffs—browser support is being deprecated\, the learning curve is steep\, and many projects find themselves maintaining bespoke pipelines that are difficult to update or hand off to new staff.\nWhen the University of Rochester’s Rossell Hope Robbins Library received NEH funding to modernize the Middle English Text Series (METS)\, the goal was straightforward: replace an aging Drupal site with something modern and sustainable. What emerged was a modern alternative to XSLT-based rendering: a Rails GraphQL API with a React frontend that harvests TEI documents\, normalizes them\, and renders them in a responsive web reader. The same TEI files also flow to InDesign for print production\, giving Rochester a true single-source publishing pipeline.\nA year later\, the California Digital Library faced a related problem. They had nearly 1\,900 UC Press e-books encoded in TEI\, but the in-house system used to render them had become difficult to maintain. Standard XSLT transformation tools proved unworkable for their collection. But the parsing engine developed for Rochester offered a path forward. CDL commissioned an adaptation to convert their TEI into static\, sustainable HTML\, a concrete example of library publishers building on each other’s investments.\nThis panel brings together the library publishers and developers behind both projects to discuss the promises and pain points of TEI-based publishing. We’ll share practical lessons on building modern TEI pipelines and reflect on how grant-funded infrastructure can benefit institutions beyond the original project.\n\n
CATEGORIES:FULL SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/ca339c5307260e02f50c68b3f1876fc7
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T213000Z
DTEND:20260617T223000Z
SUMMARY:Altered State Publishing: Workshop on Designing Workflows for Alternative Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Library publishers have developed robust workflows for digital journals and open educational resources (OER). Yet\, the vast majority of our physical collections remain static\, “finished” products of a traditional\, often exclusionary canon. While critical pedagogy encourages students to “remix” and “intervene” in these texts\, libraries lack the publishing infrastructure to legitimize and preserve these physical interventions.\nThis workshop proposes a new model: “Guerilla Publishing.” In this model\, libraries do not just host finished books\; they act as platforms for student-authored “tipped-in” pages\, marginalia\, and physical inserts that critique or expand the existing collection\, utilizing weeded\, discarded\, or non-library books. Since this model challenges standard library operations\, this session functions as a design charrette. Participants will work collaboratively to blueprint the infrastructure required to turn “student projects” into a “published record.”\nWe will allow attendees to self select into one of two core operational hurdles to engage with:\n1. The Policy Layer: How do we distinguish between “defacement” and “enrichment”? We will draft a “Statement of Participatory Stewardship.”\n2. The Metadata Layer: How can cataloging workflows be adapted (e.g.\, local notes\, 590 fields\, linked digital surrogates) to make ephemeral student contributions discoverable?\nParticipants will leave with a collaborative “Guerilla Publishing Toolkit”—a draft framework for managing student-authored physical interventions in their own libraries. This session bridges the gap between critical library instruction and the operational realities of library publishing.\n\n
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:ba9325b4218f7bf688c59c3865329046
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/ba9325b4218f7bf688c59c3865329046
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T223000Z
DTEND:20260617T230000Z
SUMMARY:Break
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:350959fcf65cadf9a0d9c9fcd0f85dbb
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/350959fcf65cadf9a0d9c9fcd0f85dbb
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260617T230000Z
DTEND:20260618T010000Z
SUMMARY:Reception
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORIES:RECEPTION
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:88a2d6b072e1247fa754652d79a5f12c
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/88a2d6b072e1247fa754652d79a5f12c
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T144500Z
DTEND:20260618T153000Z
SUMMARY:Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORIES:BREAKFAST
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:a8131c2105d7711f92ddcb3b5af103e3
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/a8131c2105d7711f92ddcb3b5af103e3
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T153000Z
DTEND:20260618T163000Z
SUMMARY:Plenary Panel
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORIES:PLENARY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:decf105d2b460af624854d6b5338b2e3
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/decf105d2b460af624854d6b5338b2e3
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T163000Z
DTEND:20260618T164500Z
SUMMARY:Break
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:14aacde3b1d7d90ddff36a4e27b47692
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/14aacde3b1d7d90ddff36a4e27b47692
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T164500Z
DTEND:20260618T174500Z
SUMMARY:From Practice to Profession: Advancing Open Education’s Place in Scholarly Publishing and Academic Recognition
DESCRIPTION:Open education work—particularly where it intersects with library publishing\, open access\, OER creation\, and open pedagogy—plays an increasingly visible role in how libraries support teaching\, learning\, and scholarly communication. While this work is widely valued\, approaches to describing\, supporting\, and recognizing open education roles and contributions vary across institutions and contexts.\nThis Birds-of-a-Feather session will bring together library publishers\, open education practitioners\, scholars\, and collaborators for an informal\, facilitated conversation about how open education work is understood\, supported\, and sustained within library publishing ecosystems. The first portion of the session will focus on surfacing how participants currently navigate recognition and legitimacy for open education work within existing institutional and professional structures\, drawing on lived experience in their professional roles.\nThe second half of the session will turn toward collective reflection and possibility. Participants will discuss what it could look like for professional communities and groups like the emerging Open Education Association to serve as convening spaces for shared learning\, visibility\, and coordination. Rather than proposing fixed frameworks\, the conversation will center on identifying common values\, open questions\, and areas where collaboration could help professionalize the field of open education in relation to open publishing.\nThe session will be guided by structured prompts\, group discussion\, and a Padlet facilitating collective note-taking to highlight themes\, tensions\, and opportunities. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how peers across the library publishing and open education communities are approaching professional recognition in open publishing\, as well as a shared set of questions\, considerations\, and conversation starters that can inform future collaboration at local\, regional\, and national levels.\n\n
CATEGORIES:BOAF
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
UID:cba32a76329fb68660360f37bca34905
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/cba32a76329fb68660360f37bca34905
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T164500Z
DTEND:20260618T174500Z
SUMMARY:From Growing Pains to Sustainability: Proven Strategies for Maturing Library & OER Publishing Programs
DESCRIPTION:As library-based publishing and OER programs mature\, they encounter a predictable set of operational\, technical\, and strategic challenges that are often under-discussed until they arise. This panel brings together representatives from several institutions who have navigated common “growing pains” and developed sustainable strategies to strengthen their publishing programs over time. Panelists will share real-world approaches to issues such as supporting authors who start but do not complete projects\; managing user accounts and contributor turnover\; planning for new editions and post-grant sustainability\; establishing or refining peer-review\, copyediting\, and accessibility workflows\; and responsibly stewarding student-authored open pedagogy publications.\nPanelists will also discuss challenges that emerge as publishing programs mature\, including supporting faculty who have limited time or digital publishing experience\; coordinating multi-step pre-publication editorial processes\; maintaining consistent metadata and licensing practices\; ensuring accessibility compliance at scale\; supporting teaching & learning initiatives and improving student success\; and marketing and promoting successful publications. Examples may include implementing structured author onboarding\, developing editorial style guidelines\, introducing checklists or QA workflows\, integrating analytics to monitor impact\, incorporating formative assessment opportunities directly into teaching and learning material\, and achieving tighter integration between published content with an institution’s learning management system.\nThe session will be structured as a panel discussion with panelists discussing specific challenges\, followed by concrete demonstrations of strategies\, workflows\, and tools they’ve adopted to address the challenge. Solutions will encompass a range of ongoing approaches\, including the creation or adoption of policies\, workflows\, training and development opportunities\, and software tools (including Pressbooks) that have enabled library publishers to better accomplish their key priorities. The session will include a moderated discussion and audience Q&A\, giving attendees the opportunity to reflect on lessons learned\, share their own experiences\, and explore how these strategies can be applied in their own institutions.\n\n
CATEGORIES:FULL SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
UID:06e8dcd8698649b64241459c4ee091f9
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/06e8dcd8698649b64241459c4ee091f9
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T164500Z
DTEND:20260618T174500Z
SUMMARY:WP2: Books & More: An update from PKP on bibliodiversity and OMP
DESCRIPTION:This presentation shares an update on the Public Knowledge Project’s research into the needs of open publishing programs oriented towards books and other standalone content. It will summarise the findings of the Open Monograph Press (OMP) Under the Spotlight report\, including the technical roadmap for OMP\, an evaluation of publication type metadata that is informing efforts to better support more formats in scholarly communication\, and highlight partnerships advocating for bibliodiversity across the global publishing ecosystem. Finally\, it will outline the path forward for further exploration of the unique needs\, technical and otherwise\, of institutional publishers seeking to support long form content.\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all but one of the watch party 2 presentations. The link to view From Vulnerabilities to Verification is different\; see the presentation's description for the link to view.
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:145452e1622ceacb434af0a2f6209c9f
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/145452e1622ceacb434af0a2f6209c9f
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T164500Z
DTEND:20260618T174500Z
SUMMARY:WP2: From Vulnerabilities to Verification: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication in OJS
DESCRIPTION:This short presentation will share how our institution enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Open Journal Systems (OJS) to improve the security of editorial and administrative accounts. After a joint review with central IT\, we addressed common vulnerabilities\, outdated accounts\, shared logins\, and weak password practices through a careful cleanup and role reassignment to protect the integrity of our hosted journals.\nWith an upgrade\, staged testing\, and steady collaboration across departments\, we introduced MFA through the PKP OpenID Connect plugin and supported users through a smooth transition. The result is a more secure publishing environment with stronger protection for privileged accounts in line with institutional standards and a more dependable editorial publishing process. The talk will share the steps we followed\, the problems we encountered\, and the lessons that helped guide the process\, offering practical direction and valuable guidance for libraries planning similar improvements.\n\nNOTE: The video stream link for this presentation is separate and different from the link that goes to the playlist.\n\n
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:6eb19a74f3db3ff23a67c9bc7c226578
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/6eb19a74f3db3ff23a67c9bc7c226578
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T164500Z
DTEND:20260618T174500Z
SUMMARY:WP2: Leveraging consortial infrastructure to sustain open publishing: The STORK case study at the University of Ottawa
DESCRIPTION:In 2025\, the University of Ottawa Library was approached by an affiliated professor whose academic society\, the Society for Transparency\, Openness\, and Replication in Kinesiology (STORK)\, was about to lose funding for hosting its publishing activities on Open Monograph Press (OMP)\, Open Journal Systems (OMP)\, and Open Preprint Systems (OPS). Initially\, the professor asked if the library could provide financial support. However\, since the library already hosted journals on OJS\, it made more sense to migrate over the journal. The problem\, though\, was that at the time\, the uOttawa Library did not operate instances of OMP or OPS\, and with a constrained budget\, setting up new platforms with additional costs seemed uncertain.\nTo the rescue comes the consortia model! Leveraging the library’s membership with Scholars Portal and its shared infrastructure approach\, the library was able to implement new instances of OMP and OPS at no additional cost and begin migrating STORK’s publishing activities.\nSounds simple\, right? In reality\, it was doable but not seamless. We encountered technical hurdles\, it required additional staff time to sort out and develop new internal workflows as well as devote time to training\, and we learned valuable lessons along the way. In this session\, we will provide an overview of the project\, share lessons learned\, and discuss the partnership between the library and the consortium\, including the roles we each played.\nFor this project\, the shared infrastructure model proved essential to sustaining STORK’s three open publishing activities using the Public Knowledge Project’s software and highlights how consortia models can support sustainability for openness\, with benefits like reducing costs\, distributing workload across the teams\, minimizing technical burden\, and enabling knowledge sharing across teams.\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all but one of the watch party 2 presentations. The link to view From Vulnerabilities to Verification is different\; see the presentation's description for the link to view. \n\n
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:3f832b42b7388d5b8f923d52591024e1
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/3f832b42b7388d5b8f923d52591024e1
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T164500Z
DTEND:20260618T174500Z
SUMMARY:WP2: Making the Invisible Visible: Using Open Data to Surface Diamond Journals in Canada
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will introduce participants to an open\, community-maintained dataset that inventories active and historical Canadian scholarly journals\, compiled and stewarded by the Érudit research team as part of Coalition Publica. The dataset documents various characteristics of over a thousand Canadian peer-reviewed journals\, including ownership\, access models\, language\, and indexing status among others\, and offers rich insight into a national publishing ecosystem. Designed as an open resource\, the dataset is continuously improved through community contributions\, ensuring it remains accurate\, current\, and responsive to evolving library and publishing needs.\nThe presentation will briefly outline key characteristics of the journals represented in the dataset and discuss how libraries are already incorporating this open data into local tools to surface diamond open access journals alongside APC-based titles in read-and-publish agreements. By positioning non-commercial journals within the same decision-making and discovery contexts as commercial titles\, this information helps libraries present a more values-aligned and complete picture of publishing options available to their research communities.\nThe presentation concludes by reflecting on lessons learned from community engagement\, opportunities for further collaboration\, and the broader implications for library publishing in Canada and beyond.\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all but one of the watch party 2 presentations. The link to view From Vulnerabilities to Verification is different\; see the presentation's description for the link to view. \n\n
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:76d50fa8705d8f4fce788a7256284ae1
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/76d50fa8705d8f4fce788a7256284ae1
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T164500Z
DTEND:20260618T174500Z
SUMMARY:WP2: Understanding the Labor Behind Library-Published Scholarly Journals in the United State
DESCRIPTION:University libraries in the United States play a critical and growing role in supporting open access (OA) scholarly journals\, yet the labor required to sustain these publications—who performs it\, how much time it demands\, and how it is compensated—remains underexamined.\nRecent research by Lange & Severson examined labor in Canadian open access journals\, providing valuable insights into editorial structures and compensation models in that national context. However\, their study did not include journals hosted or published by U.S. university libraries. To expand this conversation and develop evidence to support local decision-making\, the presenters conducted a complementary research study focused specifically on U.S. members of the Library Publishing Coalition. Our study mirrors Lange & Severson’s methodological approach to allow for direct comparison between the two countries.\nThis presentation will share early findings from the U.S. survey and highlight noteworthy similarities and differences between U.S. and Canadian journal labor structures. By offering concrete data about how editorial labor is distributed and supported\, our goal is to equip library publishers with evidence they can use to shape their service models\, advocate for staffing and funding\, and better understand the sustainability needs of the journals they support.\n\nNOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all but one of the watch party 2 presentations. The link to view From Vulnerabilities to Verification is different\; see the presentation's description for the link to view. \n\n
CATEGORIES:WATCH PARTY
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:2d009ed2765637214296f639b7540666
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/2d009ed2765637214296f639b7540666
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T174500Z
DTEND:20260618T180000Z
SUMMARY:Break
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:5e0ac84f3a9811449eb008c21962c56f
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/5e0ac84f3a9811449eb008c21962c56f
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T180000Z
DTEND:20260618T190000Z
SUMMARY:Introducing Digital Press Plus: A Press/Vendor Collaboration for Supplementary Teaching Materials
DESCRIPTION:Many downstream users of open educational resources (OER) have concerns about the availability of supplemental materials such as presentation slides\, homework\, and lecture notes. Authors can make these materials available in several ways\; however\, many of the solutions commonly used obfuscate the availability of materials or put undue pressure on authors. In this presentation\, we introduce Digital Press +\, a repository that houses supplemental materials for books published by the Digital Press\, a publishing unit housed in the Iowa State University Library.\nThe Digital Press+\, funded by Iowa State University’s Course Affordability Jump Start Initiative\, was developed in partnership with the technology developers at the Open Library of Humanities alongside several updates to the team’s Books plug-in. The project connects content in the Digital Press’ repository plug-in to the materials in their books catalog\, allowing the simple cross-linking of connected materials. This also allows for external submissions\, which can facilitate the sharing of new materials to supplement and support previously published OER.\nThe collaborators who worked on the development of this project will share how the Digital Press + utilizes the capabilities of the linked repository and books plug-ins for the publication of OER. For others interested in supporting open source development projects like this one\, the presenters will share the process by which the team got grant funding for their work\, the steps it took to develop the project\, and other potential use cases of OLH’s repository plug-in for library publishers.\n\n
CATEGORIES:FULL SESSION
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d4711fabe1c96b35f4d714de20bb494d
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/d4711fabe1c96b35f4d714de20bb494d
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T180000Z
DTEND:20260618T190000Z
SUMMARY:Mapping the Research Nexus: A Hands-on Guide to Retrieving Relationship Metadata
DESCRIPTION:Scholarly publication metadata is scattered across multiple platforms\, but can be linked together to gain a more complete understanding of research networks and research outputs. This workshop provides practical skills for systematically collecting metadata from the Crossref\, ROR\, and ORCID APIs. Participants will work with customizable code notebooks\, learning to navigate API documentation\, configure authentication credentials\, and execute requests to retrieve relational metadata relevant to their publications\, institutions\, and authors.
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
UID:7fa16d7cd7ab462b5c4a3616aa373e8f
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/7fa16d7cd7ab462b5c4a3616aa373e8f
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T180000Z
DTEND:20260618T190000Z
SUMMARY:IP2: Collaborating to Build an Undergraduate Publishing Certificate: Library-English Partnerships Centering Student Experience and Workforce Readiness
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will explore how sustained collaboration between a university academic library publishing program and department of English grew from faculty creation and development of open educational resources (OER) for classroom use into a workforce-aligned undergraduate certificate in publishing and editing available for students campus-wide. With the English department’s commitment to open practices\, partnerships developed to support OER creation and publication expanded to include the library publishing program’s support of an existing undergraduate literary journal previously published as a website. Shifting the journal publication process to workflows developed as part of the library publishing program gave students the opportunity to explore discoverability\, permanent identifiers\, and become familiar with terms and roles used in commercial publishing ventures. The library publishing program coordinator and the advisor for the journal’s undergraduate editing team realized that not only were the students producing scholarly and creative work\, they were also gaining structured\, hands-on experience with the editorial\, production and ethical aspects of publishing.\nRecognizing this opportunity\, the library and English department designed a certificate that would help make this experiential learning visible\, coherent\, and meaningful beyond their time on campus. The undergraduate certificate in publishing and editing is implemented by both the English department and library faculty\, and introduces students to editorial workflows\, copyright and licensing\, peer review\, accessibility\, and discoverability strategies.\nThe collaborators used labor market reports to ground the certificate proposal in language used by workforce partners describing the skills they are seeking in potential employees. These reports helped highlight how publishing related competencies such as written and verbal communication\, project management\, problem-solving\, and digital fluency align with skills currently emphasized by workforce and career readiness initiatives. Using the vocabulary of workforce development has helped position the certificate as both academically rigorous and strategically responsive to needs communicated by university and state leadership.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
UID:6a655492e137c9142f2e2b6422a1d599
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/6a655492e137c9142f2e2b6422a1d599
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T180000Z
DTEND:20260618T190000Z
SUMMARY:IP2: From Research to Publication: Building an Integrated Pipeline for Undergraduate Scholarly Communication Through Journal Publishing and Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:This session presents an innovative model that bridges undergraduate research mentorship with formal scholarly publishing training through the strategic convergence of two complementary initiatives: an in-house undergraduate scholarly journal and a credit-bearing summer course on the publication journey.\nOur undergraduate journal was established to provide students with authentic experience in scholarly communication\, from manuscript development with faculty mentors through peer review and publication. Recognizing the need for more structured pedagogical support around this process\, we developed a companion summer course that demystifies the research-to-publication pipeline. Co-taught by an instruction and outreach librarian and a writing faculty who happen to be our Associate Dean for Community Excellence\, the course guides students through identifying research questions\, understanding disciplinary conventions\, navigating peer review\, and engaging with publishing ethics\, skills traditionally learned implicitly during graduate education.\nThe convergence of these initiatives creates a comprehensive ecosystem for undergraduate scholarly development. Students in the course produce work suitable for journal submission\, while journal contributors benefit from course resources and workshops. This integration aims to yield measurable outcomes: increase submission quality\, higher acceptance rates\, reduce revision cycles\, and greater student confidence in scholarly communication.\nOperating at an American branch campus in Qatar with over 70 nationalities represented\, our program inherently incorporates diverse epistemological frameworks and research traditions. Students bring varied perspectives on citation practices\, authorship conventions\, and knowledge dissemination\, enriching peer review discussions and editorial decisions.\nThis session will share our implementation timeline\, budget considerations\, metrics for success\, and lessons learned. Attendees will receive practical resources including course syllabi\, journal submission guidelines adapted for undergraduate writers\, peer reviewer training materials\, and assessment rubrics. We will discuss how this scalable model can be adapted across institutional contexts while maintaining responsiveness to local student populations and disciplinary needs.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
UID:118026bfb374d5afcdd12b2dbafc4afd
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/118026bfb374d5afcdd12b2dbafc4afd
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T180000Z
DTEND:20260618T190000Z
SUMMARY:IP2: Teaching Publishing Literacy to New Authors: Benefits of OER as a Course-Agnostic\, Point-of-Need Tool
DESCRIPTION:In 2022-23\, librarians at the University of California\, Santa Cruz (UCSC) conducted a mixed methods research study to understand graduate students’ publishing needs. We learned that publishing is often unevenly taught to graduate students who expressed a need for more comprehensive publishing guidance. In addition to learning that students miss opportunities when they are unfamiliar with publishing\, interview and survey data demonstrated that students publish at different times and need just-in-time\, asynchronous resources to learn about publishing as they navigate the process.\nConsequently\, the Scholarly Communication Librarian shifted from teaching synchronous workshops to creating accessible\, discipline-agnostic resources from which graduate students may learn about publishing whenever needed. In Fall 2024\, she launched UCSC’s Publishing Tip Series–a weekly e-mail series shared alongside identical podcast episodes–succesfully reaching 80 graduate students and other participants. The second season in Fall 2025 reached 116 participants.\nThis session focuses on the next step: creating an open educational resource (OER) to offer a centralized tool for graduate students to learn about publishing. Simultaneously\, UCSC’s OER Librarian has been investigating infrastructure for OER and researching how OER may further student belonging. This Publishing OER\, which is in early development\, brings an important opportunity to collaborate around OER platforms and creation.\nOur session describes the goals for the Publishing OER\, which include centering student experiences and demystifying the hidden curriculum of publishing\, and the value of our collaboration\, including takeaways for collaboration with faculty on OER. The session is useful for participants who have ideas for what new authors need to learn and want to make their publishing literacy outreach more widely accessible. We also present one model for Scholarly Communication and OER librarians partnering to achieve shared but distinct goals. Participants will have a chance to engage with and contribute to the Publishing OER.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
UID:6348b5538d255c1079b36b39b1e56880
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/6348b5538d255c1079b36b39b1e56880
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T190000Z
DTEND:20260618T200000Z
SUMMARY:Lunch
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CATEGORIES:LUNCH
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:287e4ef35e8675e5be0d089cf00aaa89
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/287e4ef35e8675e5be0d089cf00aaa89
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T200000Z
DTEND:20260618T210000Z
SUMMARY:IP3: Building Scalable Library Publishing Through Shared Infrastructure: Updates on Meru and the Next Generation Library Publishing Project
DESCRIPTION:Consortial and collective library publishing models provide a critical opportunity for libraries facing growing challenges\, including funding cuts\, the effect of AI on many aspects of the publishing process\, new accessibility regulations\, and the need to demonstrate value and impact. By working together\, libraries can share infrastructure\, expertise\, and operational costs\, making it possible to sustain publishing programs that would be difficult or impossible to run alone. Collective approaches also improve resilience\, reduce duplication of effort\, and amplify the visibility of library-published scholarship\, especially critical in a political climate where diverse perspectives are being marginalized.\nTo achieve the benefits of consortial publishing\, shared infrastructure is essential. This session will provide updates on Meru\, a unified display layer for library published content\, specifically in the context of the consortial or collective publishing use case.\nBetween 2024 and 2025\, the Next Generation Library Publishing team and Cast Iron Coding completed a major new phase of Meru development\, funded by IMLS\, UNC Press\, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance\, with a strong focus on scalability\, interoperability\, and usability for library publishers. A new management system now allows Meru sites to be created\, updated\, and scaled much more easily\, reducing technical overhead for hosting and long-term maintenance. Meru’s presentation layer was redesigned so that journals\, books\, and collections can be displayed using flexible layouts defined by configuration rather than custom code. This makes it far simpler to introduce new publication types or adjust how content appears. Additional improvements to search\, performance\, and editorial administration further enhance Meru as a sustainable\, library-centered publishing platform.\nParticipants will learn about how these new features and Meru’s flexible architecture provide a basis for building robust collective publishing programs\, and how they can get involved.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
UID:c92fd40e68d34bb1dfad62af33be0451
URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/c92fd40e68d34bb1dfad62af33be0451
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
DTSTART:20260618T200000Z
DTEND:20260618T210000Z
SUMMARY:IP3: Media-Neutral Publishing Enabled by the OS-APS Single-Source Workflow
DESCRIPTION:For the presentation of publications—whether monographs or journal articles—there is a need for documents that look contemporary and are offered in various formats. For university presses in particular\, it is crucial that these formats can be produced easily and cost-effectively. At the same time\, standards must be met and legal requirements such as accessibility must be taken into account. Most of the time\, however\, authors submit their source texts in Word. So how can we\, given these requirements\, end up with attractive PDFs and usable HTML documents?\nOS-APS is an open-source software for producing Diamond Open Access publications\, which is already being expanded through various project grants. Its goal is to map complex publishing workflows within a single-source environment. Input formats can include Word documents or LibreOffice documents\, and to a limited extent also TeX formats. Output formats include PDF\, EPUB\, HTML\, and common XML formats. Document editing takes place in an online editor with functionalities adapted to the needs of publishers. Among the software’s special features are an accessible online viewer for HTML and JATS/BITS\, freely configurable templates for journals and monographs\, and alternative text support for graphics.\nThis contribution discusses\, from the perspective of FAU University Press\, the developments achieved in the BMBF-funded projects and outlines the need for such software. In addition\, the use of the OS-APS software in combination with Open Journal Systems (OJS) is explained.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:IP3: Platform Postmortem: Learning from Ten Years of Publishing Digital Scholarship with an Out-of-the-Box Tool
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, I will review lessons learned about taking a publishing approach to digital scholarship after 10 years with a particularly popular platform and how we plan to move forward. I will also revisit tiered service models for library technology from the LIS literature based on our experiences and emerging trends in the field. For the past decade\, as a result of perceived need and based on research on digital publishing needs in the humanities\, our library publishing service has used Scalar as one of a small number of platforms we support. Chosen due to its support for multimodal writing\, it has been our most popular long-form platform for research publications\, including particularly for our Black Studies series\, but it has posed challenges due to its aging tech stack and a gap with accessibility expectations that will soon have additional legal force. In spring of 2025\, the centrally hosted version of Scalar suffered significant technical challenges\, blocking all use for several months. While our local instance was not affected\, we paused acceptance of new proposals using Scalar and gave a deadline to existing works in progress for final publication\, moving towards an exclusively maintenance and preservation mode for our instance. Our experiences with Scalar raise considerations for successful digital scholarship web publications and related services\, and this presentation will explore successes\, pain points\, and opportunities for moving forward after sunsetting a platform.
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/d544cddce4572912fd921539656cf1f3
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SUMMARY:IP4: Analyzing Disparities and Trends in Article Processing Charges Publishing: A Case Study of the University of Houston
DESCRIPTION:Open access (OA) publishing is growing rapidly. Article processing charges (APCs) now significantly impact scholarly equity and institutional budgets. The University of Houston (UH) is a research-intensive public university with diverse disciplines. As UH is expanding its research output and engaging more in open access publishing\, analyzing APC expenditures helps the UH Libraries enhance the current open publishing services and institutional agreements with publishers. This study combines OpenAlex metadata with records from UH’s Open Access and APC support program. This study analyzes publishing behavior from 2021 to 2025.\nThis study classifies publications using OpenAlex primary fields as top-level concepts. An author fractional contribution method assesses cost burdens across collaborative outputs more accurately. The analysis examines temporal and disciplinary APC patterns: annual expenditure\, median and average costs\, and publication volumes. Building on this foundation\, the study investigates three critical dimensions: 1) Comparisons between UH’s APC publishing trends and broader North American institutional patterns\; 2) Disciplinary variations in APCs and their evolution over the five-year period\; 3) The extent of APC concentration at the publisher and journal levels.\nThe findings will provide UH Libraries with evidence-based insights for developing OA support programs that are tailored to the needs of different disciplines. This approach aims to mitigate inequitable cost burdens\, evaluate APC agreements and encourage sustainable access to scholarly publishing at the University of Houston.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/fa6557e23e7e31d757b480af9f36b848
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SUMMARY:IP4: We Are the Stories we Tell Ourselves: Articulating Impact and Value When Downloads Mean Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Traditional metrics are meaningless in the age of AI. This is the hardest story to tell both researchers and administrations without devaluing the work of the IR and open scholarship in general. The temptation is to play whack-a-mole with scraper traffic\, implementing technical barriers to distinguish “legitimate” from “illegitimate” access. But this approach both fails technically and misses the deeper problem: download metrics were never adequate measures of repository value\, and AI scraping simply makes that inadequacy impossible to ignore. We should stop telling that story.\nThis presentation argues that we need an entirely new set of stories to tell about what repositories (and by extension OA) do. Rather than trying to galvanize compromised metrics\, I will propose frameworks for thought around how to talk about IR value that don’t depend on circulation\, downloads\, and outmoded ideas of engagement. In what is meant to be a participatory discussion\, I ask: What stories can we tell about our value and the value of our material if we throw metrics to the wind? How can we reposition the work of digital publishing and also reposition the IR as a pedagogical tool to leverage in AI literacy discussions on campus?\nDrawing on experiences at Syracuse University\, this presentation provides space for collective brainstorming as well as concrete strategies for shifting administrative and faculty conversations away from the download metric entirely—not by fixing it\, but by telling better stories about what repositories actually do for institutions and scholarly communities.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/e4c499278d4f9d62e1023a0596587e46
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SUMMARY:IP4: ‘Infrastructuring’ inclusive open access: the case of DOAJ journal indexing criteria
DESCRIPTION:As a global infrastructure for knowledge dissemination based on good publishing practices\, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) must navigate a difficult tension: maintaining rigorous global standards without reinforcing colonial power imbalances. This presentation interrogates the politics of classification (Bowker & Star\, 2000) within open knowledge infrastructures\, focusing on how standardized criteria can inadvertently create barriers for journals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)\, leading to epistemic injustice (Fricker\, 2007). I’ll present the DOAJ indexing criteria as a case of the complex process of ‘infrastructuring’ inclusive open access. DOAJ is not a static technical platform but a living infrastructure co-constructed and maintained by a diverse global community. As such\, DOAJ is in a constant state of change: journals are added immediately upon acceptance and removed regularly when they no longer meet the required standards. Beyond formal review\, DOAJ also listens to its user community\, responding to concerns by investigating journals or publishers flagged through public discourse or internal monitoring. In this way\, DOAJ functions not only as an index but as a responsive system shaped by the practices and trust of its global community. The history of DOAJ criteria demonstrates that defining and promoting best practices in OA is not a one-time design challenge\, but a continuous\, reflexive process.
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/edfa9a88471e7f2e7b2a76d1c0677efb
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SUMMARY:IP5: Accessibility Success through CPACC Certification: A Penn State Case Study
DESCRIPTION:The International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) has professional certifications on disability and accessibility core competencies\, web accessibility\, and document accessibility. The certification is based on 3 domains:\nDisabilities\, Challenges\, and Assistive Technologies\nAccessibility and Universal Design\nStandards\, Laws\, and Management Strategies\nThis presentation from the Penn State University Libraries Open Publishing program will focus on how two members studied\, took\, and passed the IAAP Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) exam. The presentation will cover the content of the certification\, the importance of certifications\, the process of becoming certified\, the study tips that proved useful\, and how to apply lessons learned to your publishing program.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/6de8decc1310041a84ae950dd711ad15
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SUMMARY:IP5: From Archives to Wikipedia in the Classroom: A CUNY Library Partnership Case Study
DESCRIPTION:This presentation offers as a case study a Wikipedia archive assignment that connects classrooms across levels and institutions at CUNY. This project asks graduate students to collaborate with community college students in a hands-on application of key concepts in digital pedagogy and open publishing that also brings visibility to CUNY archival materials.\nWe will give an overview of our assignment and suggest ways others can replicate it to organize initiatives that publish archival materials at their own institutions. We piloted this assignment in Fall 2025\, connecting the MA seminar we co-taught at the CUNY Graduate Center\, “Introduction to Digital Humanities\,” and a first-year developmental writing course taught by Dr. Michael at CUNY Hostos Community College. Our graduate students were introduced to archival work through a guest lecture by CUNY Digital Archivist Bridget Day on “Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory\,” a three-year Mellon-funded project that aims to digitize and coordinate the archives held at CUNY’s 25 campuses. We then partnered with a new library publishing initiative\, the CUNY Craig Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence\, Richard Knipel\, who introduced students to Wikipedia editing. These conversations came together in our week on DH pedagogy\, where students got into groups to prepare small Wikipedia assignments that undergraduates would complete in a single session.\nAt the same time\, Dr. Michael’s undergraduates were completing a unit on the 1970’s “Save Hostos Movement” that included exploration of the campus archives. At the end of this unit\, Knipel and representatives from our graduate class introduced students to Wikipedia editing and the assignments they had prepared. These assignments asked the undergraduates to cite primary and secondary sources in adding a section on the “Save Hostos Movement” to the Hostos Wikipedia page. This assignment brought together library special collections and digital publishing in ways that connect the dots between local knowledge and public scholarship.\n \n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/7255dc1f72930c51bf6cf345c2d5df29
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SUMMARY:Therapy Dogs
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CATEGORIES:THERAPY DOGS
LOCATION:Mural Lounge
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/a4feab6716e3bf616aa525efba8ab70d
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SUMMARY:Break
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/0f4f35b436edf7fdcdc8eb5356852f2b
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DTEND:20260618T223000Z
SUMMARY:Finding Your Place in Open Source Software: A Hands-on Workshop for First-Time Contributors
DESCRIPTION:Free and open source software (FOSS) powers much of the library publishing ecosystem\, yet many potential contributors are uncertain about how they belong in open source software communities. Barriers such as perceived technical requirements\, fear of making mistakes\, unclear onboarding processes\, outdated documentation\, exclusionary language\, and a lack of visible mentorship can discourage &nbsp\;participation\, particularly from those without formal software development backgrounds. This interactive\, hands-on workshop will provide a welcoming\, inclusive\, and practical introduction to contributing to open source software projects\, emphasizing that meaningful contributions extend far beyond writing code. Led by maintainers and leaders from major open source publishing projects (Pressbooks\, Manifold\, Coko/Ketty\, and the Public Knowledge Project)\, this session will guide participants through a variety of contribution pathways\, including proposing features/reporting issues\, improving documentation\, testing usability and accessibility\, and providing translations.\nAfter a brief framing presentation\, participants will work in small\, facilitated breakout groups with project representatives to explore real project repositories\, issue trackers\, and contribution guidelines. Attendees will identify contribution opportunities aligned with their interests and skills and take concrete first steps toward participation. The workshop is designed to resemble a supportive edit-a-thon rather than a traditional hackathon\, prioritizing learning\, confidence-building\, and community connection over technical output.\nThis session requires a hands-on format to ensure participants leave not only with conceptual knowledge\, but with direct experience navigating open source contribution workflows and engaging with project communities. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how open source projects function\, how their expertise is valuable\, and how to continue contributing beyond the conference.\n\n
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/040c92a2464c16d9d47dfea1db62714b
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DTSTART:20260618T213000Z
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SUMMARY:Measure What Matters: A Workshop on Developing Rubrics for Journal Evaluation and Growth
DESCRIPTION:Library publishers often exist in a liminal space between “technical host” and “strategic publisher.” For years\, eScholarship operated largely in the former category – providing platforming for important niche scholarship but lacking the mechanisms to encourage adoption of professional standards. We now recognize that this passive model was ultimately a disservice to our editors\, authors\, and readers: without adhering to transparent\, community-established standards\, journals risk being less discoverable\, less relevant\, and less likely to achieve sustainable funding.\nTo bridge this gap\, eScholarship has\, in the past several years\, pivoted to a proactive\, standards-based approach. In 2025\, drawing on the JPPS framework\, DOAJ criteria\, and COPE guidelines\, we developed a suite of evaluation rubrics to assess new journal proposals\, audit existing journals\, and measure the overall health of our own publishing program. These tools have allowed us to replace subjective “gut feeling” decision-making with more objective\, transparent\, and equitable processes\, ensuring our limited resources are invested where they make the most impact.\nThis session offers a replicable framework for similarly professionalizing library publishing portfolios. After presenting our methodology and results\, we will review the 3 rubrics in detail before shifting to a hands-on workshop. Attendees will receive modifiable rubric templates and work in small\, host-facilitated groups to discuss how adapting these standards to their own local contexts could move us collectively towards a shared model of quality and accountability in library-based publishing.\n\n
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/f06c8e5ee91e56da4a2c36156f8d6a14
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DTSTART:20260618T213000Z
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SUMMARY:IP6: OPEN FL Publishing Program: An OER Win
DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) launched the OPEN FL Publishing Program for its 40 member institutions with the primary purpose of facilitating OER adoption\, adaption\, and authoring in Florida public higher education. As a state-funded consortium\, FLVC’s OER publishing initiative offers a unique perspective on navigating the legislative landscape\, launching a program without grant funding\, and acting/reacting promptly\, per government requirements and member needs. Importantly\, FLVC’s OPEN FL Publishing request needed to be carefully crafted through multiple steps for approval by LBR (legislative budget request) which is not guaranteed. Then\, once the request was approved\, the consortium had to move quickly with next steps: arranging contracts with vendors\, training staff\, and advertising to members with no grant funding to support textbook development. After the fast and furious creation of the program\, member participation had grown slowly\, but steadily. This slow growth in community uptake has proven to be a boon for team and member learning and organic spread of the program’s worth among institutions.\nThe process of creation and launch of an OER publishing program is best understood in terms of a series of challenges and wins. The speakers will engage in a lively exchange\, presenting obstacles encountered in the launch phase of the project\, followed by solutions which represent a win for OER publishing and\, ultimately\, students. The dramatization of decision points in this session will entertain\, inform\, and inspire attendees.\n\n
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/538150c580703ab973eadbd9ed8e8e18
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SUMMARY:IP6: Staffing Survey Task Force Results & Report
DESCRIPTION:The most recent LPC Directory received responses from 179 publishers across 18 countries\, which has increased from 116 library publishers when the Directory was first launched. Each publishing program is unique in its operation with different staffing models\, size\, level of output\, and publication goals. This suggests that library based publishing is growing as a field and warrants further investigation into its labor practices. In an effort to gain a deeper understanding of how library publishing work operates\, the LPC established the Staffing Survey Task Force in 2024. The goal of this initiative is to identify effective practices\, common challenges\, and opportunities for improvement within our community of library publishers. The survey we created was open from June-July 2025 and explores how library publishers quantify their staffing\, utilize volunteer labor\, compensate publishing work\, and incorporate publishing tasks with other job responsibilities. The survey was distributed to LPC members and in other relevant library publishing spaces. After the completion of the survey and analysis of results\, we present our report to the LPC community.
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/c397cfb816038ad47b0bb88850e7cd62
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DTSTAMP:20260526T203944Z
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SUMMARY:IP6: Testing Community-Owned Infrastructure: Lessons from the Open Education Network’s Ketty Pilot
DESCRIPTION:In 2023 the Open Education Network launched a two-year pilot program with Ketty\, a web-based book production platform and open source project built by the Coko Foundation. (Ketty was first known as Editoria and also Ketida.) The OEN invited a self-selected group of community members to experiment with Ketty and the Open Textbook Planner\, an embedded tool\, to write and publish open textbooks. Our goals were to test the tools\, gather feedback\, inform future development\, and consider if Ketty could become the foundation of community-owned infrastructure. We also wanted to strengthen and diversify our OER publishing community and publish new open textbooks. Well\, it’s two years later and we’ve learned (and published!) some things. We’ll discuss Accessible Appalachia\, published by Eastern Kentucky University\, and highlight the behind-the-scenes process that brought that project to life. Join this session to learn more about the pilot’s structure\, members\, feedback\, accomplishments\, and challenges. We’ll talk about both internal and external influences on the pilot’s progress\, how the tool continues to change\, and how we’re working to move forward in an uncertain environment.
CATEGORIES:INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/019c209939c0189f2f0b54d27b208d10
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DTEND:20260618T224500Z
SUMMARY:Break
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:TBA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/f153a639cd678b1b0d725dd9d0d20039
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DTEND:20260618T234500Z
SUMMARY:What Works at Scale? A Conversation on Consortial Library Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Consortial programs arise when higher education institutions seize opportunities to operate at scale to better serve their faculty\, students\, and communities. Whether by delivering cost savings or leveraging shared resources\, technology\, and infrastructure\, consortia offer opportunities to do more together. Also\, emerging from a desire to serve their institutional communities\, library publishing programs seem like a natural fit for consortia to operate at scale through shared resources\, technology\, and infrastructure. But has this occurred in practice?\nThis birds of a feather session uses the results of survey of consortial publishing efforts as a starting point of conversation with those who are publishing at a consortial scale\, whether central office staff or those partnering with consortia to publish. We will consider:\n–What seems to work for your consortia and how can others learn from you?\n–What hurdles emerge from offering publishing services at scale? Are there any tensions between the expectations/needs/values of the various institutions you serve?\n–How do you make sure you serve all of your institutions\, not just those that are well resourced? How do you make sure that you are reaching and interacting with underserved institutions?\n–What aspects seem most valued by consortial members (staffing\, money\, technology\, other infrastructure)?\n–Are there ways that consortia can work together to operate at a larger scale?\n–Is there need for a separate group for communication of consortia involved in publishing?\nWe hope to leave the session with an action plan for both individual consortia but also potentially organize a community of practice across US consortia.\nWhile the session is aimed at consortial publishers\, those who are interested in building capacity for publishing at scale are also welcome to join the discussion.\n\n
CATEGORIES:BOAF
LOCATION:HUB 250
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:From Librarians to Authors: Revising Pub101 to Expand Open Publishing Support
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 2026\, the Open Education Network offered Pub101 for Authors for the first time. An adaptation of Pub101\, an informal and popular orientation to open textbook publishing for librarians and project managers\, Pub101 for Authors was designed to support potential authors who may not have local publishing support\, as well as be a building block for librarians who may appreciate infrastructure to scale their program. Using community input from Open Education Network Tea Times and a hands-on 2024 Library Publishing Forum session\, the Pub101 Committee adapted the existing open curriculum for an author audience\, and identified guest presenters to speak to curricular themes and share their experiences. In this session\, we’ll talk about how the adaptation process worked\, including how we chose to integrate generative AI considerations into the curriculum\, and reflect on the eight hosted synchronous sessions. We’ll talk about what went well\, what we plan to revise\, and discuss plans for the future. As part of that reflection\, we will invite feedback and suggestions for how we can continue to improve and support the OER publishing community.
CATEGORIES:FULL SESSION
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/ca45e6fb3f68282179e1f3b5af89d088
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SUMMARY:Bring Levity by Leveraging Zines and Hands-on Publishing
DESCRIPTION:In an time of digital exhaustion\, zines offer a tactile way to express ideas\, foster creativity\, and build community. This workshop invites participants to explore zines as versatile tools for teaching\, publishing\, and personal expression. Drawing on our experience using zines both professionally and personally\, presenters will demonstrate how these DIY publications can complement formal publishing programs\, enliven classroom activities\, and serve as a medium for self-care and reflection.\nParticipants will participate in brainstorming exercises\, create their own mini-zines\, and discuss the logistics of zines in the classroom. Along the way\, we will share practical strategies for integrating zines into academic and professional contexts—whether to showcase research\, encourage student engagement\, or cultivate inclusive spaces for dialogue. We will also highlight the role of zines in promoting wellness and levity\, offering a creative outlet that balances the demands of scholarly and professional life.\nBy the end of the workshop\, attendees will leave with a completed zine\, actionable ideas for incorporating zines into their work\, and a renewed appreciation for the power of low-tech publishing to inspire connection and creativity.\n\n
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON SESSION
LOCATION:HUB 214
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/3b57b4e48bab59fbcde4b5ac72976903
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DTSTART:20260618T234500Z
DTEND:20260619T000000Z
SUMMARY:Closing Remarks
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CATEGORIES:REMARKS
LOCATION:North Ballroom
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2026librarypublishingforum.sched.com/event/55b39d94aa5f93b6d9e2776ec2cf1e06
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