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2026 Library Publishing Forum
Wednesday, June 17
 

7:45am PDT

Breakfast
Wednesday June 17, 2026 7:45am - 8:45am PDT
North Ballroom
Wednesday June 17, 2026 7:45am - 8:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Breakfast

8:30am PDT

Opening Remarks
Wednesday June 17, 2026 8:30am - 8:45am PDT
North Ballroom
Speakers
CB
Wednesday June 17, 2026 8:30am - 8:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Remarks

8:45am PDT

Keynote
Wednesday June 17, 2026 8:45am - 9:45am PDT
North Ballroom
Speakers
HJ
Wednesday June 17, 2026 8:45am - 9:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Keynote

9:45am PDT

Break
Wednesday June 17, 2026 9:45am - 10:00am PDT
TBA
Wednesday June 17, 2026 9:45am - 10:00am PDT
TBA
  Break

10:00am PDT

Oh No, a Table! Library Publishing Experiences in PDF Accessibility and Remediation Work at Large Universities
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
IC
AP
KS
AW
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
HUB 250
  Full Session

10:00am PDT

Putting Open Values to Work: Collaborations between Library Publishers and Open Infrastructures to Sustain Open Workflows in OA Book and OER Publishing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
AB
HI
VV
TS
SW
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
HUB 214
  Hands-on Session

10:00am PDT

WP1: From classroom to publication: Supporting course books through library publishing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
IL
JZ
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#1

10:00am PDT

WP1: Greetings and an Update from IFLA’s Library Publishing Section
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
NOTE: Video stream link goes to a YouTube playlist containing all watch party 1 presentations.
Speakers
AO
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#1

10:00am PDT

WP1: Publishing OER that Further Student Belonging: Insights and Questions
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
SH
AM
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#1

10:00am PDT

WP1: Scholarly Publishing Partnerships Through Book Proposal Development
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
Crafting a compelling book proposal is both an art and a strategic exercise that sits at the intersection of scholarly rigor, craft, and market awareness.  Faculty authors from R2 institutions struggle with navigating a complex and competitive scholarly publishing landscape, and many need assistance developing a book proposal, which has become a genre of its own.  Library publishers and...
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Speakers
AG
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#1

10:00am PDT

WP1: The ZTC Buzz: Sharing our Zero Textbook Cost Campus Tour
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
MB
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#1

11:00am PDT

Break
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:00am - 11:15am PDT
TBA
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:00am - 11:15am PDT
TBA
  Break

11:15am PDT

Libraries and Publishers in Support of Black and Indigenous Voices
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
HUB 214
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,...
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Speakers
VL
TD
AL
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
HUB 214
  Full Session

11:15am PDT

We Make the Rules: Rewriting Norms in Library-Based Journal Publishing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
KC
SD
CD
AL
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
HUB 250
  Full Session

11:15am PDT

IP1: Building a Publishing Program with AI Assistance: A Case Study from Access Services in Libraries, Inc.
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
KG
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Individual Presentations, Session #1

11:15am PDT

IP1: Do As I Say, Not As I Do: How Scholarly Publishers’ Disclose Their Use of Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
TS
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Individual Presentations, Session #1

11:15am PDT

IP1: Establishing an Advisory Board: Process, Practice, and Lessons Learned
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
CG
PT
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Individual Presentations, Session #1

12:15pm PDT

Lunch
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Lunch

1:15pm PDT

Getting Up to Speed with Journal Hosting in the Library
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
NF
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
HUB 214
  BOAF

1:15pm PDT

Constructive Conversations with Authors
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
CG
AW
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
HUB 250
  Hands-on Session

1:15pm PDT

Unearthing Diamond OA: Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Publishing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
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....
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Speakers
EG
SL
KM
CM
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Hands-on Session

2:15pm PDT

Break
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:15pm - 2:30pm PDT
TBA
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:15pm - 2:30pm PDT
TBA
  Break

2:30pm PDT

The Contract as Compliance: Negotiating Privacy and Accessibility in Library Publishing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
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.Consider the reality of our vendor platforms: You can have perfectly accessible PDFs, but if a blind author cannot navigate the submission dashboard,...
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Speakers
ED
MG
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
  BOAF

2:30pm PDT

Sustaining Scholarly Texts: A Collaborative Approach to TEI Publishing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
ZD
DJ
CN
AS
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 250
  Full Session

2:30pm PDT

Altered State Publishing: Workshop on Designing Workflows for Alternative Publishing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
BK
MS
Wednesday June 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Hands-on Session

3:30pm PDT

Break
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
TBA
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
TBA
  Break

4:00pm PDT

Reception
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Reception
 
Thursday, June 18
 

7:45am PDT

Breakfast
Thursday June 18, 2026 7:45am - 8:30am PDT
North Ballroom
Thursday June 18, 2026 7:45am - 8:30am PDT
North Ballroom
  Breakfast

8:30am PDT

Plenary Panel
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
North Ballroom
Speakers
TH
SL
CP
MW
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
North Ballroom
  Plenary

9:30am PDT

Break
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:30am - 9:45am PDT
TBA
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:30am - 9:45am PDT
TBA
  Break

9:45am PDT

From Practice to Profession: Advancing Open Education’s Place in Scholarly Publishing and Academic Recognition
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
CD
AL
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
HUB 250
  BOAF

9:45am PDT

From Growing Pains to Sustainability: Proven Strategies for Maturing Library & OER Publishing Programs
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
KM
PH
LR
SW
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
HUB 214
  Full Session

9:45am PDT

WP2: Books & More: An update from PKP on bibliodiversity and OMP
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
ZW
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#2

9:45am PDT

WP2: From Vulnerabilities to Verification: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication in OJS
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
BC
GM
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#2

9:45am PDT

WP2: Leveraging consortial infrastructure to sustain open publishing: The STORK case study at the University of Ottawa
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
LB
BK
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#2

9:45am PDT

WP2: Making the Invisible Visible: Using Open Data to Surface Diamond Journals in Canada
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
SV
JH
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#2

9:45am PDT

WP2: Understanding the Labor Behind Library-Published Scholarly Journals in the United State
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
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.Recent research by Lange & Severson examined labor in Canadian open access journals, providing valuable insights into...
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Speakers
KB
AJ
JM
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
North Ballroom
  Watch Party, WP#2

10:45am PDT

Break
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:45am - 11:00am PDT
TBA
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:45am - 11:00am PDT
TBA
  Break

11:00am PDT

Introducing Digital Press Plus: A Press/Vendor Collaboration for Supplementary Teaching Materials
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
AB
AK
HW
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Full Session

11:00am PDT

Mapping the Research Nexus: A Hands-on Guide to Retrieving Relationship Metadata
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 250
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,...
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Speakers
JP
SS
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 250
  Hands-on Session

11:00am PDT

IP2: Collaborating to Build an Undergraduate Publishing Certificate: Library-English Partnerships Centering Student Experience and Workforce Readiness
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
VC
KE
AP
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #2

11:00am PDT

IP2: From Research to Publication: Building an Integrated Pipeline for Undergraduate Scholarly Communication Through Journal Publishing and Pedagogy
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 214
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.Our undergraduate journal was established to provide students with authentic experience in...
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Speakers
KD
RS
JS
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #2

11:00am PDT

IP2: Teaching Publishing Literacy to New Authors: Benefits of OER as a Course-Agnostic, Point-of-Need Tool
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
SH
MS
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #2

12:00pm PDT

Lunch
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Lunch

1:00pm PDT

IP3: Building Scalable Library Publishing Through Shared Infrastructure: Updates on Meru and the Next Generation Library Publishing Project
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
ZD
SL
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Individual Presentations, Session #3

1:00pm PDT

IP3: Media-Neutral Publishing Enabled by the OS-APS Single-Source Workflow
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
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....
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Speakers
DB
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Individual Presentations, Session #3

1:00pm PDT

IP3: Platform Postmortem: Learning from Ten Years of Publishing Digital Scholarship with an Out-of-the-Box Tool
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
DG
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Individual Presentations, Session #3

1:00pm PDT

IP4: Analyzing Disparities and Trends in Article Processing Charges Publishing: A Case Study of the University of Houston
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
XZ
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 250
  Individual Presentations, Session #4

1:00pm PDT

IP4: We Are the Stories we Tell Ourselves: Articulating Impact and Value When Downloads Mean Nothing
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
DM
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 250
  Individual Presentations, Session #4

1:00pm PDT

IP4: ‘Infrastructuring’ inclusive open access: the case of DOAJ journal indexing criteria
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
IL
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 250
  Individual Presentations, Session #4

1:00pm PDT

IP5: Accessibility Success through CPACC Certification: A Penn State Case Study
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 214
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:Disabilities, Challenges, and Assistive TechnologiesAccessibility and Universal DesignStandards, Laws, and Management StrategiesThis presentation from the Penn...
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Speakers
JL
AP
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #5

1:00pm PDT

IP5: From Archives to Wikipedia in the Classroom: A CUNY Library Partnership Case Study
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 214
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.We will give an overview of our assignment...
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Speakers
JK
KM
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #5

1:30pm PDT

Therapy Dogs
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Mural Lounge
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Mural Lounge
  Therapy Dogs

2:00pm PDT

Break
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
TBA
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
TBA
  Break

2:30pm PDT

Finding Your Place in Open Source Software: A Hands-on Workshop for First-Time Contributors
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
ZD
AH
AS
SW
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Hands-on Session

2:30pm PDT

Measure What Matters: A Workshop on Developing Rubrics for Journal Evaluation and Growth
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 250
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,...
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Speakers
JG
AK
CR
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 250
  Hands-on Session

2:30pm PDT

IP6: OPEN FL Publishing Program: An OER Win
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
EB
RC
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #6

2:30pm PDT

IP6: Staffing Survey Task Force Results & Report
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
MB
MC
LC
HH
AH
BL
BL
DO
MP
AW
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #6

2:30pm PDT

IP6: Testing Community-Owned Infrastructure: Lessons from the Open Education Network’s Ketty Pilot
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
BL
KL
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
HUB 214
  Individual Presentations, Session #6

3:30pm PDT

Break
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm PDT
TBA
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm PDT
TBA
  Break

3:45pm PDT

What Works at Scale? A Conversation on Consortial Library Publishing
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
HUB 250
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...
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Speakers
AH
JK
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
HUB 250
  BOAF

3:45pm PDT

From Librarians to Authors: Revising Pub101 to Expand Open Publishing Support
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
North Ballroom
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...
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Speakers
AL
KL
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Full Session

3:45pm PDT

Bring Levity by Leveraging Zines and Hands-on Publishing
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
HUB 214
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...
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Speakers
AB
FH
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
HUB 214
  Hands-on Session

4:45pm PDT

Closing Remarks
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:45pm - 5:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
Speakers
CB
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:45pm - 5:00pm PDT
North Ballroom
  Remarks
 

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