2026 Library Publishing Forum

2026 Library Publishing Forum

7:45am PDT

Breakfast North Ballroom

8:30am PDT

Opening Remarks North Ballroom

8:45am PDT

Keynote North Ballroom

9:45am PDT

10:00am PDT

Oh No, a Table! Library Publishing Experiences in PDF Accessibility and Remediation Work at Large Universities HUB 250 Putting Open Values to Work: Collaborations between Library Publishers and Open Infrastructures to Sustain Open Workflows in OA Book and OER Publishing HUB 214 WP1: From classroom to publication: Supporting course books through library publishing North Ballroom WP1: Greetings and an Update from IFLA’s Library Publishing Section North Ballroom WP1: Publishing OER that Further Student Belonging: Insights and Questions North Ballroom WP1: Scholarly Publishing Partnerships Through Book Proposal Development North Ballroom WP1: The ZTC Buzz: Sharing our Zero Textbook Cost Campus Tour North Ballroom

11:00am PDT

11:15am PDT

Libraries and Publishers in Support of Black and Indigenous Voices HUB 214 We Make the Rules: Rewriting Norms in Library-Based Journal Publishing HUB 250 IP1: Building a Publishing Program with AI Assistance: A Case Study from Access Services in Libraries, Inc. North Ballroom IP1: Do As I Say, Not As I Do: How Scholarly Publishers’ Disclose Their Use of Artificial Intelligence North Ballroom IP1: Establishing an Advisory Board: Process, Practice, and Lessons Learned North Ballroom

12:15pm PDT

Lunch North Ballroom

1:15pm PDT

Getting Up to Speed with Journal Hosting in the Library HUB 214 Constructive Conversations with Authors HUB 250 Unearthing Diamond OA: Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Publishing North Ballroom

2:15pm PDT

2:30pm PDT

The Contract as Compliance: Negotiating Privacy and Accessibility in Library Publishing HUB 214 Sustaining Scholarly Texts: A Collaborative Approach to TEI Publishing HUB 250 Altered State Publishing: Workshop on Designing Workflows for Alternative Publishing North Ballroom

3:30pm PDT

4:00pm PDT

Reception North Ballroom

7:45am PDT

Breakfast North Ballroom

8:30am PDT

Plenary Panel North Ballroom

9:30am PDT

9:45am PDT

From Practice to Profession: Advancing Open Education’s Place in Scholarly Publishing and Academic Recognition HUB 250 From Growing Pains to Sustainability: Proven Strategies for Maturing Library & OER Publishing Programs HUB 214 WP2: Books & More: An update from PKP on bibliodiversity and OMP North Ballroom WP2: From Vulnerabilities to Verification: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication in OJS North Ballroom WP2: Leveraging consortial infrastructure to sustain open publishing: The STORK case study at the University of Ottawa North Ballroom WP2: Making the Invisible Visible: Using Open Data to Surface Diamond Journals in Canada North Ballroom WP2: Understanding the Labor Behind Library-Published Scholarly Journals in the United State North Ballroom

10:45am PDT

11:00am PDT

Introducing Digital Press Plus: A Press/Vendor Collaboration for Supplementary Teaching Materials North Ballroom Mapping the Research Nexus: A Hands-on Guide to Retrieving Relationship Metadata HUB 250 IP2: Collaborating to Build an Undergraduate Publishing Certificate: Library-English Partnerships Centering Student Experience and Workforce Readiness HUB 214 IP2: From Research to Publication: Building an Integrated Pipeline for Undergraduate Scholarly Communication Through Journal Publishing and Pedagogy HUB 214 IP2: Teaching Publishing Literacy to New Authors: Benefits of OER as a Course-Agnostic, Point-of-Need Tool HUB 214

12:00pm PDT

Lunch North Ballroom

1:00pm PDT

IP3: Building Scalable Library Publishing Through Shared Infrastructure: Updates on Meru and the Next Generation Library Publishing Project North Ballroom IP3: Media-Neutral Publishing Enabled by the OS-APS Single-Source Workflow North Ballroom IP3: Platform Postmortem: Learning from Ten Years of Publishing Digital Scholarship with an Out-of-the-Box Tool North Ballroom IP4: Analyzing Disparities and Trends in Article Processing Charges Publishing: A Case Study of the University of Houston HUB 250 IP4: We Are the Stories we Tell Ourselves: Articulating Impact and Value When Downloads Mean Nothing HUB 250 IP4: ‘Infrastructuring’ inclusive open access: the case of DOAJ journal indexing criteria HUB 250 IP5: Accessibility Success through CPACC Certification: A Penn State Case Study HUB 214 IP5: From Archives to Wikipedia in the Classroom: A CUNY Library Partnership Case Study HUB 214

1:30pm PDT

Therapy Dogs Mural Lounge

2:00pm PDT

2:30pm PDT

Finding Your Place in Open Source Software: A Hands-on Workshop for First-Time Contributors North Ballroom Measure What Matters: A Workshop on Developing Rubrics for Journal Evaluation and Growth HUB 250 IP6: OPEN FL Publishing Program: An OER Win HUB 214 IP6: Staffing Survey Task Force Results & Report HUB 214 IP6: Testing Community-Owned Infrastructure: Lessons from the Open Education Network’s Ketty Pilot HUB 214

3:30pm PDT

3:45pm PDT

What Works at Scale? A Conversation on Consortial Library Publishing HUB 250 From Librarians to Authors: Revising Pub101 to Expand Open Publishing Support North Ballroom Bring Levity by Leveraging Zines and Hands-on Publishing HUB 214

4:45pm PDT

Closing Remarks North Ballroom