Libraries, Authors, and Publishing

Session Time: 9:00 - 9:45 a.m. CDT

Session Title: TBD

Speaker Bio: Andrew Richard Albanese is Features Editor at Publishers Weekly. He has covered the publishing and information technology fields since 1999, and has written for numerous publications including Lingua Franca, and Salon.com. Prior to joining Publisher Weekly he was a reporter and editor at Library Journal, and a former editor with Oxford University Press, and Regan Books.

Session Time: 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. CDT

Session Title: Journal Hosting 101: Practical Tips for Getting Started

Intended Audience: Academic Libraries

Session Description: More and more libraries are supporting authors and scholarly publishing by hosting and supporting open-access ejournals. But how does a library initiate such a service, especially a library with a small staff? What are the practical things one needs to know to get started and to sustain ejournal hosting? The library at Abilene Christian University began its foray into journal hosting two years ago. The speaker will share what staff discovered, why the library took on this role, service implementation and strategies, how to find potential journals, and key challenges and responses along the way. Most importantly, the speaker will talk about the role the library plays throughout the process, sharing what worked and what did not.

Speaker Bio: Laura Baker is the Librarian for Digital Research and Learning at Abilene Christian University. She explores how digital information changes the way people do research and how those changes affect the services the library offers. Professional interests include emerging technologies, mobile services, holistic user experience, and open source solutions. She is enthusiastic about making great library experiences for patrons and staff alike. Laura received her MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin and a BBA in computer information systems from ACU.

Session Time: 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. CDT

Session Title: Community Publishing Partnerships

Intended Audience: Public Libraries

Session Description: The Los Gatos Library and Smashwords are working together with local community partners to involve the entire community in publishing. The initiative is called Community Publishing Partnerships, and started with a collaboration among Smashwords, Los Gatos High School English Class 9 A (taught by Tonya McQuade) and the Los Gatos Library. Free self-publishing tools at Smashwords were used to teach the English class about self-publishing. This learning experience was built around the concept of encouraging all the class members to write original poems and contribute them to a jointly published anthology. Thus all the members of the class became published authors and learned about the publishing process as well. The class broke up into teams, some to do editing, some to engage in marketing, some to create cover art and some to plan a book release party. The entire project was accomplished with lightning speed in six weeks, and upon release the book reached #1 in the iTunes poetry category.

The Community Publishing Partnership is supported by an innovation grant from the Pacific Libraries Partnership, a San Francisco Bay area library mega-consortium. This grant provided funds of $15,000 to build two mobile self-publishing labs to be used to support community groups such as the Los Gatos High School class in producing and viewing their ebooks.

The Community Publishing initiative will additionally be working with local writers groups, other libraries and librarians, and local senior facilities to engage these groups in self-publishing.

This presentation, including additional speaker Mark Coker, will tell the story of this successful partnership, how it evolved, how it was implemented, and what is planned for the future.

Speaker Bio (Henry Bankhead): Henry Bankhead is currently a Town Librarian at the Los Gatos Library.
He is active in ALA and reviews literary fiction and romance for Library Journal. He is also a 2014 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. In addition to an MLIS he has an MFA in painting. His passion for open source is only rivaled by his obsession with eBooks and self-publishing, his addiction to fiction, and his quest to provide unparalleled customer service.

Session Time: 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. CDT

Session Title: How a Librarian Can Become Active in Publishing and Make a Difference

Intended Audience: Academic and Public Libraries

Session Description: Currently, the publishing industry is in turmoil, and both libraries and librarians have been paying the price. The past decade has been marked by the violent tormented death of some large publishing firms and a magnificent rebirth of self-publishing and the small specialized press. In academia, the cost of a textbook produced by the behemoth publishing house has skyrocketed.

High textbook costs hurt both students and the academic libraries, and contribute to the escalating cost of a college education. To combat the leviathan textbook publishers, the faculty of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology started writing their own textbooks, and formed a small non-profit academic press to contract for quality editorial services and to cheaply distribute the textbooks to students.

Speaker Bio: As the campus librarian, Dr. Beinhoff has been an active participant in both the creation and the management of this new press. In her presentation, she will outline the pros and cons of the small independent academic press, how the creation of this press has benefited the library and the students at her university, and why librarians need to become active participants in the publishing industry.

Session Time: 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. CDT

Session Title: DIY Publishing with Open Journal Systems

Intended Audience: Academic Libraries

Session Description: The Oklahoma State University Libraries have been publishing open-access journals and other publications using Open Journal Systems since 2008. This presentation will offer insight into the process of acquiring content, starting a journal, and technical maintenance. The presenter will share her experiences with the ups and downs of publishing and using open-source software to do it. This presentation will mainly interest librarians who want to help their patrons create and manage content online.

Speaker Bio: Sump-Crethar is a Digital Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University. Her primary responsibilities include EndNote and Open Journal Systems among other things. Her work with Open Journal Systems has allowed her to assist editors with publishing their journals online for open access.
She has been a librarian for the last 10 years and has worked in private, public and academic settings.

Session Time: 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. CDT

Session Title: Williamson County Public Library's Publishing Adventure

Intended Audience: Public Libraries

Session Description: The speaker will tell the story of how the Williamson County (TN) Public Library created the publishing imprint Academy Park Press and wrote its first book, entitled The Williamson County Public Library presents: Bucky and Bonnies Library Adventure. A children's book involving two miniature horses and their visit to the library.

Also covered in the session will be what the library is doing now to assist local authors, including the Williamson County Public Library's Janice Keck Literary
Award contest, and assisting local authors get published via IngramSpark.

Speaker Bio: Dolores Greenwald, an Alabama native, brings both extensive education credentials as well as significant experience, all in public libraries, to the Williamson County Public Library. She holds BA and MA degrees in History and the MS in Library Science. She has compiled over sixteen years of increasingly responsible positions in the Boston and Dallas public library systems and for six years was Director of the Sachse (Dallas/Ft. Worth
metroplex) City Public Library.

Dolores joined the Williamson County Public Library as its Director in July 2011. Currently, she is a member of the Franklin Noon Rotary, Sister Cities Board member, as well as a volunteer member of the Breakfast with the Mayors.
She is a member of Leadership Franklin’s class of 2013.

Session Time: 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. CDT

Session Title: A For-Fee Publishing Service for the Local Community

Intended Audience: Academic and Public Libraries

Session Description: The University of North Texas Libraries is launching a new service to publish works of scholarship, both new and reissued, from the UNT community that are not appropriate for a university press or other scholarly publisher. All publications will be freely available to read online, and some will also be available in print or as e-books.

While publishers traditionally invest in a project up front and attempt to recover those costs through sales or subscriptions, the UNT Libraries keeps its publishing services lean enough that the cost to publish can be entirely covered up front, freeing the Libraries from the constraints of business models that attempt to recover that investment through sales. Publishing partners (authors or editors) keep their copyright, and if the publishing partner wishes to make print or e-book versions available for sale, the royalty rate on these is greater than with a conventional publisher that needs to recover the costs.

This presentation will discuss the framing of this service and the distribution channel options considered in establishing it.

Speaker Bio: Kevin S. Hawkins is director of library publishing for the University of North Texas Libraries. He has worked in library publishing for ten years, mostly at the University of Michigan Library. See his website:
http://www.ultraslavonic.info/ .

Session Time: 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. CDT

Session Title: Legal Issues in Printing and Publishing for Users

Intended Audience: Academic and Public Libraries

Session Description: As libraries increasingly take on roles that look more like publishers than traditional libraries, from creating books or ebooks out of user-generated content to establishing their own publishing services, a range of legal issues needs to be considered and addressed. Learn where to start and where to go to protect your library and your users, and to make life easier for everyone!

Speaker Bio: Gretchen is a non-practicing academic librarian and a practicing attorney of 13 years specializing in copyright, privacy, and other matters related to digital information. She has her own practice, in which she helps libraries, educational institutions, non-profits, and small businesses function productively and successfully in a digital world by providing legal counsel and advising as well as training services.

Session Time: 10:00 - 10:45 a.m. CDT

Session Title: Veteran's Writing Workshops

Intended Audience: Academic and Public Libraries

Session Description: The St. Louis Public Library, along with the Missouri Humanities Council, and Warriors Alliance have partnered to develop an eight-month writing program designed to help military veterans and their family members learn to write their stories. These are drop-in workshops, and those wishing can attend any or all workshops, depending on the needs of the individual. Poetry, prose and non-fiction writing are discussed as well as using multimedia to include music, photos and video in one's creation.

Speaker Bio: I'm an Army brat, having lived throughout the United States and Germany.

I’m also a Marine Corps veteran prior to attending the University of Missouri-Columbia. I started my library career in an academic library as a para-professional and transitioned to a public library as a reference librarian. I have been an assistant branch manager, a branch manager and now I’m the 1st Floor Manager of Central Library for the St. Louis Public Library. As the 1st Floor Manager I supervise staff, programs and services in 5 different departments or rooms. These are the Center for the Reader (fiction), Studio (AV), Children's Library and Teen Lounge (YS dept.), and Science and Technology (500's/600's).

Session Time: 10:00 - 10:45 a.m. CDT

Session Title: Library Publishing and OERs: The Open SUNY Textbooks Program

Intended Audience: Academic Libraries

Session Description: Open SUNY Textbooks (http://www.opensuny.org) is a multi-college program with State University of New York (SUNY)faculty and libraries publishing open textbooks and promoting open educational resources (OER) use. The program started as an innovative publishing program with key strategies including collaboration across SUNY and libraries and rapid prototype processes and services. The first pilot of the program received 38 manuscript proposals, with 15 selected for eventual publication (a total of six published to date).

In the second pilot, 46 proposals were received and reviewed, with 15 more selected for publication in 2015. The publishing program includes peer review, copy editing, and some instructional design services. This presentation provides a brief summary of the program, lessons learned and next steps to significantly expand the program and adoption of OERs.

Speaker Bio: Kate Pitcher is currently Interim Director of Milne Library at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Geneseo. Prior to this position, she was Head of Technical Services & Collection Development and a member of the library's publishing team and chair of the scholarly communications team.

Her background at Milne Library also includes positions working in reference, instruction, government documents and as Web Development Librarian before her appointment as Head of Technical Services. Technical Services is a seven person team, and in addition to acquisitions, cataloging and special collections, this unit leads much of the implementation of Scholarship and Publishing Services at Milne Library. Kate serves as Project Manager for Digital Thoreau http://digitalthoreau.org/, and provides management of the publishing projects including Open SUNY Textbooks.

Kate received her M.L.S. from the University at Buffalo. Kate's previous experience includes reference services at The New York Public Library and the Rochester Public Library.

Session Time: 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. CDT

Session Title: The Woodneath Story Center - Everyone Has a Story but Not Everyone is Ready to Tell It.

Intended Audience: Public Libraries

Session Description: Whether it is the "great American Novel" or a memoir, or a collection of family recipes, everyone has a story in them. Unfortunately, most people are not ready to tell that story. By taking a more holistic view of literacy and through creative partnerships, Mid-Continent Public Library builds on the library's traditional role (to collect and disseminate information/stories) through this program. Perspective writers and aspiring storytellers come together to learn the mechanics of writing, the skill of engaging storytelling, and ultimately create a project to share. Authors support each other through peer editing and review. However, the library also receives support from programmatic partners like The National Storytelling Network and The Writer’s Place.

The goal of the Story Center is not to displace our primary content providers. From time to time, there will be interesting books published and printed at Woodneath Press. The real goal is for people to become more accomplished and skilled at writing and communicating ideas. In a day when most thoughts seem to be communicated through 140 character bursts, this seems to be a very worthwhile goal.

Speaker Bio: The Woodneath Story Center team is comprised of Steve Potter, Andie Paloutzian, and Cody Croan. Andie has been instrumental in building relationships with program partners and helping to create our programming schedule. Cody is the Woodneath Press manager and has been responsible for printing and helping authors publish their works, including the assignment of ISBNs and filing for copyright. Steve is the MCPL director and is a primarily responsible for the Story Center vision.

Session Time: 10:00 - 10:45 a.m. CDT

Session Title: Embedded Librarian in Book Friends: Student Club for Reading

Intended Audience: Academic and Public Libraries

Session Description: This proposal explores the embedded librarianship model in the context of academic librarians serving as embedded librarians in student clubs, particularly in this university - New York University Shanghai - where librarians support reading collections, attend book discussions but most importantly create and co-promote programs that address the interest and importance of reading and writing beyond academia in this university. The speaker will offer successful programming and event ideas and outreach initiatives that have made the "Book Friends" club flourish. In one example, the librarians promoted "banned book week," where students, particularly those in Book Friends, read and discussed banned fiction in America and China. This has become an intricate situation which will be explored in greater detail. Another programming event focused on LGBTQ writers where club members read and discussed the writings of LGBTQ.

For writing workshops, the embedded librarian provided resources for creative writing but most importantly organized events such as inviting local authors from Shanghai to read from their works and talk about their writings. Some have even volunteered to lead writing workshop labs. Other programs include fan fiction contests where members write and share their writings in a contest.

These are some ideas that have taken place where the embedded librarian has promoted and supported local writers and students. These case studies can create inspirations or ideas for attendees to become embedded in their own reading and writing communities.

The speaker will be presenting from Shanghai, China, his current work location, where he will also explore the challenges of supporting cultural reading initiatives in a country that enforces different levels of censorship policies. How can an American library at NYU Shanghai create an opportunity or dialogue to promote freedom of reading, writing and expression in this cultural context? The speaker will address these issues and suggest best practices to promote and support freedom of creative expression in writing and reading.

Speaker Bio: Raymond Pun is currently reference and research services librarian in New York University Shanghai where he provides data and digital services support, reference and research consultations, and instructional services in New York University’s newest global campus.

Previously, for seven years, he worked in the New York Public Library:
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building as a research librarian where he provided reference and research services, managed social media tools, created and coordinated public and outreach programs and taught digital research and information literacy.

In 2014, he was named as one of American Library Association's Emerging Leader and in 2012, the Library Journal nominated him as a Mover and Shaker.

He has presented widely, and published numerous articles and book chapters on digital scholarship in the humanities, public engagement and outreach services, international librarianship, and Chinese and Middle Eastern cultural studies. Along with Scott Collard, he is the co-editor of the forthcoming book, "The Future of American Libraries Abroad: Creating Vision and Strategy for Building American Library Services Abroad."

Session Time: 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. CDT

Session Title: A Librarian as a Managing Editor

Intended Audience: Academic Libraries

Session Description: Several years ago Dr. Pamela Stewart Fahs, Professor and Decker Endowed Chair of Rural Health Nursing, approached Binghamton University Libraries with an unique and exciting proposal. The Decker School of Nursing was planning to take ownership of the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, and Dr. Fahs wanted to know if the Libraries would be interested in assisting with the editorial and managerial process. The Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, an open access, peer-reviewed publication, is the official journal of the Rural Nurse Organization and is a valuable resource to nurses providing health care services to populations in rural areas.

Erin Rushton, Web Services Librarian and Subject Librarian for Nursing, was named Managing Editor. She helps support the publishing system and is responsible for editing the pdf articles for publication and adding LinkOuts to PubMed and dois. She also offers additional services such ensuring the journal is properly indexed in relevant databases and by permanently preserving the journal in Rosetta, the Libraries’ digital preservation system.

Many research libraries support alternative publication models through membership in organizations such as SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and through Scholarly Communications Programmes. Few libraries, however, actively collaborate with university departments and scholarly societies to publish these types of journals. The Libraries’ participation on this project created a unique opportunity to innovate and explore a new model of service traditionally not offered by libraries. While the model of library as publisher presents new challenges, it aligns closely with the Libraries’ mission to support teaching and research of the university through innovative thinking, open inquiry, and collaborative partnerships.

Speaker Bio: Erin Rushton is the Web Services Librarian at Binghamton University Libraries. She earned her MLIS in 2004 from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.