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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 3

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Joseph Esposito, Dianndra Roberts, Alice Meadows, Karin Wulf
  • Dec 4, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.

  • By Jasmine Wallace, Rick Anderson, Robert Harington, Roohi Ghosh
  • Dec 3, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 1 today.

  • By David Crotty, Jill O'Neill, Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman
  • Dec 2, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI

Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).

  • By Robert Harington
  • Nov 25, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

It’s a New World? Revisiting What Universities — and Researchers, Libraries, and Publishers — Owe Democracy

In light of recent events, we revisit Karin Wulf’s 2022 post which declared that universities need democracy, and vice versa, and discussed an important book which shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do as both are imperiled.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Nov 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Lessons Learned from a Fair Use Defeat

Several weeks ago, the Internet Archive lost its appeal of the lawsuit brought by a group of publishers opposed to its controlled digital lending programs. Roger Schonfeld examines what can be learned from this fair use defeat.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 30, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Sex and the Serious Reader

No, we’re not advocating anything lascivious. But a reading experience requires a degree of engagement that one essayist overlooks.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

What to Expect and How to Connect at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024

A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.

  • By Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Sep 10, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ensuring the Sustainability of Print

Mindful of ecological factors, decision-making regarding print production shifts, balancing innovation with pragmatism.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Aug 20, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Learning from the Archives to Build the Future at the APS Press

Jon Repetti reflects on the lessons being learned from the American Philosophical Society’s re-entrance into the fray of the scholarly publishing marketplace.

  • By Jon Repetti
  • Aug 13, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – Reconnecting by Reading: A Selection of Books About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Part 2

We learn from each other and about each other through reading. Today part 2 of 2 where we have asked members of the SSP community to recommend books about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility matters.

  • By Damita Snow
  • May 16, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – Reconnecting by Reading: A Selection of Books About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Part 1

We learn from each other and about each other through reading. Today part 1 of 2 where we have asked members of the SSP community to recommend books about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility matters.

  • By Damita Snow
  • May 15, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Navigating the Page and The Reader’s Task

Juggling formats of print vs. digital for books, have developers simply given up on whether there’s room to improve navigation and design?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Mar 12, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Amy Brand

Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass

This is the second in our two-part series highlighting the need for shared print, as a community of membership programs working in parallel to a common goal of long term preservation and access to print resources, to evolve in order to become a more cohesive and sustainable national effort

  • By Heather Weltin, Alison Wohlers, Amy Wood
  • Mar 7, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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