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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

Guest Post — Shared Print Down the Rabbit Hole

Libraries’ ability to steward print collections in the future is being compromised by how we manage them now. How can we evolve our shared print strategy to align with the core values of libraries, and to increase the value proposition of print collections. Part 1 of 2.

  • By Heather Weltin, Alison Wohlers, Amy Wood
  • Mar 6, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Niko Pfund

Robert Harington talks to Niko Pfund of Oxford University 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
  • Feb 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Barbara Kline Pope

Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University 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
  • Feb 15, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Reading: It Can’t Be About the Numbers

How many books do we read in a year? Wouldn’t a better question be how well, how thoughtfully we had engaged with long-form content?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jan 26, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A Salute to Library Book Binding and its NISO Standard

You’re probably familiar with “library binding” of books. But just what does that entail?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 19, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

“Mrs. Foster Has Sworn A Rape”; or, What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure

Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jan 18, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Working Toward Compliance and Beyond

Today’s post puts the spotlight on the European Accessibility Act (EAA) directive and how different organizations are getting ready to make their publications and services EAA compliant.

  • By Maxine Aldred, Allison Belan, John Chen, Simon Holt, Miguel Ramos, Damita Snow
  • Jan 16, 2024
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, 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 Karin Wulf, David Crotty, Angela Cochran, Alice Meadows
  • Dec 1, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, 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 Joseph Esposito, Tim Vines, Todd A Carpenter, Roy Kaufman
  • Nov 30, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, 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 Charlie Rapple, Jill O'Neill, Rick Anderson, Dianndra Roberts
  • Nov 29, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Necessity of Book Reviews

Is the scholar-to-scholar exchange found in book reviews still of value to the community? There is concern over their decline.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Nov 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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