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The Publishing Community Should More Actively Oppose Book Bans

With a lawsuit filed last week Pen America, Penguin Random House, authors, and parents began fighting book bans. Other publishers should help.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 25, 2023
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post – Manifesto for a New Read Deal

A.J. Boston offers a route for managing closed access e-serials in a way that finds the best value for libraries, the most content for users, keeps publishers solvent, and experiments on behalf of equity.

  • By A.J. Boston
  • May 18, 2023
  • 8 Comments

Guest Post — Do Libraries Still Dream Unified Dreams? Part 2

Today’s post looks at loosely coupled software and services that together could be used to create a modular library system. What are the merits, and flaws, of such an approach and what can libraries (and technology providers) do to remedy some of the less desired effects of such strategies?

  • By Andreas Mace
  • May 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — What is Keeping University Chief Information Security Officers Up at Night

An SNSI research project looks at the views of university Chief Information Security Officers toward network security, potential threats, data security, and the risks posed by Sci-Hub.

  • By Susie Winter
  • Apr 21, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — In Tough Times the Key is to Think Differently

Alan Harvey from Stanford University Press discusses their evolving strategy in turbulent times.

  • By Alan Harvey
  • Mar 8, 2023
  • 5 Comments

Trust and the Personal Library

Who holds the particular book needed by a reader? What is the balance between the personal library and the institutional collection?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jan 9, 2023
  • 6 Comments

A Library of 11 Million Fluid Specimens

The Chicago Field Museum’s basement holds a collection of some 11 million specimens, preserved and stored in fluid.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 4, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Speculation on the Most Likely OSTP Nelson Memo Implementation Scenario and the Resulting Publisher Strategies

What is the most likely scenario for implementation of the OSTP’s Nelson Memo? And what strategies will that offer for publishers?

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 27, 2022
  • 14 Comments

Let the Metadata Wars Begin

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 22, 2022
  • 13 Comments

 Guest Post — What Do Library-Publisher Relations Look Like in 2022?

The AUPresses Library Relations Committee asks Peter Berkery and Mary Lee Kennedy to share their thoughts about how relations between publishers and libraries have changed.

  • By Annie Johnson, Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno
  • May 12, 2022
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post – Cybersecurity and Academic Libraries: Findings from a Recent Survey

Susie Winter reviews recent data on cybersecurity for academic libraries, as well as a survey of awareness and attitudes toward best practices among librarians.

  • By Susie Winter
  • Mar 21, 2022
  • 5 Comments

Accelerating Open Research: A Multi-stakeholder Discussion

Robert Harington reports on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 7, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 3, 2022
  • 17 Comments

Guest Post – Perspectives on a “Unified Approach” to the Future of Open Access  

There is value in exploring the concept of different perspectives on open access in order to begin to develop a “unified approach to open”.

  • By Melissa H. Cantrell, Michael R. Donaldson
  • Jan 11, 2022
  • 9 Comments

Guest Post — What’s Your Vision for a New Model Library?

Members of the OCLC Research Team discuss their project examining changes to library work, collections, and engagement experiences and how they will lead to the future of libraries.

  • By Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ixchel M. Faniel, Brittany Brannon, Brooke Doyle, Brian Lavoie
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • 1 Comment
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