For immediate release:
December 9, 2010
For more information, contact:
Julia Blixrud
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
jblix@arl.org
Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is making available the presentations and video archive of “Partnering to Publish: Innovative Roles for Societies, Institutions, Presses, and Libraries.” The seminar was jointly sponsored by ARL and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) on November 10, 2010.
The seminar provided an occasion to learn about current partnerships between librarians and publishers in an environment where traditional roles are shifting and to explore new opportunities for cost-effective and innovative joint ventures. The seminar was organized into four panel sessions. The first provided an overview of the new landscape of collaboration, and other panels discussed the changing roles for editing, production, and marketing.
The overview of the seminar is available at http://www.arl.org/sc/models/lib-publishing/partnering2publish/. The proceedings, with links to slides and videos of each session, can be found at http://www.arl.org/sc/models/lib-publishing/partnering2publish/p2p-proceedings.shtml. The videos were filmed and edited courtesy of Columbia University's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS).
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.