This document discusses library publishing services and the importance of "non-commodity documents" such as archives, digital collections, and locally created works. It notes that while commercial publishers provide standardized content, libraries can publish unique local content through activities like publishing student works, archives, and special collections. The document advocates for a "360 publishing program" at libraries to further their institutional missions of advancing open scholarship and contributing to local and global communities.
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NITLE Shared Academics: New Directions for Digital Collections by Isaac Gilman
1. Library Publishing Services: Pacific and Beyond
Isaac Gilman | New Directions for Digital Collections at Academic Libraries
2. “[...] the gap that should most concern us in
research libraries today is not the one that lies
between physical and online documents, but
the one that lies between commodity and
non-commodity documents.”
Rick Anderson, 2013
Anderson, R. (2013). Can’t buy us love: The declining importance of library books and the rising importance of special collections. Issue Briefs. New York: Ithaka
S+R. Retrieved from http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog-individual/cant-buy-us-love-rick-anderson-kicks-new-ithaka-sr-issue-briefs-series
3. Non-commodity documents
Unique works: archives, digital collections, locally
created or published works...
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4. Same “bottles/taps”:
•Wiley
•Elsevier
•Springer
•Gale
•Taylor & Francis
Unique craft brews:
•Archives
•Special collections
•Student work
•Publications…
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13. “Missional” publishing
“[T]he Libraries will […] tangibly model the attributes that the
University seeks to instill in our students: excellence in
scholarship, diversity of thought, and the pursuit of just and
sustainable communities.”
“[The Libraries’ publishing services represent] an opportunity
for the University to simultaneously advance its mission—by
contributing to our global community through the publication
of open access scholarship—while also further distinguishing
ourselves from our regional and national peer institutions.”