(29 Oct 2025) ACRL announces the publication of “Library Publishing: How to Launch, Enhance, and Sustain Your Program” edited by Jonathan Grunert, offering perspectives from diverse publishing programs, processes, and challenges that can help you scale content to meet your campus’s needs.
Shifting landscapes of academic publishing, open access initiatives, transformative agreements, and questionable scholarly publishing practices have all contributed to an evolution in the role libraries play within academic institutions and the development of many library publishing programs.
In three parts—Launching, Enhancing, and Sustaining a Library Publishing Program—”Library Publishing” provides library workers and administrators with several considerations for creating a program, as well as a glossary of terms and ways to choose the right technologies, incorporate artificial intelligence, leverage consortia, craft contracts, and more. Chapters offer strategies for approaching the labor involved in library publishing, much of it unseen and requiring new expertise.
Chapter authors—from instruction librarians to dedicated scholarly communication and publishing librarians to teaching and research faculty—offer ways and ideas for campus collaborations and using publishing to enhance student success. In this diversity of thought, library publishing is not a monolith; it is a process by which change can be effected. “Library Publishing” can help you begin and sustain change.
“Library Publishing: How to Launch, Enhance, and Sustain Your Program” is available for purchase in print through the ALA Online Store and Amazon.com; via EBSCO, ProQuest, and other ebook vendors; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. This book is also available as an open access edition.
Source: ALA
