Note From Gary Price: Congratulations, well-done, and kudos to our friend, colleague, and mentor, Ann Okerson and her co-author Alex Holzman on the wonderful news posted below. Hooray! A link to the award-winning monograph is found at the bottom of this post.
From ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services ):
Ann Okerson (Photo via ALCTS/ALA)
Ann Okerson (Photo via ALCTS/ALA)The recipients of the 2016 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award are Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman for their monograph “The Once and Future Publishing Library” (CLIR, 2015).
The Outstanding Publication Award is given annually to honor the author or authors of the year’s outstanding monograph, article or original paper in the field of technical services, including acquisitions, cataloging, collection management, preservation, continuing resources and related areas in the library field. Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman will receive a citation and a $250 monetary award on June 25 at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2016 ALA Annual Conference and Exposition in Orlando. Alex Holzman (Photo via ALCTS/ALA)
“The Once and Future Publishing Library” successfully sets the current issues and debates over libraries’ partnerships in publishing into a broader historical context. This monograph demonstrates the breadth, depth and complexity around conversations and ventures taking place in a climate marked by great flux. Drawing on a wide range of sources and studies, the authors offer an important contribution to our current understanding of libraries as publishers. The topic is timely, the insights incisive and the work is rich with questions and recommendations.
Okerson joined the Center for Research Libraries in fall 2011 as senior advisor on Electronic Strategies, working with that organization to reconfigure and redirect various existing programs into digital mode. She also is an INASP Associate, responsible for that organization’s agreements between developing nations consortia and publishers. Previous wide-ranging experience includes 15 years as associate university librarian for Collections & International Programs at Yale University.
Holzman retired as Temple University Press director in 2014 and now heads Alex Publishing Solutions. He has, during a forty-year career, been involved in scholarship as press director, editor, electronic publishing coordinator, author, speaker and salesperson at Temple, Cambridge University Press, Ohio State University Press and Charles Scribner’s Sons. He is currently a Fellow at the Social Science Research Council, a member of the Board of Directors of Transaction Publishers and Senior Editorial Consultant at Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
From Penn State: Penn State University Libraries has expanded its robust scholarly research potential of one of America’s foremost 20th-century writers through the acquisition of the Toby and Betty Bruce ...
From Politico: Far from the trenches in states like Florida and Texas, organizations in deep-blue New York are stepping into the fray by directly lending 25,000 books to non-residents since spring, ...
From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were ...
From a ULC Release: The Urban Libraries Council’s new member tool — the Business Value Calculator — provides public libraries with a concrete way to measure and evaluate its contributions ...
From an Ithaka S+R Post by Kurtis Tanaka: As Ithaka S+R’s research has well documented, people in prison have profound information needs and suffer from an equally profound lack of resources ...
DeepMind’s New Chatbot Uses Google Searches Plus Humans to Give Better Answers (via MIT Technology Review) Inside the 15,000-Strong Record Collection at Hawaii’s State Archives (via Vinyl Factory) South Carolina: ...
Direct to the Full Text of the Resolution Introduced by Congressman Raskin 7 pages; PDF. From PEN America: With free expression and the freedom to read being undermined in America’s ...
From a Joint News Release: Paolo Manghi, CTO of OpenAIRE, is co-leading an international team led by University of North Texas that has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation ...
From ALA (via YouTube): R.L. Stine has been writing scary stories for more than 30 years. His books have sold more than 400 million copies and have been translated into ...
From a DPLA Announcement Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce the release of January 6th on the Record: The Investigation into the Attack on the U.S. Capitol, ...
How Libraries Became Refuges for People With Mental Illness (via Slate) New Online: Special Issue of IFLA Journal to Mark the 20th Anniversary of the IFLA Statement on Libraries and ...
“Restricted Access: An American History of Book Banning” event was held at the New York Public Library on September 21, 2022. A video recording is available here and also embedded ...
