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Library Publishing Is Special: Selection And Eligibility In Library Publishing, Paul Royster
Library Publishing Is Special: Selection And Eligibility In Library Publishing, Paul Royster
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Traditional publishing is based on ownership, commerce, paid exchanges, and scholarship as a commodity, while library activities are based on a service model of sharing resources and free exchange. I believe library publishing should be based on those values and should not duplicate or emulate traditional publishing. University presses have mixed views of library publishing, and libraries should not adopt those attitudes. Library publishers are not gatekeepers; their mission is dissemination. Libraries need to publish because traditional publishing suffers from high rejection rates, required surrender of intellectual property, long production schedules, high cost of products, and limited dissemination. Nebraska’s Zea …
African Poetry Book Fund-African Poetry Library Manual: How To Manage And Set Up The Library., Lorna M. Dawes, Charlene Maxey-Harris
African Poetry Book Fund-African Poetry Library Manual: How To Manage And Set Up The Library., Lorna M. Dawes, Charlene Maxey-Harris
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
The African Poetry Library Initiative, an initiative of the African
Poetry Book Fund, is a collaborative venture to establish
accessible and user-friendly small poetry libraries on the African
continent to support aspiring and established poets and to give
them access to contemporary poetry in books and journals, and
to serve as a resource for poets interested in publication in Africa
and around the world. The initiative will be guided by
collaboration between US and UK publishers of poetry, literary
arts organizations, poet’s libraries and literary journals and
African libraries, writers co-ops or cultural centers, and poets and
will be coordinated …