Consortia in Academic Libraries as Publishers

One speaker presented parts of her dissertation on the role of consortia in academic libraries as publishers. She was speaking as part of the panel on "Privacy, Privatization, Professionalism and the Public Interest: Reconciling Competing Values in Library Practice" on Friday, June 16, 2006. She interviewed librarians in executive roles, such as directors. One of her findings was that 27/30 feel that there is a role for consortia in scholarly publishing. I did not have time to ask her if she was thinking about open access as a publishing model for academic libraries, but her dissertation should be available soon; I believe she said that the title was "Consortia in Academic Libraries."

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Photograph: A picture of the stained glass ceiling at Parliament showing quelqu'un. The names of the Speaker of the House were added to other tiles, but realizing that they would run out of space, a decision was made to add quelqu'un or "others."