I’ve had my share of successes and failures in my many years in content-based product management. With this 8-part series, I aim to support product managers tasked with building products that incorporate content, licensed or originally published, into learning and/or research solutions.
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Learning Belongs in the Library — On Critical Race Theory and Book Banning, Publishers Speak Up!
The university library should be a more central resource to faculty in selecting materials from which to design their courses. In the past year I have come to realize there is a much more fundamental and profound argument regarding learning belonging in the library to which I must lend my voice and this column.
Lived Places Publishing: Our Founding Mission
Here’s my overview of the Founding Mission of Lived Places Publishing: Affordable Course Readings, Library-Friendly Access, and Giving Voice to Social Identity in Context and Place
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Learning Belongs in the Library — Developing and Delivering Identity Metadata: Authors and Publisher
We want to work in organizations, institutions, and businesses that acknowledges the diversity and richness that encompasses society. As consumers of information and entertainment, we want to know that this same diversity and richness is being represented in media. As publishers, librarians, and faculty, we want to ensure that our catalogs, our collections, and our courses are representing all voices and all perspectives. This is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion movement that has gained tremendous momentum over the past decade.
Learning Belongs in the Library — Two Years in the Making: The Lived Places Publishing Library Collection
In the middle of the summer of 2020, as the pandemic raged and the death of George Floyd became both a catalyst and an awakening, I awoke one early morning to an all-consuming question: where are the books that explore social identity in the context of place, location, or situation? Where might publishing professionals bring in diverse, inclusive topics? For example, the experience of a person with sensory disability undergoing a surgical procedure; or the experience of a graduate student from Africa newly landed in a teaching position in a university in New Zealand; or an elderly queer person faced with moving into a retirement home; or the experience of a black feminist doing explicitly womanist research; or the reflections of a Mexican-American scholar on growing up in the southern United States? Thus, was born the idea for Lived Places Publishing (LPP).