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 — 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).
Defending Discussion: The Silencing of Professor Anna Hayward
As a publisher devoted to telling the stories of people who are often disregarded or forgotten because of their social identity, I want to be on the record as supporting Anna’s right to initiate a discussion on behalf of those who do not have a voice. Furthermore, I believe we need to give people space to characterize situations and circumstances as they see them, even if we strenuously disagree with the words they choose.