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David Parker is a publisher, writer, and adviser – read his blog at www.parkerthepublisher.com

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David’s extensive experience in academic publishing, his business background, and his sensitivity to the challenges facing both libraries and content providers combine to make him an excellent source of insights and advice. We have found his input invaluable in helping Docuseek figure out how best to serve colleges and universities.

– Jim Davis | President of Docuseek

David is an inspirational executive and publisher, purpose driven and committed to supporting authors to maximize the impact of their work on students, researchers and society more broadly. I would not hesitate to recommend David as a publishing partner, and I look forward to seeing Lived Places Publishing make a lasting contribution at the intersection of social identity and location.

– Tony Roche | CEO of Emerald Publishing

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New Product Development Process (8-Part Series)

July 27, 2022 By David Parker Leave a Comment

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.

David Parker is a Publisher and Consultant and a Column Editor for Against the Grain

Learning Belongs in the Library — On Critical Race Theory and Book Banning, Publishers Speak Up!

March 18, 2022 By David Parker Leave a Comment

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

September 1, 2021 By David Parker Leave a Comment

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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David Parker is a Publisher and Consultant and a Column Editor for Against the Grain

Learning Belongs in the Library — Two Years in the Making: The Lived Places Publishing Library Collection

February 13, 2023 By David Parker Leave a Comment

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).

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Defending Discussion: The Silencing of Professor Anna Hayward

February 4, 2023 By David Parker Leave a Comment

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.

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