Libraries, Presses, and Publishing, SPEC Kit 357

Taylor, Laurie N.; Keith, Brian W; Dinsmore, Chelsea; Morris-Babb, Meredith

39 SPEC Kit 357: Libraries, Presses, and Publishing
Comments N=9
4-ish “full” people--comprising %s of 8 of us.
A few librarians and other professionals
All “library press/imprint” activities are handled by the Espresso Book Machine Coordinator. Other
activities, such as the production of the Turfgrass Information File (the primary index for this
discipline), are handled by the Digital Information Division.
Limited answers to people just in the department for library publishing and not including their support
from individuals across the libraries.
Other staff is one or two students.
The librarians engaged in the library publishing department itself are a Scholarly Communication and
Publishing Librarian, Copyright Librarian, Digital Scholarship and Instruction Liaison Librarian. The
technical specialists include the Digital Publishing Specialist and Research Programmer for Scholarly
Communication and Publishing.
The Libraries are currently hiring for the LibraryPress@UF Coordinator. The other staffing for the
LibraryPress@UF is represented in the staffing for the libraries overall, and are complemented by the
staffing and expertise in the UF Press. The LibraryPress@UF is also collaborating with the UF Press on
a Mellon Open Book grant, for which several people from the press are included. This is a time-limited
endeavor, and the 1 person hired on the grant funds reports to the press. For the purposes of sharing
information on collaboration, the person is included here.
These are headcounts FTE numbers are much smaller.
This category includes the work coming out of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office and
involves a portion of the time of one librarian and one support staff person and a significant portion of
time from two editorial professionals.
20. Please indicate which categories of staff are engaged in each type of publishing activity provided
by the library, the institutional press, or the library press. Check all that apply. N=46
Activity Librarian Other
professional
Support
staff
Other staff
category
N
Project development 33 21 6 — 40
Design 9 19 8 — 27
Editorial 15 14 5 — 26
Distribution 17 13 8 1 24
Image and permissions clearance 14 6 4 2 20
Marketing 14 13 8 — 20
Material production 8 7 8 2 18
Printing and binding management 4 7 6 — 15
Total Respondents 42 27 20 4 46
Comments N=12
All editorial responsibilities fell on the shoulders of our faculty editors. We here in the library provided
initial setup, configuration, and training.
Distribution and marketing through Scholar Works is by search engines.
Instructional designers could be involved in some of our OER projects.

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39 SPEC Kit 357: Libraries, Presses, and Publishing
Comments N=9
4-ish “full” people--comprising %s of 8 of us.
A few librarians and other professionals
All “library press/imprint” activities are handled by the Espresso Book Machine Coordinator. Other
activities, such as the production of the Turfgrass Information File (the primary index for this
discipline), are handled by the Digital Information Division.
Limited answers to people just in the department for library publishing and not including their support
from individuals across the libraries.
Other staff is one or two students.
The librarians engaged in the library publishing department itself are a Scholarly Communication and
Publishing Librarian, Copyright Librarian, Digital Scholarship and Instruction Liaison Librarian. The
technical specialists include the Digital Publishing Specialist and Research Programmer for Scholarly
Communication and Publishing.
The Libraries are currently hiring for the LibraryPress@UF Coordinator. The other staffing for the
LibraryPress@UF is represented in the staffing for the libraries overall, and are complemented by the
staffing and expertise in the UF Press. The LibraryPress@UF is also collaborating with the UF Press on
a Mellon Open Book grant, for which several people from the press are included. This is a time-limited
endeavor, and the 1 person hired on the grant funds reports to the press. For the purposes of sharing
information on collaboration, the person is included here.
These are headcounts FTE numbers are much smaller.
This category includes the work coming out of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office and
involves a portion of the time of one librarian and one support staff person and a significant portion of
time from two editorial professionals.
20. Please indicate which categories of staff are engaged in each type of publishing activity provided
by the library, the institutional press, or the library press. Check all that apply. N=46
Activity Librarian Other
professional
Support
staff
Other staff
category
N
Project development 33 21 6 — 40
Design 9 19 8 — 27
Editorial 15 14 5 — 26
Distribution 17 13 8 1 24
Image and permissions clearance 14 6 4 2 20
Marketing 14 13 8 — 20
Material production 8 7 8 2 18
Printing and binding management 4 7 6 — 15
Total Respondents 42 27 20 4 46
Comments N=12
All editorial responsibilities fell on the shoulders of our faculty editors. We here in the library provided
initial setup, configuration, and training.
Distribution and marketing through Scholar Works is by search engines.
Instructional designers could be involved in some of our OER projects.

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38 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
These staff provide support to the library [i.e., institutional] press as part of their overall responsibilities.
This is inclusive of LibraryPress@UF staffing as well. Librarians with substantive (at least 1% of time
contributions) involved in LibraryPress@UF activities are: 1) Digital Scholarship Librarian and Editor-
in-Chief of the LibraryPress@UF 2) Agriculture &Digital Initiatives Librarian, UF-OJS Team Founder
and Leader, and UF-LPC representative 3) IR@UF Manager 4) Chair of Digital Production Services 5)
Digital Production Services Manager 6) Chair of Cataloging 7) other professionals in cataloging.
Varies with the project.
We are in the process to start a publishing services program, which I am the main and only librarian
assigned to create and manage this new service. It is not a library press and UConn doesn’t have an
academic press. The main goal is to educate our faculty about the option of using bepress’ Digital
Commons as a platform for them to publish their OA journals, monographs, or OER content. We hope
to offer the following services: set up of publishing workflow (peer-review, manuscripts submission),
webpage for their journal, archiving through Portico. We are also exploring to offer DOI and facilitate
obtaining ISSN for the journals, but we are in the beginning stages of this process that I am overseeing.
At this point, I am managing too our IR and educating our faculty about author’s right regarding self-
archiving and adding their pre- and post-prints into the IR. Also, we are revising our old policy pages
to reflect our OA policy and MOUs between the library and departments regarding using and adding
content to the IR. Also, worked with the editors of one of our OA journals to update the OA policy and
author’s rights submission forms to reflect our OA policy.
We’re considering the small proportion of our digital collections activity that’s producing original
content to be library publishing which uses the same people and infrastructure as all the digital
collections work the librarians and technologists included above each contribute a small proportion of
their time to original content.
18. Please indicate how many individuals in each staff category are engaged in the publishing
activities provided by the institutional press. N=3
Librarian Other professional Support staff Other staff category Comments
5 30
1 2 These staff are allocated 100% to
the publishing activities provided
by the library [i.e., institutional]
press.
6 1 1 1 F/T, 5 PT. P/T includes staff
from business, IT, foundation
development which have
responsibilities to the press.
19. Please indicate how many individuals in each staff category are engaged in the publishing
activities provided by the library press. N=13
Staff Category Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev N
Librarian 1 3 1.50 1 0.71 10
Other professional 1 8 2.44 2 2.30 9
Support staff 1 2 1.29 1 0.49 7
Other staff category 2 3 2.50 2.50 0.71 2

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Library-publishing service is in development.
Many of these services are through liaising with the UF Press for their provision of services, especially:
design, printing and binding management, material production, distribution, and marketing.
Other professionals are also support staff.
Our work does not fall into these categories. We sometimes send projects out for design. We don’t do
distribution or binding.
Please note that publishing activities in our library are digital, not print. So by “Design” I mean web
design of our sites by “distribution” I mean support of servers and creation of metadata.
The librarians and academic professionals in our Scholarly Communication and Publishing unit
collaborate on virtually every aspect of the production process.
These activities are performed by the Library of Congress’s co-publishers.
Through bepress’ Digital Commons
We’ve interpreted “distribution” as the exposure of material digitally, enabling access to users.
21. Is a graduate degree in library/information science required for any professional staff engaged in
publishing activities? N=52
Yes 17 33%
No 35 67%
If yes, please identify the position(s) and briefly describe the job activity, KSA, or other factor that
led to requiring that degree. N=15
All library positions here require a graduate library degree.
Archival organization and structure is important in set-up and organization of digital repository along
with copyright and permissions knowledge.
Degree required for librarian classification.
Digital Repository Librarian, Copyright &Licensing Librarian, and two liaison librarians with
RDM specializations
Our Head of Web Services is a librarian. One of the considerations is that librarians (faculty) cannot
report to support staff/other professionals. That may become an issue as publishing activities become
more robust in the Hollander area.
Scholarly communication coordinator (librarian position) assists with publishing activities, providing
copyright guidance, assisting with ISSN application, providing marketing advice, revising MOUs, etc.
Scholarly communication librarian supports primarily journal publishing and institutional repository
activities. The degree is required for all faculty librarians.
Scholarly Communications Librarian Digital Production, Collection Preservation, and Conservation
Section Head. Both positions require a deep understanding of the workings behind publishing activities.
The section head also supervises support staff.
The Digital Publishing Librarian acts as a service manager for an institutional repository built on open
source software, which requires understanding researcher needs, prioritizing software development
work, collaborating with library departments, and contributing to a professional community of
librarians and engineers. In addition to the repository, he also manages a web service for publishing
journals and conference proceedings. As an outreach librarian, he engages faculty and students with

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