Library Publishing Programs at Capacity: Addressing Issues of Sustainability and Scalability

This article discusses the changes to overall goals, direction, and services that were made to two library publishing programs at University A and University B when they were no longer able to grow their programs due to an inability to hire additional staff and COVID-19-instigated staff reassignments. Description of Programs University A's publishing program grew out of its institutional repository, and, at its peak, published 7 open access journals. In addition, University A's Libraries founded a University Press in 2016, which has published 6 books as of 2021. University B's publishing program began publishing open access journals in 2008, and it has grown to include over 20 journals. Lessons Learned Both University A and University B's publishing programs have faced scalability and sustainability issues, which were further exacerbated by COVID-19. The focus of our library publishing programs, as well as many others, has been on continual growth, which is not sustainable without the ability to hire additional staff or allocate staff time differently. We argue that standardizing services as well as creating a business plan can help ensure publishing programs are sustainable and scalable. Next Steps We hope to begin a conversation among library publishers about acknowledging limits and creating achievable definitions of success outside of continual growth.

Application of computer technologies and their potential to develop geophysical mapping

The author describes four main work directions of creating geophysical maps using modern software, represented by specialized systems (SSS) and geographic information ones (GIS). The technological features of data processing practice stages and creating geophysical fields’ digital models, the compilation and designing geophysical maps’ thematic content as results of geological and geophysical works are considered. The main tasks of combined use of GIS and SSS tools were identified. To overcome these shortcomings, additional tools were developed for ArcGIS, as the leading system in the oil and gas industry. They ensure the preservation of design parameters for color scales adopted in the SSS; automatic calculation of the labels’ rotation angle to the objects of point localization; maintaining the layer structure of map projects at exporting to publishing program formats. The solutions considered in the article can be applied for compilation and design of isoline maps in some other areas of thematic cartography, and can also contribute to improving the cartographic component of domestic geological and geophysical software products and geographic information systems.

RUTHENIAN COMMUNITY OF THE INTERWAR TIME THROUGH THE LENS OF "LEMKO" NEWSPAPER

Summary. The purpose of the article is to clarify the informational potential of the "Lemko" newspaper as a source for covering the situation of the Ruthenians in the interwar period. The methodological basis of the article is the principles of systematization, historicism and comparability with the use of cultural-historical and comparative-typological methods. The scientific novelty of the article is an attempt to analyse the situation of the Ruthenian community through the lens of the newspaper "Lemko". Conclusions. The study convincingly demonstrates that "Lemko" was an original newspaper with a certain publishing program. Its pages reflected the little-known daily life of pro-Moscophile Lemkos. It has been noted that the ideological beliefs of the publishers were marked by reckless Ukrainophobia in their articles. Being blinded by anti-Ukrainianism, the newspaper’s editors were unable to offer their readers any constructive ideological program. As a result, the mentality of the Lemkos-Moscophiles was preserved at the level of the nineteenth century outlook. This strategy, in the end, had devastating consequences for the fate of all Moscophiles: such ideological optics made them unable to face the challenges of the modern age, where only the united national communities, who were ready for difficulties ahead, won. Instead, the "Lemko" newspaper offered the Ruthenian population outdated values of the isolated mountainous terrain. Therefore, despite the considerable efforts of the newspaper’s publishers to spread "Lemko’s" influence to the Ruthenian audience in Lemkivshchyna and in emigration centres, the newspaper could not compete with pro-Ukrainian publications and, despite strong state aid, ceased to exist.

Media

The community at the heart of the migration to the Pacific Northwest was formed around a coterie of writers, whose distinctive arguments had come to prominence in a self-published magazine of theology and cultural criticism, Credenda Agenda (est. 1988). Over the last thirty years, the status and influence of this group has grown to warrant their working with major publishers, such as Random House and HarperCollins, and prominent writing partners, such as the late Christopher Hitchens, while also producing video productions on Netflix and Amazon Prime. This publishing program has been central to the community’s growth, advertising their key ideas while inviting readers and viewers to participate in the society that they established. Surveying this media culture, this chapter describes a well-resourced and increasingly influential conservative cultural movement that is preparing for survival, resistance, and the possibility that, as materiel for “God’s emerging army,” pens may be mightier than swords.

Cicero among the Martyrs: A Reassessment of the First Edition of Nicholas Grimald’s Thre bokes of duties (1556)

Nicholas Grimald’s translation of Cicero’s De officiis has long been revered as the standard version of one of the most popular Tudor school texts, as well as one of the first contributions towards a theory of translation in English. This article reassesses the work’s cultural and political impact through a close examination of its paratexts within the immediate publishing context at the office of Richard Tottel in 1556. It argues that Tottel’s material presentation of the book in a larger publishing program subtly re-encodes the work’s political, ideological, and religious message for his Marian readership. Tottel’s strategy in publishing Grimald’s Duties at this juncture was both to reclaim Cicero’s authority for the Marian program of Catholic restoration and to invest this program with the humanist credentials of influential early Tudor educational reformers.

Benito Arias Montano

Benito Arias Montano (b. c. 1525/27–d. 1598) was a Spanish humanist, censor, polymath, and chaplain to King Philip II, as well as librarian for the royal library at El Escorial. He is best known for having produced the Polyglot Bible—also known as the Biblia Regia (Royal Bible)—printed by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp, a monumental undertaking for which it was necessary to move physically to the Netherlands for an extended period of seven years. There he became an agent of international book culture by virtue of his work on the Inquisitorial Index of prohibited and expurgated books, as well as an acquisitions broker for the Spanish royal library and a circle of prominent Spanish intellectuals including Fernando de Herrera and Francisco Pacheco. In addition to printing the Royal Bible, Plantin also received a contract from the Spanish Crown to print other devotional literature (prayer books, breviaries, missals, books of hours, etc.). Arias Montano supervised this publishing program too. The “Rey Prudente” trusted his judgement enough to request his input on important political decisions after he distinguished himself as part of the Spanish delegation to the Council of Trent, the multi-year gathering which launched the Counter-Reformation. Educated in theology at the Universities of Seville and Alcalá, he also became a Knight of the Order of Santiago. He wrote poetry and prose in both Latin and Spanish on a wide range of topics including medicine, geology, physics, architecture, botany, and even painting. His epistolary correspondence with a transnational network of merchants, diplomats and intellectuals is voluminous. In addition to the above-mentioned languages, he was also fluent in Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and French. His probable converso origins might explain some of his activities as a Hebraist, mostly focused around providing a more literal translation of the Bible than the outdated, but still standard, Vulgate.

Systemic barriers and allyship in library publishing: A case study reminder that no one is safe from racism

As librarians and library publishers, we frequently engage in scholarly communication efforts that serve a social justice agenda. For example, at the University of San Francisco, we are proud to publish the International Journal of Human Rights Education, of which the latest issue is devoted to indigenous women in research. There are moments, however, when we are reminded that, despite our best efforts, we still operate in an educational and academic system that is rooted in white supremacy and colonialism. The following are examples of bias encountered by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh’s (ULS) publishing program and others, as well as a discussion of the ways in which we as librarians and library publishers can push back against systemic injustices.

Book publishing and local government: the history of relations between publishers and regional administrations in Siberia and the Far East in the 90-ies of XX – 10-s of XXIst century

The article summarizes the historical experience on support of the Siberian and Far Eastern regional book publishing by regional and national republican authorities and management in the late twentieth – early twenty-first century. During 25 years regional administrations have passed a long way from unskillful attempts to copy the support measures practiced at the Federal center, from the single support of individual publications to an elaborate system of assistance for authors and publishers producing socially demanded books, mainly of local and regional content. The author considers the historical evolution of this process – development of management decisions on financing local publishing proposals aimed at strengthening the cultural, scientific and creative potential of the regions in the East of Russia. The classification, characteristics and evaluation of each of the forms for publishing support used in the regional practice are given. The author has come to conclusion that the best examples of publishing projects effective assistance are the activity of Omsk region and Krasnoyarsk Krai administrations. The former has the support model, in which distribution of funds is based on the publishing program of the regional Ministry of culture. In the latter the funds are allocated in the form of social grants to the regional winners of the annual contest “Book Krasnoyare”, that is fixed in its regional legislation as the protected item of expenditure. It is stated that not all administrations in the regions of Siberia and the Far East are concerned about the development of local publishing. In many regions the forms and level of support for the publishing environment do not meet the needs of society, remain unchanged since the end of the twentieth century.