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  • Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)

    Editor's Note

    This issue of CSLP is small but mighty, and I'm proud and grateful for the exceptional contributions of our authors. I'm also grateful for their inexhaustible patience, as changes in staffing, migration to a new platform, and the joys and distractions of parenting caused numerous delays.

    We have added a new section for this second issue, featuring an essay by Melanie Schlosser, who many readers know well in her role fostering the growing Library Publishing Coalition community. In some ways, her piece is a case study of the field itself, thoughtfully considering the complex and evolving relationships that make up the infrastructure of library publishing. Melanie's words remind me of all we've built together, and what we have to protect as we face challenges to our missions and our budgets.

    The two case studies, while tackling very different publishing efforts, share a common interest in public scholarship and ways to engage audiences beyond the academy. In their piece, Angel Peterson and Ally Laird describe an ambitious collaboration that, through cross-library expertise and community outreach, showcased Pittsburgh's place in literary history. Martin Wood, Roxann Mouratidis, and Mark Bauer discuss the process of developing a journal focused on diabetes, aiming to meet the needs of not only researchers, but also the patients and loved ones who experience the reality of this disease day-to-day.

    For our third issue, to be published in 2026, I will be joined by new co-editor Friederike Sundaram of Stanford University. I'm thrilled to have another partner-in-publishing as we move toward long-term sustainability for CSLP.

    Finally, thank you to our peer reviewers for this issue, Liz Weinfurter and Sarah McKee, for their constructive and thoughtful feedback.

    Perry Collins, CSLP Editor-in-Chief

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  • Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023)

    Editors' Note

    As library publishers, we constantly engage with questions that have long-term consequences for the future of our programs and for scholarly communications as a whole. How do we build and sustain equitable models of open access? How do we work internationally and in multiple languages? Perhaps most importantly, how do we translate our often lofty values and missions into concrete projects, workflows, and policies? This is the entry point for Case Studies in Library Publishing (CSLP), which offers a forum for publishers and their collaborators to share details of the projects they have developed. After three years of brainstorming, reflection, conversation, and delays, followed by a full year of editorial labor, we’re so proud to share the first issue of CSLP.

    Within this issue, you will find seven case studies, each discussing a publication or related set of publications within their own unique institutional and disciplinary contexts. Along with their narratives, we have prompted authors to include some background on their respective publishing programs, as well as “project takeaways” that might prove useful to our audience. While all of the publications featured would be considered successful by almost any criteria, we appreciate contributors’ willingness to share lessons learned and course corrections along the way.

    We are grateful for the incredible contributions of our editorial board members jaime ding and Christine Turner, who took on a major role in shaping the vision, policies, and mission of the journal in its first year. We also appreciate the work of our peer reviewers, who provided generous feedback to our authors as well as guidance to us in structuring CSLP’s open peer review process. Thanks to Tracy MacKay-Ratliff, the LibraryPress@UF Publications Design Manager, for her expertise, and Laurie Taylor, former LibraryPress@UF Editor-in-Chief, for her encouragement. As this issue is being published, both of us are departing our professional roles at UF (though not our roles on CSLP) for new opportunities, but we will always value the wonderful colleagues we met and experience we gained. We would also like to acknowledge the Library Publishing Coalition, and the staff and community members who have made it a professional home for so many over the past decade. We hope to see CSLP continue to engage with this network as well as other communities globally.

    Perry Collins & Chelsea Johnston

     

    List of Peer Reviewers

    CSLP follows a model of open peer review, where authors and reviewers are aware of one another’s identities. While we do not publish peer reviews, with permission from the reviewers we acknowledge their service here.

    Zachariah Claybaugh

    Preethi Gorecki

    Corinne Guimont

    Erin Jerome

    Annie Johnson

    James Brooks Kuykendall

    Ally Laird

    Rebecca McNulty

    A. Miller

    John Warren

    Michelle Wilson

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