Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)

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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