Publishing and librarianship in the news, and at school
So following in the tradition of The Catalogue Projects here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities, the convergence of school and not-school for our Head Alien continues apace, building a life that is increasingly bookish in the whole.
This time the course is LIS 591 Publishing, an examination of current trends and issues in publishing, and the intersections of the publishing industry with contemporary society, the educational and cultural sectors, and librarianship.
One of our assignments is to create a “current news e-book or website” exploring articles connected with our weekly topics, which I thought would also align nicely with our goal here to “celebrate our shared delight and curiosity in books, about books, over books.” Fortunately my instructor agreed and so here it is, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of LIS 591, my current news e-book that will grow as new articles get added, and perhaps even beyond the life of the course.
Happy reading and exploring!
– Winston
For this week’s addition to the library school book news project we’re stepping a bit outside the usual trade book publishing focus here at The Butterflies & Aliens Library. But in the big business that is publishing, textbook publishing is the biggest. So as a bibliophile and a student, any push to make textbooks free is going to get my attention…