About Our Project
Our report summarizes the strategies and findings of a team of professional librarians who completed a group project to investigate the relationships — or absence thereof — between Research Libraries and Small and Independent Publishers. Our strategy was to initiate communications with three entities: Independent Publishers, Independent Bookstores, and Research Libraries.
The final deliverable includes:
Our objective was to create some type of conduit between Independent Publishers and Research Libraries. We hope you find the
experience of reading this report as exhilarating and informative as the experience of researching and creating it was for us!
-- The Team: Amy Ballmer, Albert Municino, Judith Schwartz, Robert Weiss, October 2014
The final deliverable includes:
- An overview of the current state of the publishing industry, supplemented by an annotated bibliography.
- A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the responses to our questionnaire to research librarians that focuses on their collection development
policies with particular emphasis on their relationships with Independent and Small Publishers. - A comprehensive annotated list of resources that identifies distributors, book bloggers, self-publishers, and related institutions and events.
Our objective was to create some type of conduit between Independent Publishers and Research Libraries. We hope you find the
experience of reading this report as exhilarating and informative as the experience of researching and creating it was for us!
-- The Team: Amy Ballmer, Albert Municino, Judith Schwartz, Robert Weiss, October 2014