The Pacific Library Partnership Conference has several
videos with movers and shakers talking about their proposals for the future of public libraries. There
are ideas for community partnerships, programming for kids and adults, and some
interesting ways to engage the community.
And international consortium called the Open Library of Humanities (OHL) launched, providing open
access to seven academic journals, and hopefully more soon. Currently they have journals on topics such as Irish poetry, Comics Scholarship, and Asian studies. From their site:
"The
Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to
publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing
charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who
have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more
accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future."
