Come Meet Michael Boezi at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, QC

November 3-5, 2023

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) will be exhibiting at this year’s American Studies Association annual meeting in Montréal, QC

Come to our booth and meet our Partner & Managing Director, Michael Boezi. 

LPP is located in Booth #14 in the exhibit hall: Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, 1201 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West

To set up a meeting in advance, please EMAIL MICHAEL directly.

Taking appointments: FRI 11/3, SAT 11/4: In-person & online/phone

Priorities for the conference:

1. Library Trials: Meet collection development librarians and those librarians who act as department liaisons with faculty. Raise awareness of LPP, and secure new library trial partners. https://livedplacespublishing.com/page/librarians 
2. Call for Proposals: Find new authors who are interested in writing books for one of our 13 collections – either directly or via recommendations from department liaison librarians. https://livedplacespublishing.com/page/collections

RESEARCH: Author Identity Metadata: Establishing Top-Level Categories [SURVEY]

We invite you to participate in our brief survey to help establish an author-led set of standards for identity metadata. Please feel free to share this survey with authors, librarians, and publishing professionals – we will be publishing the results of our research. 

• Take the survey (>5 min)

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About the Publisher

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) is building a catalog of applied and concise course reading material in interdisciplinary collections. Each title we publish explores the intersection of identity and place, humanizing an issue through lived experience(s).

Our 2023 Library Collection is 40 titles. It is delivered with libraries in mind:

• DRM-free, unlimited user access, and unrestricted PDF download of titles
• Whole ebook interlibrary loan to one partner institution at a time
• Affordable, perpetual access pricing with region-appropriate discounts to ensure every university across the globe can own the LPP collection
• 5% of all sales set aside to fund author-choice open access publishing at our average production cost (actual costs to be published on our website and updated every six months)

As we develop our publishing program, we look forward to more feedback and guidance from the library community. To this end, we are offering open-ended trials throughout 2023.

We are growing quickly, with 19 books published to date and 80+ more in development. 9 institutions have purchased our 2023 Library Collection so far, including Georgetown University, University of Toronto, and Cambridge University.

Each LPP book includes learning objectives, recommended assignments and discussion guides, and is written at a length (100-150 pages) to be completed in 2-3 weeks of a course. Lived Places Publishing books are written to bring theory and concept to life and to illustrate the theories and concepts that underpin the curriculum in each discipline we publish to.

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Libraries: Become a trial partner

Authors: Call for proposals

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About Our Books

To view our growing catalog: https://livedplacespublishing.com/catalog

To view our 2023 Library Collection: https://livedplacespublishing.com/page/librarians (including a downloadable title list)

To view our complete list: https://livedplacespublishing.com/page/faculty (including forthcoming titles)

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About Our Mission and Model

• The “why” behind Lived Places Publishing’s focus on exploring the intersection of social identity and place/context
• How publishers can serve libraries with better pricing models, DRM, and ILL policies 
• On the CRT “debate” and how publishers must be outspoken in our support of access to books that our faculty and librarians select
• How the library is central to supporting course design and content selection by Dominic Broadhurst
• On new models for sustainable open access publishing