A librarian reflects on the doctors, mentors, and quiet moments of compassion that shaped his wife’s journey through medical school — and what “physician, heal thyself” really means when humanity is at stake.
Lived Places Publishing is launching the first phase of our Author Identity Metadata project: A facet to search by author place of origin. After many surveys, focus groups, conference presentations, and lengthy, soul-searching discussions, we learned some key things about how to proceed.
In Tara Goldstein’s biography of her aunt Léa Roback, she uses a writing approach called story merging, where she recounts how her aunt’s activism influenced her own educational and theatre activism.
As AI takes root in the publishing industry, authors and publishing teams alike will need more support as they began to fold AI into daily practice. David Parker lays out three key points of evolution in LPP’s publishing and business operations.
David Parker will be presenting at a virtual session ancillary to the Charleston Conference. He’s on a panel of three publishers (non-profit and commercial) who discuss using data & analytics to advance more equitable and inclusive publishing models.
David Parker will be presenting at The Charleston Library Conference in Charleston, SC on a panel of three publishers (non-profit and commercial) about how to use data & analytics to advance more equitable and inclusive publishing models.
David Parker leads a discussion about the potential for developing more robust catalog records and searchable fields in publishers’ online catalogs – with author-generated and author-approved identity metadata.
David Parker (LPP) and Bill Maltarich (NYU) talk about new models that are sustainable, equitable, and most importanly – do not rely on book processing charges (BPC).
The “sudden” rise of ChatGPT and other LLMs has raised a lot of important issues in teaching and learning environments. However, the shared lived experience between student and teacher should always be celebrated and cherished.
Come Meet David Parker at The Charleston Library Conference, Charleston, SC (November 7-10, 2023). David will be presenting on models for funding open access eBooks and participating in the Vendor Showcase.