Intersections: Identity & Place

Course Readings from Lived Places Publishing

The library is central to supporting course design and content selection. Faculty are increasingly asking libraries to acquire and provide materials from a broader, more diverse range of authors and subject areas to augment their courses and meet the needs of their students. 

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) exists to support librarians and faculty in this goal. Each title we publish explores the intersection of identity and place, humanizing an issue through lived experience(s).

Intersections: Identity & Place is a collection of 150 titles that serve as concise course readings (100-150 pages) across a variety of subjects and themes. Here’s a sampling of the titles in the collection. 

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This Collection includes 45 brand new titles for 2026, with many more in development across 23 topic areas.

The rapid adoption of the Intersections Collection by institutions both large and small showcases how these narrative works provide value within the classroom and increase the visibility of marginalized voices. Each of our collections are 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 Intersections Collection
  • 5% of all sales are set aside to fund open access publishing based on our average production cost (published publicly on our website, updated every 6 months)

See complete information about all of the above here in our Librarian Resource Center, including MARC & KBART records.

“As a cataloger I can say that LPP is doing an excellent job in providing on time and meaningful metadata in a standard digital format to the libraries such as ours (Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University) which is compatible with the Integrated Library Systems. The MARC records can be easily digested, indexed, and displayed in a Public Interface of the Library catalog.

The link between acquisitions and cataloguing is an important workflow for publishers; In LPP platform, when a title is acquired for the library from a publishing platform such as LPP, the associated MARC record/metadata is provided instantly which enables quick loading into the library’s catalog and thereby enhances discoverability.

LPP, while taking care of the distribution of the new titles to the libraries, ensures that bibliographic metadata is suitable for library acquisitions. The streamlined acquisitions provided by LPP save time for the libraries in cataloging and they can quickly expose the new titles to the users.“

—Shahrzad Khosrowpour, Librarian at Chapman University

If you have any other questions, please contact us directly: contact@livedplacespublishing.com

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