“Mommy, what is tenure?”: Growing Up in a Faculty Household
“Mommy, what is tenure?” is one of my first memories growing up because my father was often anxious and absent since he was on the track to a full professorship in the 1980s.
Libraries
Lived Places Publishing Champions Underrepresented Voices and Identities with the Launch of Their 2026 Collection
Lived Places Publishing (LPP) proudly announces the launch of our 2026 collection of concise course readings – 45 new ebooks forthcoming in 2026. These new titles will also be included in Intersections: Identity & Place, a collection of 150 cross-disciplinary titles.
Lived Places Publishing Launches on the University of Michigan Publishing’s Fulcrum Platform to Enhance Access and Discoverability of Social Identity Scholarship
Lived Places Publishing (LPP) proudly announces its official launch on the Fulcrum.org platform. This milestone marks a significant advancement in the accessibility and discoverability of scholarly content focused on social identity and the lived experience of place.
Lived Places Publishing Announces the Launch of Intersections: Identity and Place
Faculty are increasingly asking campus libraries to provide materials from a broader, more diverse range of authors and subject areas. LPP exists to support librarians and faculty in this goal with a new Collection of 105 ebooks designed as course readings called Intersections: Identity & Place.
David Parker & Kadian Pow Presenting at the UKSG Conference in Glasgow (Apr 10)
David Parker, Co-Founder of Lived Places Publishing and Kadian Pow, Birmingham City University, will be presenting on Author Identity Metadata at this year’s UKSG Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, April 8-10.
Come Meet David Parker at the UKSG 46th Annual Conference and Exhibition in Glasgow
Lived Places Publishing (LPP) will be exhibiting at this year’s UKSG Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, April 13-15.
Learning Belongs in the Library — On Critical Race Theory and Book Banning, Publishers Speak Up!
What is Critical Race Theory – and does it belong in libraries? LPP co-founder David Parker weighs in from the publisher’s perspective.
Meet the Advisory Board #2: Q&A on Libraries and Academic Publishing with Dominic Broadhurst
This Q&A with LPP Advisory Board member Dominic Broadhurst explores the relationship between libraries and publishers, and how that impacts the decisions that Lived Places Publishing makes.
The Lived Places Publishing Library Collection Model
Publisher and co-founder David Parker explores how Lived Places Publishing aims to work with and support libraries in the most fair and effective way possible.