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Hannah Rosen

Strategist, Research and Scholarly Communication, LYRASIS 1438 W. Peachtree NW, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30309 Phone: (800) 999-8558 ext. 2918 Fax: (404) 892-7879 <hannah.rosen@lyrasis.org> www.lyrasis.org

Professional career and activities: Hannah Rosen administers and publishes LYRASIS Research surveys and reports, and facilitates connections between LYRASIS research initiatives and events such as the Leaders Forums and the Annual Member Summit. She is also responsible for managing vendor and not-for-profit partnerships, including, but not limited to, digitization vendors, open access (OA) initiatives, and scholarly communication services. She holds a bachelor’s Degree in social and cultural history and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, with a specialization in Archives, Preservation and Records Management. She came to LYRASIS from The MediaPreserve, where she assisted clients with all aspects of their media digitization projects. favorite books: Jane Eyre, Alice in Wonderland, anything by Sarah Vowell. How/wHere do i see tHe industry in five years: I see the industry in a messy, actively hybrid state of affairs – instead of the majority of electronic resources residing behind paywalls, with a small percentage of resources being open access, I think the percentages will reside around the 50/50 mark. I think the library field thrives on hybridity, and having many different solutions and models for open access, whether pure or hybrid, will lead to greater sustainability. I also believe in five years that library publishing programs will have evolved from many disparate repositories to more concentrated and intentional national and regional grouped repositories and/or publications, to facilitate increased discovery and usage.

Adam Matthew Digital

Adam Matthew Digital, Pelham House, Pelhams Ct., London Rd., Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2AG, UK Phone: +44 (0)1672 511921 (UK) • www.amdigital.co.uk affiliated comPanies: www.quartexcollections.com officers: Khal Rudin, Managing Director. Martha Fogg, Deputy Managing Director. Jennifer Kemp, Deputy Managing Director. association membersHiPs, etc.: ALPSP, UKSG, ALA, ACRL, OLA, NAG. key Products and services: Adam Matthew Digital’s suite of award-winning primary source products can be found here (www.am-

Khal Rudin

Managing Director Adam Matthew Digital Pelham House, Pelhams Court, London Road, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2AG, UK <khal@amdigital.co.uk> www.amdigital.co.uk born and lived: London and lived in England & South Africa. family: Married to Zoe and we have a daughter Verity who is 15 and a son Zach who is 14. favorite books: Flowers for Algernon and Middlemarch. How/wHere do i see tHe industry in five years: Higher Education is going through one of the most difficult periods in its long history. Ultimately these unprecedented challenges are an opportunity to adapt and grow. The good news for publishers and institutions that embrace the change needed is that we have the chance to re-imagine an HE sector that can flourish, with far more flexibility in what is offered, who can attend, and what student life means beyond the traditional campus model. As publishers we need to support online teaching and studying with research platforms that provide for this new landscape. I see a growth of technical innovation that assists and enables engagement with a dispersed community. At a time that humanity is facing enormous challenges, combined with the troubling emergence of populist and extremist political discourse, I hope the importance of the social sciences and humanities to remind us of historical precedent and encourage balanced debate is highlighted and prioritized accordingly. The Adam Matthew Digital mission statement could not be more relevant now and this motivates all of us to grow and to reach as many students as possible: “We believe that at the heart of education is the freedom to think critically. Harnessing the latest technologies, we re-imagine primary sources, to empower

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current and future generations to challenge, analyze and debate.” digital.co.uk/products). Our cross-searchable collections offer primary source material for teaching and research across a wide variety of thematic areas, including: Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Literature, Politics, Theatre, and War and Conflict. New products for 2020 include: Children’s Literature & Culture, Early Modern England, East India Company – Early Voyages, Formation and Conflict, Food and Drink in History, Module 2, Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980, Mass Observation Project: 1981 – 2009, Nineteenth Century Literary Society, and Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain. Adam Matthew Digital’s Quartex platform (www.quartexcollections. com) is a SaaS offering that has been developed to help organizations showcase, share, and celebrate their archival material. Quartex is designed as a simple but powerful resource with functionality that requires no technical knowledge or background, and which allows continued on page 93

customers the flexibility to establish customized workflows based on their unique needs and collections. Subscribers have access to cutting-edge Handwritten Text Recognition, Optical Character Recognition, and Audio/Visual full text search services in platform to help meet accessibility requirements and maximize discovery of all digitized content types. Quartex also utilizes open access tools such as iiiF to facilitate sharing and learning. core markets/clientele: A global network of customers across the education community, including academic institutions, schools, associations, archives, and corporate organizations. Quartex partners include University of Toronto, Baylor University, Loyola Marymount University, Sonoma County Library, and Shakespeare’s Globe Archive. number of emPloyees: Over 100 employees worldwide.

History and brief descriPtion of your comPany/Pub-

lisHing Program: Adam Matthew Digital (AM Digital) is an award-winning publisher of primary source content with 30 years of experience identifying and making accessible primary resource collections from leading archives and libraries around the world. Each year we publish new, relevant primary source collections that span a wide variety of topics ranging from gender and sexuality, literature, art, politics, war, business, popular culture, and more. These curated collections are offered to academic institutions on a customized platform designed to maximize discoverability and drive usage to primary source content to enhance learning. Over time, AM Digital has become a gold standard in our industry for the quality of our resources and for technological advancements. With a keen focus on progress, we have been continuously refining and improving the means by which we deliver primary source content to end users. Members of our Academic Outreach and Project Development team regularly work with an academic institution’s library staff and faculty to reflect on AM Digital collections in new ways as part of digital humanities projects. More recently, we partnered with a third-party firm to pioneer the use of Artificial Intelligence and apply Handwritten Text Recognition software to manuscript documents in AM Digital’s primary resource collections. This resulted in a noteworthy leap forward in usage of and access to important handwritten manuscript documents. Following suit, in 2018, we released the Quartex digital collections platform to provide repositories with an advanced, hosted solution for showcasing and publishing their own digital collections and exhibits. AM Digital is an independent company within the SAGE Publishing Group, based in the United Kingdom and has offices around the world.

LYRASIS

1438 W. Peachtree Street NW, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30309 Phone: (800) 999-8558 Fax: (404) 892-7879 www.lyrasis.org

officers: Robert Miller, CEO. Celeste Feather, Senior Director, Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives. key Products and services: Open Access and Scholarly Infrastructure: national outreach and support for initiatives and program such as SCOAP3 and ORCiD US. eResources: negotiated leverage through nation-wide community building. LYRASIS Learning: unlimited classes, one price. Digitization & Preservation: vetted vendors, member discounts, consulting expertise. Open source software: hosting, development, support and leader. core markets/clientele: Libraries, Archives and Museums. number of emPloyees: 70 member requirements, etc.: In order to become a LYRASIS member, an organization must disclose their Carnegie classification and pay membership dues.

History and brief descriPtion of your comPany/Pub-

lisHing Program: LYRASIS is one of the nation’s largest non-profit technology and services organizations serving galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAMs) and other cultural heritage organizations in the U.S. and worldwide. LYRASIS serves knowledge communities and collections-holding organizations through content licensing, management and access, technologies, open source software solutions, leadership opportunities, collaboration, and programs designed to foster and develop innovative ideas for GLAMs. LYRASIS serves our members and more by building communities and solving the problems of today with the solutions of tomorrow.

Back Talk

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Libraries? Well, we have a real opportunity. We’ve been analog-with-digital-supplement for thirty years+ and we’ve gotten good at it. It’s time to make sure that everything we do can be done digitally, instantly, globally, and open as far as humanly possible to all. The pioneer of digital humanities for ancient Greek studies, Greg Crane, long ago said in a talk, “If it’s not on the net, it’s not information.” OK, true enough: now a challenge. In other venues I’ve opined that whatever happens with the pioneering work of the Internet Archive in controlled digital lending and the ankle-biting lawsuit they’re facing, Brewster Kahle is on to something essential: all information has to be digital and it all has to be available to everybody. I’ve been cribbing the old Latin motto from Harrod’s — carved in stone high above Knightsbridge over 100 years ago — in these conversations for the last several years: omnia omnibus ubique. “Everything for everybody everywhere.” It was a pushy idea then and it’s still a pushy idea.

It’s the idea librarians should wake up with every morning, in this new space, post-pandemic, post whatever chaotic transitions of this fall, in a world where the digital finally becomes central, normal, and natural. A hundred years from now, nobody will say they live in the digital age any more than we now say we live in the automotive age or the electrical age. Maybe we’ll get to that point a little sooner than a hundred years: because the future is now.