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Dear Delegate,

Welcome to the Thirteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries.

The concerns of this conference center on the future of the book in rapidly changing times. In the context of today’s developments in information technologies, the book is indeed an old medium of expression. Do the new media (the Internet, multimedia texts, and new delivery formats) represent a threat or an opportunity? What is the book’s future as a creature of and conduit for human creativity? These are the key questions that will be addressed at the 2015 International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries. This conference will address the provocative suggestion that, rather than being eclipsed by the new media, the book will thrive as an artifact. More than this, the information architecture of the book, embodying as it does thousands of years’ experience with recorded knowledge, may well prove critical to the success of the new media.

In the next iteration of this rapidly evolving community, we are pleased to announce the expansion of the Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community into Common Ground’s New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community. This innovative merger provides community members with an extended academic network and greater interdisciplinary interaction, as well as opportunities to publish within the New Direction in the Humanities Collection. We encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal collection. We also publish books in both print and electronic formats. We would like to invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme.

Thank you to all who have put such a phenomenal amount of work into preparing for the conference. A personal thank you goes to our Common Ground colleagues who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference: Monica Hillison and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish.

We wish you all the best for this conference and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the world.

Yours sincerely,

Homer (Tony) Stavely, PhDHost, Common Ground Publishing, USA

Our Mission Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media.

Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces in which differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.

Our Media Common Ground creates and supports knowledge communities through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics, practitioners, and community leaders from the host community). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book imprint offer fully-refereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission, peer review, and production. The knowledge community also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our YouTube channel, monthly email newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground’s own software, Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and disseminating text and multi-media works.

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Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community

Analyzing the past, present, and future of books and publishing

Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community

The Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community is brought together by common interest in the past, present, and future of books and publishing. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationships, a family of peer reviewed journals, and book imprint–exploring the affordances of the new digital media.

ConferenceThe conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.

PublishingThe Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community enables members to publish through two media. First, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The International Journal of the Book provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book imprint, Books, Publishing & Libraries, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome.

CommunityWe are pleased to announce the expansion of the Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community into Common Ground’s New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community. This innovative merger provides community members with an extended academic network and greater interdisciplinary interaction, as well as opportunities to publish within the New Directions in the Humanities Collection. The New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Members may also join the conversations on Facebook and Twitter or explore our new social media platform, Scholar.

Books, Publishing & Libraries Themes

Theme 1: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future• Considering the changing roles of publishers, editors, and designers, as well as changes in the

workflow from author to reader• Examining issues and concerns of specialty publishing (trades; scientific, technical, medical;

university presses)• Typography and typesetting: past, present, and future• The printed book: from letterpress to print-on-demand• Roles of authors, editors, publishers, designers• Bookstores: past, present, and future• e-Book readers and mobile devices• Computer-mediated writing processes• Open source, open access, self-publishing, as well as “specialized” forms of publishing• Multilingual publishing: Unicode, machine translation, and other tools of the global publishing

trade• Multimodal texts: books with animation, video, audio, or dataset• Marketing and distribution of books, e-books, journals, textbooks

Theme 2: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning• Redefining literacy and exploring new strategies for literacy education• From reader to ‘user’: interactivity and navigation in books• Creative writing: so what’s creativity, and how is it taught?• Writing for children in an era of competing pleasures• Learning to read and write• Distance learning: old challenges and new opportunities• The textbook as a medium of instruction: past, present, and future• Multiliteracies: multimedia and multimodal texts in learning environments• Literary critiques and analyses

Theme 3: Books and Libraries• Consideration of the form, structure, and processes of libraries, archives, multi-media resources• The changing role of the library• Librarians’ work today• e-Books in libraries• Metadata and resource discovery• Indexing and cataloguing in the electronic age• Manuscripts, rare books, and archival practices

On the changing processes of textual production and distribution from past to present, and the impacts of digitization, the internet, and e-book readers on the future of publishing

Reading and writing and changes in these processes over time

On the book as an object and artifact the changing role of the book

Books, Publishing & Libraries 2015 Special Focus

The Event of the Book

The 2015 Book Conference coincides with the Vancouver Writer’s Festival. As the social worlds of the book are being evermore mediated by digital modes of production and distribution, how do we make sense of ‘The Event of the Book’? At a micro level, the event of the book is the experience of holding a material object. At the macro level, the event of the book is the experience of person-to-person events such as writers’ festivals. How might the digital re-energize—‘materialize’—the event of the book? How can the affordances of digital technologies re-configure how we understand the media and social practices of the event of the book at micro and macro levels?

The 2015 meeting will feature a special focus on this thought-provoking subject. We welcome open debate, discourse, and research from participants that center on this special topic, as well as any other themes or issues relevant to books, publishing, and libraries.

Books, Publishing & Libraries Scope and Concerns

AccessAs well as the conventional printed book (and there is little doubt that people will always be taking that old printed and bound artefact to the beach or to bed, for the foreseeable future at least), the same text may also be available in a range of alternative media. It is available on computer screen or printed to paper on the spot, as there is hardly a computer without a printer. It is read on an ebook reading devices. It can be rendered to audio via speech synthesis. And soon, it could find itself coming to life through new electronic media currently in development, such as the paper-like plastic substrates that can be read from reflected light. The result is greater and easier access to books and new markets: the student who needs to have a chapter of a book tonight for an assignment due in tomorrow; the person who is visually impaired and wants the voice synthesised version, or another person who wants to listen to the text while driving their car; the traveller who instantly needs just one piece of information from a travel guide and for whom a small piece of text on their mobile phone, about a particular monument or the nearby restaurant, is sufficient; or the teacher who wants to use some textual material as a ‘learning object’ in an electronic learning environment. Will the definition of the book be adapted and extended, or will these become new textual forms?

DiversityThe traditional book business ran on economies of scale. There was a magic number, often considered to be somewhere around the 3000 mark, that made a book viable—worth the trouble to write, print, and distribute. Of course, the longer the print run, the better, at least according to the underlying logic of mass production. Costs reduced the longer the run, and access was at the cost of diversity. Mass production made for mass culture. Supporting this was a cumbersome infrastructure of slow moving inventory, large scale warehousing, expensive distribution systems, and heavily stocked retail outlets—bad business in many troubling respects, and providing little return for anyone who made books their livelihood, least of all authors.

Today electronic reading devices that change the economies of manufacturing scale. Variable digital print does the same thing. One thousand different books can be printed in one run, and this entails no more cost than printing one thousand copies of the same book. Small communities with niche markets now play on the same field as large communities with mass markets. Compact book printing machines can be located in schools, in libraries, and in bookstores, all of which will now be able to ‘stock’ any or even every book in the world.

DemocracyThese developments favour small communities of interest and practice. They lower the entry point to the world of publishing. Now museums, research centres, libraries, professional associations, and schools might all become publishers. They’ll be more than happy if a title sells a few hundred copies, or is perhaps provided to the world for free—options that were not previously feasible. As for quality, publishing decisions will be made by communities who feel deeply for their content interests and domain of expertise. It has never been the case that quantity, the traditional mass market measure of success, equates with quality. This equation will prove even less tenable in the future.

Thousands of publishers and millions of new titles need not add up to information overload. There is already more than any one person can digest, yet we manage to find ways to locate what suits our particular needs and interests. The result of expanded publishing opportunities can only be good—a more healthy democracy, a place of genuine diversity. Digital print also provides a means to cross the digital divide. If you can’t afford a computer for every person in a readership (a school in a developing country, for instance, or a new literature in a small, historically oral language), proximity to computers and digital print will still allow cheap printed materials to be produced locally. There is no need to buy someone else’s language and

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culture to fill a local knowledge gap. This could be a world where small languages and cultures flourish, and even, as machine translation improves, find that smallness does not mean isolation.

So what is the book’s future, as a creature of and conduit for human invention? The digital media represent an opportunity for the book more than a threat.

For that matter, on closer examination, what’s supposed to be new in the digital media is perhaps not so new at all. Hypertext’s contribution is mechanical: it automates the information apparatuses that the printed book managed by page numbering, contents pages, indexing, citation, and bibliography. And as for the virtual, what more did the written word and the printed image do than refer, often with striking verisimilitude, to things that are not immediately present. Indeed, the information architecture of the book, embodying as it does thousands of years’ experience with recorded knowledge, provides a solid grounding for every adventure we might take in the new world of digital media.

These are just a few of the principal concerns of the Books, Publishing & Libraries Conference, The International Journal of the Book, and the Books, Publishing & Libraries book imprint, and news blog. They provide a forum for participants in the book publishing industry, librarians, researchers, and educators to discuss the book—its past, present, and future. Discussions range from the reflective (history, theory, and reporting on research) to the highly practical (examining technologies, business models, and new practices of writing, publishing, and reading).

Books, Publishing & Libraries Community Membership

AboutThe Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, the Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community brings an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice, policy, and teaching.

Membership BenefitsAs a Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community member you have access to a broad range of tools and resources to use in your own work:

• Digital subscription to The International Journal of the Book for one year.• Digital subscription to the book imprint for one year.• One article publication per year (pending peer review).• Participation as a reviewer in the peer review process, with the opportunity to be listed as an Associate Editor after

reviewing three or more articles.• Subscription to the community e-newsletter, providing access to news and announcements for and from the knowledge

community.• Option to add a video presentation to the community YouTube channel.• Free access to the Scholar social knowledge platform, including:

◊ Personal profile and publication portfolio page◊ Ability to interact and form communities with peers away from the clutter and commercialism of other social media◊ Optional feeds to Facebook and Twitter◊ Complimentary use of Scholar in your classes—for class interactions in its Community space, multimodal student

writing in its Creator space, and managing student peer review, assessment, and sharing of published work.

Books, Publishing & Libraries Engage in the Community

Present and Participate in the ConferenceYou have already begun your engagement in the community by attending the conference, presenting your work, and interacting face-to-face with other members. We hope this experience provides a valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and collaborative projects, as well as the start of a conversation with community colleagues that will continue well into the future.

Publish Journal Articles or Books We encourage you to submit an article for review and possible publication in the journal. In this way, you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of the community. As a member of the community, you will also be invited to review others’ work and contribute to the development of the community knowledge base as an Associate Editor. As part of your active membership in the community, you also have online access to the complete works (current and previous volumes) of the journal and to the book imprint. We also invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the book imprint.

Engage through Social Media There are several ways to connect and network with community colleagues:

Email Newsletters: Published monthly, these contain information on the conference and publishing, along with news of interest to the community. Contribute news or links with a subject line ‘Email Newsletter Suggestion’ to [email protected].

Scholar: Common Ground’s path-breaking platform that connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works.

Facebook: Comment on current news, view photos from the conference, and take advantage of special benefits for community members at: http://www.facebook.com /BooksAndPublishing.CG.

Twitter: Follow the community @booksandpublish and talk about the conference with #CGBook.

YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at http:/ /commongroundpublishing.com/support/uploading-your-presentation-to-youtube.

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Books, Publishing & Libraries Advisory Board

The principal role of the Advisory Board is to drive the overall intellectual direction of the Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community and to consult on our foundational themes as they evolve along with the currents of the community. Board members are invited to attend the annual conference with a complimentary registration and provide important insights on conference development, including suggestions for speakers, venues, and special themes. We also encourage board members to submit articles for publication consideration to The International Journal of the Book as well as proposals or completed manuscripts to the Books, Publishing & Libraries book imprint.

We are grateful for the continued service and support of these world-class scholars and practitioners.

• Florentina Armaselu, University of Montreal, Centre for Research on Intermediality (CRI), Montreal, Canada• Rafael Ball, University Library Regensburg, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany• Sidney Berger, Departments of English and Communications, Simmons College, Boston, USA• Paul Callister, Leon E. Bloch Law Library, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, USA• Bill Carman, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada• David Emblidge, Emerson College, Boston, USA• Jason Epstein, 3 Billion Books, New York, USA• Kevin Grace, Archives & Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA• DeWitt Henry, Emerson College, Boston, USA• Michael Jon Jensen, National Academies Press, Washington D.C., USA• John Man, London, UK• Karim Gherab Martín, Bibliotecas Digitales, Madrid, Spain• Rogelio Blanco Martínez, Book, Archives and Libraries of Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Spain• Bozena Mierzejewska, Fordham University, New York City, USA• Mónica Fernández Muñoz, Promotion of Books, Reading and Spanish Literatura of Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Spain• Sarah Pedersen, The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Abderdeen, UK• Michael Peters, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA• Angus Phillips, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK• Agnes Ponsati, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain• Alfred Rolington, Jane’s Information Group, Oxford, UK• Colin Steele, Scholarly Information Strategies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia• John W. Warren, George Mason University, Washington D.C., USA• John Willinsky, Stanford University, Stanford, USA• Margaret Zeegers, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia

A Social Knowledge PlatformCreate Your Academic Profile and Connect to Peers

Developed by our brilliant Common Ground software team, Scholar connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works.

Utilize Your Free Scholar Membership Today through• Building your academic profile and list of published works.• Joining a community with a thematic or disciplinary focus.• Establishing a new knowledge community relevant to your field.• Creating new academic work in our innovative publishing space.• Building a peer review network around your work or courses.

Scholar Quick Start Guide1. Navigate to http://cgscholar.com. Select [Sign Up] below ‘Create an Account’.2. Enter a “blip” (a very brief one-sentence description of yourself).3. Click on the “Find and join communities” link located under the YOUR COMMUNITIES heading (On the left hand

navigation bar).4. Search for a community to join or create your own.

Scholar Next Steps – Build Your Academic Profile• About: Include information about yourself, including a linked CV in the top, dark blue bar.• Interests: Create searchable information so others with similar interests can locate you.• Peers: Invite others to connect as a peer and keep up with their work.• Shares: Make your page a comprehensive portfolio of your work by adding publications in the Shares area - be these

full text copies of works in cases where you have permission, or a link to a bookstore, library or publisher listing. If you choose Common Ground’s hybrid open access option, you may post the final version of your work here, available to anyone on the web if you select the ‘make my site public’ option.

• Image: Add a photograph of yourself to this page; hover over the avatar and click the pencil/edit icon to select.• Publisher: All Common Ground community members have free access to our peer review space for their courses. Here

they can arrange for students to write multimodal essays or reports in the Creator space (including image, video, audio, dataset or any other file), manage student peer review, co-ordinate assessments, and share students’ works by publishing them to the Community space.

A Digital Learning PlatformUse Scholar to Support Your Teaching

Scholar is a social knowledge platform that transforms the patterns of interaction in learning by putting students first, positioning them as knowledge producers instead of passive knowledge consumers. Scholar provides scaffolding to encourage making and sharing knowledge drawing from multiple sources rather than memorizing knowledge that has been presented to them.

Scholar also answers one of the most fundamental questions students and instructors have of their performance, “How am I doing?” Typical modes of assessment often answer this question either too late to matter or in a way that is not clear or comprehensive enough to meaningfully contribute to better performance.

A collaborative research and development project between Common Ground and the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Scholar contains a knowledge community space, a multimedia web writing space, a formative assessment environment that facilitates peer review, and a dashboard with aggregated machine and human formative and summative writing assessment data.

The following Scholar features are only available to Common Ground Knowledge Community members as part of their membership. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like the complimentary educator account that comes with participation in a Common Ground conference.

• Create projects for groups of students, involving draft, peer review, revision, and publication.• Publish student works to each student’s personal portfolio space, accessible through the web for class discussion.• Create and distribute surveys.• Evaluate student work using a variety of measures in the assessment dashboard.

Scholar is a generation beyond learning management systems. It is what we term a Digital Learning Platform—it transforms learning by engaging students in powerfully horizontal “social knowledge” relationships. For more information, visit: http://knowledge.cgscholar.com.

Books, Publishing & Libraries Journal

Provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the past, present, and future of books and publishing

New Directions in the Humanities Collection of Journals

AboutWe are pleased to announce the expansion of the Books, Publishing & Libraries Knowledge Community into Common Ground’s New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community. This innovative merger provides community members with an extended academic network and greater interdisciplinary interaction, as well as opportunities to publish within the New Direction in the Humanities Collection.

Discussions in the New Directions in the Humanities Collection range from the broad and speculative to the microcosmic and empirical. Their over-riding concern, however, is to redefine our understandings of the human and mount a case for the disciplinary practices of the humanities. At a time when the dominant rationalisms are running a course that often seem to draw humanity towards less than satisfactory ends, these journals reopen the question of the human—for highly pragmatic as well as redemptory reasons.

The New Directions in the Humanities Collection is relevant for academics across the whole range of humanities disciplines, research students, educators—school, university, and further education—anyone with an interest in, and concern for the humanities.

All the journals in the New Directions in the Humanities Collection are peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published.

Collection Editor

Asun Lopez-Varela, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Associate EditorsArticles published in the New Direction in the Humanities Collection are peer reviewed by scholars who are active members of the New Direction in the Humanities Knowledge Community. Reviewers may be past or present conference delegates, fellow submitters to the collection, or scholars who have volunteered to review papers (and have been screened by Common Ground’s editorial team). This engagement with the knowledge community, as well as Common Ground’s synergistic and criterion-based evaluation system, distinguishes the peer review process from journals that have a more top-down approach to refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise. In recognition of the valuable feedback and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers are acknowledged as Associate Editors in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus, in addition to the New Direction in the Humanities Collection’s Editors and Advisory Board, the Associate Editors contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the collection.

IndexingCommunication SourceHumanities International CompleteHumanities International IndexHumanities SourcePolitical Science CompleteScopusThe Australian Research Council (ERA)Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory

Founded: 2003

Publication Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, September, December)

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New Directions in the Humanities Collection Titles

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual ReviewISSN: 1447-9508 (print) | 1447-9559 (online)Indexing: Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, Humanities Source, Humanities Source International, Scopus, The Australian Research Council (ERA), Ulrich’s Periodicals DirectoryAbout: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review provides a space for dialogue and publication of new knowledge that builds on the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future.

The International Journal of Humanities EducationISSN: 2327-0063 (print) | 2327-2457 (online)Indexing: Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals DirectoryAbout: The International Journal of Humanities Education explores teaching and learning in and through the humanities encompassing a broad domain of educational practice, including literature, language, social studies and the arts.

The International Journal of Literary HumanitiesISSN: 2327-7912 (print) | 2327-8676 (online)Indexing: Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals DirectoryAbout: The International Journal of Literary Humanities analyzes and interprets literatures and literacy practices, seeking to unsettle received expressive forms and conventional interpretations.

The International Journal of Critical Cultural StudiesISSN: 2327-0055 (print) | 2327-2376 (online)Indexing: Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals DirectoryAbout: The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies critically examines the social, political and ideological conditions of cultural production and offers a wide canvas for the examination of media, identities, politics, and cultural expression.

New Directions in the Humanities Collection Titles

The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic StudiesISSN: 2327-7882 (print) | 2327-8617 (online)Indexing: Communication Source, Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies critically examines the exchange of human meaning, from the processes of representation or symbolic sense-making grounded in human cognition, outward manifestations of communication, and the dynamics of interpretation.

The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community StudiesISSN: 2327-0047 (print) | 2327-2155 (online)Indexing: Political Science Complete, Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals DirectoryAbout: The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies invites theoretical work and case studies documenting socially-engaged civic, political, and community practices.

The International Journal of the BookISSN: 1447-9516 (Print)Indexing: Genamics Journal Seek, Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, Humanities Source, Literary Reference Center Plus, Modern Language Association, Scopus, The Australian Research Council (ERA), Ulrich’s Periodicals DirectoryAbout: The International Journal of the Book provides a forum for publishing professionals, librarians, researchers and educators to discuss that iconic artefact, the book—and to consider its past, present and future.

Books, Publishing & Libraries

Journal Submission Process and Timeline Below, please find step-by-step instructions on the journal article submission process:

1. Submit a conference presentation proposal.

2. Once your conference presentation proposal has been accepted, you may submit your article by clicking the “Add a Paper” button on the right side of your proposal page. You may upload your article anytime between the first and the final submission deadlines. (See dates below)

3. Once your article is received, it is verified against template and submission requirements. If your article satisfies these requirements, your identity and contact details are then removed, and the article is matched to two appropriate referees and sent for review. You can view the status of your article at any time by logging into your CGPublisher account at www.CGPublisher.com.

4. When both referee reports are uploaded, and after the referees’ identities have been removed, you will be notified by email and provided with a link to view the reports.

5. If your article has been accepted, you will be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit a final copy of your article. If your paper is accepted with revisions, you will be required to submit a change note with your final submission, explaining how you revised your article in light of the referees’ comments. If your article is rejected, you may resubmit it once, with a detailed change note, for review by new referees.

6. Once we have received the final submission of your article, which was accepted or accepted with revisions, our Publishing Department will give your article a final review. This final review will verify that you have complied with the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition), and will check any edits you have made while considering the feedback of your referees. After this review has been satisfactorily completed, your paper will be typeset and a proof will be sent to you for approval before publication.

7. Individual articles may be published “Web First” with a full citation. Full issues follow at regular, quarterly intervals. All issues are published 4 times per volume (except the annual review, which is published once per volume).

Submission TimelineYou may submit your article for publication to the journal at any time throughout the year. The rolling submission deadlines are as follows:

• Submission Round 1 – 15 January• Submission Round 2 – 15 April• Submission Round 3 – 15 July• Submission Round 4 (final) – 15 October

Note: If your article is submitted after the final deadline for the volume, it will be considered for the following year’s volume. The sooner you submit, the sooner your article will begin the peer review process. Also, because we publish “Web First,” early submission means that your article may be published with a full citation as soon as it is ready, even if that is before the full issue is published.

Submission Process

Books, Publishing & Libraries Common Ground Open

Hybrid Open Access All Common Ground Journals are Hybrid Open Access. Hybrid Open Access is an option increasingly offered by both university presses and well-known commercial publishers.

Hybrid Open Access means some articles are available only to subscribers, while others are made available at no charge to anyone searching the web. Authors pay an additional fee for the open access option. Authors may do this because open access is a requirement of their research-funding agency, or they may do this so non-subscribers can access their article for free.

Common Ground’s open access charge is $250 per article –a very reasonable price compared to our hybrid open access competitors and purely open access journals resourced with an author publication fee. Digital articles are normally only available through individual or institutional subscriptions or for purchase at $5 per article. However, if you choose to make your article Open Access, this means anyone on the web may download it for free.

Paying subscribers still receive considerable benefits with access to all articles in the journal, from both current and past volumes, without any restrictions. However, making your paper available at no charge through Open Access increases its visibility, accessibility, potential readership, and citation counts. Open Access articles also generate higher citation counts.

Institutional Open Access Common Ground is proud to announce an exciting new model of scholarly publishing called Institutional Open Access.

Institutional Open Access allows faculty and graduate students to submit articles to Common Ground journals for unrestricted open access publication. These articles will be freely and publicly available to the whole world through our hybrid open access infrastructure. With Institutional Open Access, instead of the author paying a per-article open access fee, institutions pay a set annual fee that entitles their students and faculty to publish a given number of open access articles each year.

The rights to the articles remain with the subscribing institution. Both the author and the institution can also share the final typeset version of the article in any place they wish, including institutional repositories, personal websites, and privately or publicly accessible course materials. We support the highest Sherpa/Romeo access level—Green.

For more information on how to make your article Open Access, or information on Institutional Open Access, please contact us at [email protected].


Community Membership and Personal SubscriptionsAs part of each conference registration, all conference participants (both virtual and in-person) have a one-year digital subscription to The International Journal of the Book. This complimentary personal subscription grants access to the current volume as well as the entire backlist. The period of complimentary access begins at the time of registration and ends one year after the close of the conference. After that time, delegates may purchase a personal subscription.

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Books, Publishing & Libraries Book Imprint

Aiming to set new standards in participatory knowledge creation and scholarly publication


Call for BooksCommon Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:• Individually and jointly authored books• Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme• Collections of articles published in our journals• Out-of-copyright books, including important books that have gone out of print and classics with new introductions

Book Proposal Guidelines Books should be between 30,000 and 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats and are available through Amazon and as Kindle editions. To publish a book, please send us a proposal including:

• Title• Author(s)/editor(s)• Draft back-cover blurb• Author bio note(s)• Table of contents• Intended audience and significance of contribution• Sample chapters or complete manuscript• Manuscript submission date

Proposals can be submitted by email to [email protected]. Please note the book imprint to which you are submitting in the subject line.


Call for Book Reviewers Common Ground Publishing is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts.

As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The comments and guidance that these reviewers supply is invaluable to our authors and an essential part of the publication process.

Common Ground recognizes the important role of reviewers by acknowledging book reviewers as members of the Editorial Review Board for a period of at least one year. The list of members of the Editorial Review Board will be posted on our website.

If you would like to review book manuscripts, please send an email to [email protected] with:• A brief description of your professional credentials• A list of your areas of interest and expertise• A copy of your CV with current contact details

If we feel that you are qualified and we require refereeing for manuscripts within your purview, we will contact you.

Books, Publishing & Libraries Conference

Curating global interdisciplinary spaces, supporting professionally rewarding relationships

Books, Publishing & Libraries About the Conference

Conference Principles and Features The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the knowledge community:

International This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and locations. But more importantly, the Books, Publishing & Libraries Conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 19 countries are in attendance, offering a unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.

Interdisciplinary Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded, and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.

Inclusive Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher, policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that is created and shared by this community.

Interactive To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured, are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities.


PlenaryPlenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions during their Garden Sessions.

Garden ConversationGarden Conversations are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.

Talking CirclesHeld on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation. When possible, a second Talking Circle is held on the final day of the conference, for the original group to reconvene and discuss changes in their perspectives and understandings as a result of the conference experience. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions during the Closing Session.

Themed Paper PresentationsPaper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twenty-minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each presenter’s formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.

ColloquiumColloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by commentary and/or group discussion. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session.

Ways of Speaking


Focused Discussion For work that is best discussed or debated, rather than reported on through a formal presentation, these sessions provide a forum for an extended “roundtable” conversation between an author and a small group of interested colleagues. Several such discussions occur simultaneously in a specified area, with each author’s table designated by a number corresponding to the title and topic listed in the program schedule. Summaries of the author’s key ideas, or points of discussion, are used to stimulate and guide the discourse. A single article, based on the scholarly work and informed by the focused discussion as appropriate, may be submitted to the journal.

Workshop/ Interactive SessionWorkshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate—all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.

Poster SessionsPoster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates throughout the session.

Ways of Speaking

Books, Publishing & Libraries Daily Schedule

Special EventConference Welcome ReceptionMonday, 19 OctoberDescription: Common Ground Publishing, and the Books, Publishing & Libraries Conference and will be hosting a Reception on 19 October following the last session of the day. All delegates are welcome to attend and enjoy complimentary refreshments. This is an excellent opportunity to network and get to know your fellow delegates.

Monday, 19 October

8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open

9:00–9:25 Conference Opening and Host Comments

9:30–10:10 Break & Garden Conversation

10:10–11:10 Talking Circles

11:10–11:20 Transition Break

11:20–12:35 Parallel Sessions

12:35–13:30 Lunch


14:45–15:00 Coffee Break


16:40–17:40 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 20 October

9:00–9:30 Conference Registration Desk Open

9:30–9:40 Daily Update—Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA

9:40–10:10 Plenary Session—John Frohnmayer, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

10:15–10:45 Break & Garden Conversation


12:00–12:50 Lunch

12:50–13:35 Parallel Sessions—Workshops

13:35–13:45 Transition Break


15:00–15:15 Coffee Break


16:30–17:00 Special Event: Closing and Award Ceremony

Books, Publishing & Libraries Plenary Speakers

John FrohnmayerEmotional Dimension of a Machine: How the Book Will Shape Technology

John Frohnmayer’s views on freedom of speech first gained national attention in the United States when, as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (1989-92), he was embroiled in the contentious debate over censorship, obscenity, and federal funding of the arts. He received People for the American Way’s First Amendment Award in 1992 and the Montana Library Association’s Freedom of Expression Award in 1997. He

was also fired by the first President Bush. Author of Leaving Town Alive (Houghton Mifflin, 1993); Out of Tune: Listening to the First Amendment (North American Press, 1995) and the award winning musical comedy SPIN! (2008), John was a weekly commentator on Public Radio 2009-2010. In addition, he has chaired both the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Humanities, the Oregon affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. With degrees from Stanford (BA American History, 1964), University of Chicago (MA Christian Ethics, 1969), and University of Oregon (J.D. 1972), Frohnmayer is a frequent speaker on issues of constitutional law, ethics, and leadership. He is a competitive rower and is currently writing a book on rowing and philosophy.

Brad KingThe Book on Process

Brad King is an assistant professor in Ball State University’s Department of Journalism, and the co-director of the Center for Emerging Media Design & Development. Along with teaching, King runs The Geeky Press, a writing and publishing collective. He hosts a quarterly storytelling series called The Downtown Writers Jam and a companion podcast that features one-on-one interviews with Midwestern writers. He also runs The Invictus

Writers, a project in which selected students work for a year on long-form memoir essays that are then published by The Geeky Press. He earned his Masters in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000, and worked for Wired magazine, Wired.com, and MIT’s Technology Review as a reporter, editor, and senior producer. He’s the co-author of one book, Dungeons & Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Became a Global Culture (ETC Press, 2014), and he’s working on two others, So Far Appalachia: A memoir of American Mythology and The Summer of Run, both due out in 2015.

Books, Publishing & Libraries Graduate Scholar Awardees

Jeroen DeraJeroen Dera is a lecturer and PhD Candidate in Dutch Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In the first half of 2015, he also worked at Stellenbosch University as a visiting scholar. His research concerns the influence of non-print media on book reviewing practices in the 20th and 21st centuries. Dera published several peer-reviewed articles on this topic in both national (e.g. Spiegel der Letteren) and

international journals (e.g. The Communication Review). He also writes extensively about contemporary Dutch poetry and is an editor of the Flemish literary journal Dietsche Warande & Belfort. Furthermore, he is a board member of the Jan Campert Stichting, awarding annual literary prizes to Dutch and Flemish authors.

Denise Rose HansenDenise Rose Hansen is an MA English Studies Student at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a BA First Honours in Creative Writing with English Literature from the University of Westminster, UK. Denise has interned in the Australian publishing industry at Writers Victoria, Illura Press, and The Lifted Brow. She has worked as a translator and editor in London, as a music journalist and teacher in Paris, and as a translator,

English content writer and web editor at Metropolitan University College and the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. She currently works part-time at Golden Days, a Copenhagen-based cultural organisation, as a writer and editor. In January 2016 she will commence her thesis on the Scottish writer Ali Smith.

Jen LiJen Li is a geographer and researcher from Sydney, Australia who is currently completing a PhD on public libraries and library spaces. She completed a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Sydney in 2008 with majors in geography, marketing, and management. Her honors dissertation was on independent bookshops in Sydney and how they had been affected by rationalization and consolidation in book retailing. Clearly, her

research has a common theme. In the years between her undergraduate degree and undertaking the PhD, Li has worked as a research project officer at the University of Western Sydney, a research assistant at the University of Southampton, a researcher on various festival projects, and a tutor in geography. Since she began researching libraries, Li has decided that when she grows up, she wants to be a librarian.

Alexandra NewmanAlexandra Newman recently completed an MSc in book history at the University of Edinburgh and has started another MSc in information management at the University of Glasgow. Before starting her collection of Scottish Master’s Degrees, Alexandra completed her BA in linguistics at the University of Kansas. While at Edinburgh, she has facilitated several workshops and colloquia about medieval illuminated manuscripts. She earned an ABA

Scholarship to attend the London Rare Book School, and completed courses in the medieval book and provenance in books. Newman works part-time in an Edinburgh antiquarian bookshop and enjoys spending most of her paychecks on shop merchandise.

8:00-9:00 REGISTRAREGISTRATION DESK OPENTION DESK OPEN

9:00-9:25 CONFERENCE OPENING AND HOST COMMENTSCONFERENCE OPENING AND HOST COMMENTS

Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA9:30-10:10 BREAK & GARDEN CONVERSABREAK & GARDEN CONVERSATIONTION

10:10-11:10 TTALKING CIRCLESALKING CIRCLES

Room 1: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and FutureRoom 2: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and LearningRoom 3: Books and LibrariesRoom 4: The Event of the Book (conference special focus)

11:10-11:20 TRANSITION BREAKTRANSITION BREAK

11:20-12:35 PPARALLEL SESSIONSARALLEL SESSIONS

Room 1Room 1 The Event of the Book: Materializing the BookThe Event of the Book: Materializing the BookNegotiating the ArNegotiating the Archive: Redefining the Event of the Book thrchive: Redefining the Event of the Book through Collaborative Engagementough Collaborative EngagementDr. Christa Albrecht-Crane, Department of English, Utah Valley University, Orem, USAAnna-Lise Smith, Utah Valley University Library, Utah Valley University, Orem, USAOverview: This collaborative paper (by a writing teacher and a research librarian) argues for a complimentary and creative pedagogical approach toinstructing undergraduate students in reading, writing, and performing library research.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

VVisual Editions: Materiality and Substanceisual Editions: Materiality and SubstanceDenise Rose Hansen, Department of English, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkOverview: This paper is a phenomenological and post-digital investigation into the materiality of two novels published by London-based Visual Editions.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Changing Reading Skills for Changing Books: How Digital Literacy Helps Readers Make Sense of Multimodal Print FictionChanging Reading Skills for Changing Books: How Digital Literacy Helps Readers Make Sense of Multimodal Print FictionDaniel Dale, English Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USAOverview: In my paper, I show how digital literacy skills are used by readers to make sense of non-linear, multimodal print fiction.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Room 2Room 2 Libraries: FuturLibraries: Future Dire DirectionsectionsThe Library as a Hybrid Building: New Forms and Complex PrThe Library as a Hybrid Building: New Forms and Complex ProgramsogramsDr. Charlie Smith, School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UKOverview: Libraries are increasingly becoming hybrid buildings. This paper discusses the impact of this on their role and identity, illustrated throughlibrary projects designed by architecture students.Theme: Books and Libraries

“It’“It’s Not Our Place to Judge”: Reading, Popular Fiction, and the Public Librarys Not Our Place to Judge”: Reading, Popular Fiction, and the Public LibraryJen Li, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaOverview: This paper looks at the processes and influences that produce the public library as a reading space.Theme: Books and Libraries

WWill Printed Books Become a Thing of the Past in Libraries?ill Printed Books Become a Thing of the Past in Libraries?Dr. Vicki L. Gregory, School of Information, University of South Florida, Tampa, USAKiersty Cox, School of Information, University of South Florida, Tampa, USAOverview: This paper examines current practices in collection development in academic libraries in terms of preferences for print versus e-books.Theme: Books and Libraries

Room 3Room 3 Digital Impacts on Libraries, Collections, and PublishingDigital Impacts on Libraries, Collections, and PublishingNew Principles in Publication Design: A Reflection on Formal and Interactive StructurNew Principles in Publication Design: A Reflection on Formal and Interactive Structures in Publication Design for Tes in Publication Design for Tablet Devicesablet DevicesCeleste Martin, Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, CanadaOverview: This paper discusses new paradigms for navigating texts on mobile devices and the emergence of new design principles for essentiallydynamic books and publications.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

Special Collections: ResourSpecial Collections: Resources and Reasoned Responseces and Reasoned ResponseProf. Martha Carothers, Department of Art, University of Delaware, Newark, USAOverview: In our digital world, students are developing a differing sense of process and production. Creative investigation of archives in SpecialCollections fosters responsiveness of how ideas evolve in practice.Theme: Books and Libraries

WWorld Culturorld Cultures in English(es): An Interactive Tes in English(es): An Interactive Tool Prool Promoting Literacy and Social Inclusionomoting Literacy and Social InclusionPedro Estacio, Library Division, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PortugalProf. Alcinda Pinheiro, English Studies Department, Centre for English Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PortugalProf. Teresa Malafaia, English Studies Department, Centre for English Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PortugalMaria Jose Pires, Estoril Higher Institute for Hotel and Tourism Studies, Lisbon, PortugalOverview: World Cultures in English(es) (WCE) is an interactive platform providing access to free educational contents. Multicultural societies need topromote higher levels of literacy and social inclusion.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

12:35-13:30 LUNCHLUNCH

MONDAMONDAYY, 19 OCTOBER, 19 OCTOBER


Room 1Room 1 University Publishing PrUniversity Publishing Programs, Programs, Presses, and Practicesesses, and PracticesPrint on Demand: ResearPrint on Demand: Research Opportunities for Undergraduates and Resourch Opportunities for Undergraduates and Resources for Instructorsces for InstructorsDr. Stephen Nimis, Humanities and Social Sciences, American University in Cairo, Cairo, EgyptOverview: I report on a project of pursuing print on demand for promoting student research and creating instructional materials for instructors andindependent learners of Greek and Latin.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

If I WIf I Write This, Write This, Will It “Count?”: The Impact of Performance Measurill It “Count?”: The Impact of Performance Measures on Academic Wes on Academic WritingritingRosamund Winter, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Monash University, AustraliaOverview: This longitudinal, single-case study explores effects of university performance measures on Australian academic publishing. Data from twentyyears show changing publishing patterns for books, journals, reports, and conferences.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

Room 2Room 2 Manuscripts, RarManuscripts, Rare Books, and Are Books, and Archival Practiceschival PracticesIssues in the Rebinding of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Facing the FuturIssues in the Rebinding of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Facing the Future, Conserving the Past, and Cre, Conserving the Past, and Creating Useable Objects foreating Useable Objects forTTodayodayAlexandra Newman, Material Cultures and the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKOverview: Why do institutions make the decisions they do regarding illuminated manuscripts? Though much can be learned from an original binding, fullpreservation isn’t always the best option for the future.Theme: Books and Libraries

The Mayan WThe Mayan Written Written Worord: Historyd: History, Contr, Controversyoversy, and Library Connections, and Library ConnectionsJessica Bower, Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University, Orange, USAOverview: This paper explores the mystery and dispute surrounding remaining fragments of Pre-Columbian Mayan written documents with a discussionof the importance and value of historical documents and facsimiles in libraries.Theme: Books and Libraries

A FortrA Fortress against Intolerance and Ignorance: Uncovering Unknown Collections at the Less against Intolerance and Ignorance: Uncovering Unknown Collections at the Lyndon B. Johnson Pryndon B. Johnson Presidential Library andesidential Library andMuseumMuseumBrian McNerney, Domestic Policy Archivist, Textual Archives, Presidential Libraries, Austin, USAOverview: Presidential libraries are legacy temples housing often untold treasures. The LBJ Presidential Library boasts massive book collections, rareSteinbeckiana, surprising luminary correspondence, and astonishing museum artifacts.Theme: Books and Libraries

Room 3Room 3 WWorkshopsorkshopsThe "Event" of the Library: What Matters Most about Libraries?The "Event" of the Library: What Matters Most about Libraries?Karen Munro, Portland Library and Learning Commons, University of Oregon, Portland, USAOverview: What happens when you take the library out of the library? This workshop explores the “event” of the library, in order to clarify the substanceof the library experience.Theme: Books and Libraries

14:45-15:00 COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK


Room 1Room 1 YYouth Literacy and Book Culturouth Literacy and Book CultureeIntrIntroducing the mBook: A Toducing the mBook: A Twenty-first Century Interprwenty-first Century Interpretation of "Book"etation of "Book"Khyiah Angel, Department of Media, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaOverview: In a context of twenty-first century literacy practices, young adult reading is increasingly occurring in a multi-sensorial context, impacting theway in which YAs engage with the long-form novel.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Supporting RecrSupporting Recreational Book Reading in Adolescents: What Yeational Book Reading in Adolescents: What You Can Doou Can DoDr. Margaret Kristin Merga, Education, Murdoch University, Perth, AustraliaOverview: This paper highlights the benefits of adolescent recreational book reading. Evidence-based recommendations for educators, librarians,parents, and researchers wishing to support recreational book reading are introduced.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Room 3Room 3 WWorkshopsorkshopsPurposeful Reading: Activities Designed to Engage Students and CrPurposeful Reading: Activities Designed to Engage Students and Create an Atmosphereate an Atmosphere of Leare of LearningningAssoc. Prof. Donna Slone-Crumbie, Liberal Arts and Education, Maysville Community and Technical College, Lexington, USAOverview: Workshop attendees will be given ideas for activities that may be used before, during, and after reading to enhance comprehension andincrease enjoyment while creating an environment for learning.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Empowering Student WEmpowering Student Writers thrriters through Invention Strategies: Or How to Returough Invention Strategies: Or How to Return the Fun to Tn the Fun to Teaching Academic Weaching Academic WritingritingProf. Audrey Wick, Humanities Division, Blinn College, Schulenburg, USAOverview: Designed for writing educators at all levels, this workshop focuses on invention and idea-generating strategies that will help students discovertheir voices and choose appropriate topics for classroom assignments.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

16:40-17:40 RECEPTIONRECEPTION

MONDAMONDAYY, 19 OCTOBER, 19 OCTOBER

9:00-9:30 REGISTRAREGISTRATION DESK OPENSTION DESK OPENS

9:30-9:40 DAILDAILY UPDAY UPDATETE

Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA9:40-10:10 PLENARPLENARY SESSIONY SESSION

John Frohnmayer, Oregan State University, Corvallis, USA"Emotional Dimension of a Machine: How the Book Will Shape Technology"

10:15-10:45 BREAK & GARDEN CONVERSABREAK & GARDEN CONVERSATIONTION


Room 1Room 1 The Event of the Book: Person-to-Person EventsThe Event of the Book: Person-to-Person EventsThe Literary TThe Literary Tourism Phenomenon: The Influence of Literaturourism Phenomenon: The Influence of Literature on Te on TourismourismCharlene Herselman, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaOverview: Literary tourism is an extremely popular niche market within the billion-dollar tourism industry. Through the use of case studies, this paperinvestigates the influence of literature on tourism.Theme: 2015 Special Focus: The Event of the Book

The Literary Commonweal: Building Books, Reading, and Libraries into a Sustainable Urban PrThe Literary Commonweal: Building Books, Reading, and Libraries into a Sustainable Urban PresenceesenceKevin Grace, Archives and Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USAOverview: International "City of Literature," a UNESCO cultural resource program, celebrates and promotes books and reading. Beyond thatdesignation, how do other world cities build literature into a viable urban quality?Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Services, Opportunities, and Challenges in Librarians’ WServices, Opportunities, and Challenges in Librarians’ Work Tork Today: The Role of Librarians in Managing Resouroday: The Role of Librarians in Managing Resources and Services in theces and Services in theElectrElectronic Eraonic EraDr. Raj Kumar, Dr. A C Joshi Library, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, IndiaDr. Navjyoti Dhingra, Dr. A C Joshi Library, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, IndiaOverview: This paper is a bird’s eye view of the management of electronic resources and newly introduced services to satisfy the information needs ofthe users in the electronic environment.Theme: Books and Libraries

Room 2Room 2 Publishing FuturPublishing Futures: The Book Industryes: The Book IndustryThe New Bestsellers: Implications of Multimedia Publishing for Bestseller TheoryThe New Bestsellers: Implications of Multimedia Publishing for Bestseller TheoryAmrei Katharina Nensel, English Department, Subdivision English Literatures and Cultures, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, GermanyOverview: The emergence of new formats and outlets for literature has induced the need to revisit the ongoing debate on bestseller theory andterminology to reflect changes in the publishing environment.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

LiteraturLiterature Imprisoned: The Contemporary Book Industry in Spain and the Intere Imprisoned: The Contemporary Book Industry in Spain and the International Sphernational SphereeLuis Villamia, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Language and Literature, Nazarbayev University, Astana, KazakhstanOverview: The incorporation of literary publishing houses in multinational holdings affects the destiny of new literature. This reality facilitates theimposition of a homogeneous cultural model and a linguistic establishment.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

One TOne Title, Title, Two Languages: Investigating the Two Languages: Investigating the Trrends of Publishing Adult Non-fiction Tends of Publishing Adult Non-fiction Titles in English and Afrikaans in South Africa fritles in English and Afrikaans in South Africa fromom2010-20142010-2014Jana Moller, Information Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaSamantha Angelique Buitendach, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology, Department of Publishing Studies, University ofPretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaOverview: This paper investigates the (often simultaneous) release of one title in two languages, English and Afrikaans, by looking at the decision-makingprocess, marketing strategies, translated genres, reception, and sales.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

12:00-12:50 LUNCHLUNCH


Room 1Room 1 WWorkshoporkshopTTake Note and Remember: The Commonplace Bookake Note and Remember: The Commonplace BookDr. Laura Gardner, Department of Fine Arts, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, USADr. Laura Rinaldi Dufresne, Department of Fine Arts, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, USAOverview: Follow in the footsteps of John Locke, Mark Twain, and Susan B. Anthony and make a commonplace book using repurposed materials tomanage your conference data.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Room 2Room 2 WWorkshoporkshopPlanning the Indianapolis Literary Pub Crawl: AdventurPlanning the Indianapolis Literary Pub Crawl: Adventures in Event Coores in Event Coordinating by Tdinating by Two Librarianswo LibrariansHeather Howard, Library and Information Services, Trine University, Angola, USAErin Cataldi, Johnson County Public Library, Franklin, USAOverview: In 2013, two librarians co-founded the Indianapolis Literary Pub Crawl, an annual fundraiser for literacy. Learn how it has grown, what has/hasn’t gone well, and why they keep doing it!Theme: Books and Libraries

TUESDATUESDAYY, 20 OCTOBER, 20 OCTOBER

13:35-13:45 TRANSITIONTRANSITION


Room 1Room 1 The Politics and Challenges of Books and PublishingThe Politics and Challenges of Books and PublishingFrFrom the Bookshelves to the Barricades: The Public Library as First Line of Defense in the Fight for From the Bookshelves to the Barricades: The Public Library as First Line of Defense in the Fight for Free Speechee SpeechKenneth DiMaggio, Humanities, Capital Community College, Hartford, USADr. Carl Antonucci, Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, USAOverview: Since 2001, free speech has been under assault. In several incidents, the public library has proven to be the first line of defense for one of ourmost cherished values.Theme: Books and Libraries

Elitist Echelons: Print Media’Elitist Echelons: Print Media’s Crusade against Online Book Reviewings Crusade against Online Book ReviewingJeroen Dera, Department of Dutch Language and Culture, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NetherlandsOverview: This paper shows how professional book reviewers in Dutch print media create a false sense of superiority by constructing a negative imageof online book reviewing practices.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

Room 2Room 2 The Changing Role of Books and LibrariesThe Changing Role of Books and LibrariesBookLives.ca: ResearBookLives.ca: Researching and Documenting the Book as an Evolving Artifact of Historyching and Documenting the Book as an Evolving Artifact of HistorySarah E. Fisher, Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, CanadaOverview: Researching the connection between the book and its previous owner(s), the UPEI Library is creating a VRE (Virtual Research Environment), aprimary document platform for genealogists and historians.Theme: Books and Libraries

Libraries WherLibraries Where Life Happens: Non-traditional Settings for Public Librariese Life Happens: Non-traditional Settings for Public LibrariesKathryn Elizabeth Boudreau-Henry, Department of Educational Leadership, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, USAOverview: In an attempt to stay relevant, libraries are placed in areas where one does expect to find them.Theme: Books and Libraries

Room 3Room 3 Literary Critiques and AnalysesLiterary Critiques and AnalysesJ. R. R. TJ. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lorolkien's "The Lord of the Rings": Seeing Td of the Rings": Seeing Tolkien's and C. S. Lewis' Friendship throlkien's and C. S. Lewis' Friendship through Characters' Friendshipsough Characters' FriendshipsDr. Charles Bressler, English, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, USAEthan A. Gormong, John Wesley Honors College, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, USAShiloh Sawyer Hines, John Wesley Honors College, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, USAOverview: Using the principles of qualitative research, we will demonstrate how the friendship between Lewis and Tolkien evidences itself in threefriendships in "The Lord of the Rings."Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

15:00-15:15 COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK


Room 1Room 1 Book Publication, Practices, and ImpactsBook Publication, Practices, and ImpactsAn Inquiry into the Continuing Impact of John Ruskin’An Inquiry into the Continuing Impact of John Ruskin’s Nineteenth-century Scholarly Ws Nineteenth-century Scholarly Work, “The Stones of Vork, “The Stones of Venice,” upon Moderenice,” upon Modern Tn Touristsouristsin Vin VeniceeniceAnne Marie Lane, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USAOverview: This paper explores the question of whether the well-known illustrated work about Venice by the Oxford academic John Ruskin still remains ameaningful part of “cultural tourism” there.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

Events in Paradise: Book Publishing in MicrEvents in Paradise: Book Publishing in MicronesiaonesiaDr. Linda Crowl, Business and Social Sciences, Lone Star College, Houston, USAOverview: Book publishing practices in Micronesia reorganized social, economic, and political life and helped to equip remote islanders in the Pacific torecord their own cultures and advocate their own politics.Theme: Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future

Room 2Room 2 Dynamics of Reading, WDynamics of Reading, Writing, and Learriting, and LearningningEducational ThrEducational Threshold in Brazilians’ Reading Habitseshold in Brazilians’ Reading HabitsKaizo Iwakami Beltrao, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMilena Piraccini Duchiade, Rio de Janeiro State Bookseller Association, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilOverview: Data from the Brazilian National Household Budget Survey, conducted in 2008-2009, were used to identify consumers of reading materials(books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) and model probabilities to acquire those items.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

How WHow Writing and Reading Combine to Maintain Prriting and Reading Combine to Maintain Professional Vofessional Vitality: A Pritality: A Professor’ofessor’s Perspectives PerspectiveDr. Yukiko Inoue-Smith, Foundations and Educational Research, University of Guam, Mangilao, GuamOverview: This paper discusses one college professor’s approach to daily practice in reading, reflection, teaching, and writing, to sustain her vitality andproductivity as a member of the academy.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

Adolescents and Long-form Fiction in the Digital AgeAdolescents and Long-form Fiction in the Digital AgeBergthora Jonsdottir, Master of Design, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, CanadaOverview: This study rethinks the digital user-experience of reading for thirteen- to sixteen-year-old students, supporting comprehension and fosteringengagement.Theme: Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning

16:30-17:00 SPECIAL EVENTSPECIAL EVENT: CLOSING AND A: CLOSING AND AWWARD CEREMONYARD CEREMONY

TUESDATUESDAYY, 20 OCTOBER, 20 OCTOBER

Books, Publishing & Libraries List of Participants

Albrecht-Crane Christa Utah Valley University USAAngel Khyiah Macquarie University AustraliaAntonucci Carl Central Connecticut State University USABelokrinicev Brenda Athabasca University CanadaBoudreau-Henry Kathryn Elizabeth Middle Tennessee State University USABower Jessica Chapman University USABressler Charles Indiana Wesleyan University USACarothers Martha University of Delaware USACataldi Erin Johnson County Public Library USACox Kiersty University of South Florida USACrowl Linda Lone Star College USADale Daniel University of Cincinnati USADera Jeroen Radboud University NetherlandsDesmarais Robert University of Alberta CanadaDiMaggio Kenneth Capital Community College USADufresne Laura Rinaldi Winthrop University USAFisher Sarah E. University of Prince Edward Island CanadaFrohnmayer John Independent Scholar USAGardner Laura Winthrop University USAGormong Ethan A. Indiana Wesleyan University USAGrace Kevin University of Cincinnati USAGregory Vicki L. University of South Florida USAHansen Denise Rose University of Copenhagen DenmarkHerselman Charlene University of Pretoria South AfricaHines Shiloh Sawyer Indiana Wesleyan University USAHoward Heather Trine University USAInoue-Smith Yukiko University of Guam GuamIwakami Beltrao Kaizo Getúlio Vargas Foundation BrazilJonsdottir Bergthora Emily Carr University of Art + Design CanadaKuzmina Elena Vancouver Community College Library CanadaLane Anne Marie University of Wyoming USALi Jen University of Western Sydney AustraliaMartin Celeste Emily Carr University of Art + Design CanadaMcNerney Brian National Archives and Records Administration USAMerga Margaret Kristin Murdoch University AustraliaMinkus Kimberly K. Capilano University CanadaMoller Jana University of Pretoria South AfricaMunro Karen University of Oregon USANelson Janine Janine Nelson USANensel Amrei Katharina University of Tübingen GermanyNewman Alexandra University of Edinburgh UKNimis Stephen American University in Cairo EgyptOlukowade Eliezer Olatunji The Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti Nigeria

Books, Publishing & Libraries List of Participants

Pires Maria Jose Universidade de Lisboa PortugalRoth Rhonda Seneca College CanadaSlone-Crumbie Donna Maysville Community & Technical College USASmith Anna-Lise Utah Valley University USASmith Charlie Liverpool John Moores University UKVillamia Luis Nazarbayev University KazakhstanWick Audrey Blinn College USAWinter Rosamund Monash University Australia

Books, Publishing & Libraries Notes

Sixth International Conference on the ImageUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeley, USA | 29–30 October 2015www.ontheimage.com/2015-conference

The Eighth International Conference on e–Learning & Innovative PedagogiesUniversity of California, Santa CruzSanta Cruz, USA | 2–3 November 2015www.ubi–learn.com/the-conference

Aging and Society: Fifth Interdisciplinary ConferenceThe Catholic University of AmericaWashington D.C., USA | 5–6 November 2015www.agingandsociety.com/2015-conference

Twelfth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social SustainabilityPortland State UniversityPortland, USA | 21–23 January 2016www.onsustainability.com/2016-conference

Twelfth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & SocietyUniversidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina | 18–19 February 2016www.techandsoc.com/2016-conference

Tenth International Conference on Design Principles & PracticesPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC–Rio)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 25–27 February 2016www.designprinciplesandpractices.com/2016-conference

Sixth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in SocietyThe Catholic University of AmericaWashington D.C., USA | 22–23 March 2016www.religioninsociety.com/2016-conference

Sixth International Conference on the Constructed EnvironmentThe University of ArizonaTucson, USA | 2–4 April 2016www.constructedenvironment.com/2016-conference

Sixteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture & Change in OrganizationsUniversity of Hawaii at ManoaHonolulu, USA | 19–20 April 2016www.organization-studies.com/2016-conference

Eighth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & ResponsesVNU University of Science (HUS) and Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU)Hanoi, Vietnam | 21-22 April 2016www.on-climate.com/2016-conference

Inaugural International Conference on Tourism & Leisure StudiesUniversity of Hawaii at ManoaHonolulu, USA | 22-23 April 2016www.tourismandleisurestudies.com/2016-conference

Seventh International Conference on Sport & SocietyUniversity of Hawaii at ManoaHonolulu, USA | 2-3 June 2016www.sportandsociety.com/2016-conference

| Conference Calendar 2015-2016

Fourteenth International Conference on New Directions in the HumanitiesUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoChicago, USA | 8-10 June 2016www.thehumanities.com/2016-conference

Ninth Global Studies ConferenceUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos Angeles, USA | 30 June-1 July 2016www.onglobalization.com/2016-conference

Twenty-third International Conference on LearningUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, Canada | 13-15 July 2016www.thelearner.com/2016-conference

Sixteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & NationsThe University of GranadaGranada, Spain | 27-29 July 2016www.ondiversity.com/2016-conference

Eleventh International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social SciencesImperial College LondonLondon, UK | 2-4 August 2016www.thesocialsciences.com/2016-conference

Eleventh International Conference on the Arts in SocietyUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos Angeles, USA | 10-12 August 2016www.artsinsociety.com/2016-conference

Sixth International Conference on the ImageArt and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores UniversityLiverpool, UK | 1-2 September 2016www.ontheimage.com/2016-conference

Inaugural Communication & Media Studies ConferenceUniversity Center ChicagoChicago, USA | 15-16 September, 2016www.oncommunicationmedia.com/2016-conference

Ninth International Conference on the Inclusive MuseumNational Underground Railroad Freedom CenterCincinnati, USA | 16-19 September 2016www.onmuseums.com/2016-conference

Aging & Society: Sixth Interdisciplinary ConferenceLinköping UniversityLinköping, Sweden | 6-7 October 2016www.agingandsociety.com/2016-conference

Sixth International Conference on Food StudiesUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeley, USA | 12-13 October 2016www.food-studies.com/2016-conference

Sixth International Conference on Health, Wellness & SocietyCatholic University of AmericaWashington D.C., USA | 20-21 October 2016www.healthandsociety.com/2016-conference

Spaces & Flows: Seventh International Conference on Urban & ExtraUrban StudiesUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, USA | 10-11 November 2016www.spacesandflows.com/2016-conference

| Conference Calendar 2015-2016

Call for PapersFourteenth International Conference on New Directions in the HumanitiesNature at the Crossroads: New Directions for the Humanities in the Age of the Anthropocene8-10 JUNE 2016 | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | CHICAGO, USA | THEHUMANITIES.COM

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