Session 3K | Subject Librarians, Outreach, and Digital Publishing: My First eBook Project

A subject librarian’s experience with a scholarly communication project. This presentation will try to present scholarly communication work as a natural outgrowth of the outreach and relationship building that subject librarians typically engage in. We used Pressbooks, and the resulting eBook was published jointly through TTU’s Institutional Repository and an Italian publisher (Ytali). The work received significant attention here and in the Italian art community, including a joint online presentation with artist Ezio Gribaudo, whose work was the subject of the eBook. Includes lessons learned and suggestions for librarians interested in pursuing scholarly communication projects.