Amanda Hurford is the Scholarly Communications Director for the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). Hurford leads efforts to create and sustain collaborative scholarly communication programming across the 24 small, private institutions that make up PALNI. Programs include PALNI Press; PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning; and Hyku for Consortia. She is also the Secretary of the ALI Scholarly Communications Committee.
Scholarly communication librarianship presents innovative opportunities to create and share scholarship. Hurford believes that doing this work in a consortium is particularly rewarding since it helps to meet shared needs and deduplicate efforts for librarians with overflowing workloads. An example is PALNI's library publishing program, the PALNI Press. Students, faculty, and staff are provided the resources they need to publish open-access works in various formats, using centrally managed open-source platforms. She is very excited about PALNI's recent project to partner with faculty to publish open textbooks using Pressbooks. Check out the news release about their first publication: PALSave Textbook Creating Grant program releases first open textbook, "The Bible and Music."
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