Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships (P2L)

Across the Great Divide:Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships(P2L)ByMary Rose Muccie (Temple University Press) Joe Lucia (Temple University Libraries) Elliott Shore (ARL)Clifford Lynch (CNI) Peter Berkery (AAUP) 2Across the Great DivideAcknowledgmentsFinancial SupportAndrew W. Mellon FoundationSummit Planning & DevelopmentJulia Claire Blixrud, 1954–2014, deserves special recognition as the originator of the idea to convene this forum bringing presses and libraries together.Rikk Mulligan, Visiting Program office at ARL for Scholarly Publishing July 2014–June 2016, for extensive work calling together the P2L Summit organizers & participants, helping to shape the program and agenda, and coordinating event logistics with ARL & Temple University staff.Monica McCormick, Digital Scholarly Publishing Officer, New York University, for event facilitation and general guidance with respect to issues and challenges involved in Library / Press cooperation and collaboration.P2L Summit Program Committee Members:Lisa Bayer, University of Georgia PressJane Frances Bunker, Northwestern University PressJoe Lucia, Dean of Libraries, Temple UniversityPeter Berkery, Executive Director, AAUPBrenna McLaughlin, Director of Marketing & Communications, AAUPMary Rose Muccie, Temple University PressElliott Shore, Executive Director, Association of Research LibrariesKaren Williams, Dean of University Libraries, University of ArizonaEvent Day Note-taking & DocumentationSara Cohen, Editor, Temple University PressAaron Javsicas, Editor-in-Chief, Temple University PressAnnie Johnson, Scholarly Communications Specialist, Temple UniversityElizabeth Waraksa, Program Director for Research and Strategic Initiatives, Association of Research LibrariesEvent Administrative and Logistics SupportAmy Eshgh, Association of Research LibrariesChristine Jones, Temple University LibrariesMarianne Moll, Temple University LibrariesThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 3Across the Great DivideAcross the Great Divide:Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meetingof Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships (P2L)ByMary Rose Muccie (Temple University Press)Joe Lucia (Temple University Libraries)Elliott Shore (ARL)Clifford Lynch (CNI)Peter Berkery (AAUP)Context and RationalePartnerships and collaborations have become standard responses to the multiple challenges that both higher education and scholarly publishing face. Organizing the work of the academy, either on one campus or across institutions, around collaborative partnerships often enables cost reduction, increases efficiencies, and perhaps most usefully, builds connections between distinct domains to achieve greater strategic impact. In the area of scholarly communication, new or revived partnerships between the university press and the academic research library are an opportunity to re-imagine functions that have been separated from one another through custom, convenience, professional practices, or standard administrative operation.In many of these re-imaginings, provosts and higher-education funders view the library as an appropriate host and sponsor for experiments, situated as it is at the center of many campuses, and in light of its role in the collection, preservation, and dissemination of information and scholarship. Instructional technology support, writing centers, digital scholarship centers, visualization labs, and carefully designed collaborative learning and research facilities are examples of the ways in which academic libraries have adapted to reaffirm their positions as centers for discovery, knowledge creation, and scholarship within a college or university.At the same time, the university press occupies a complementary position on the outer boundaries of a university, attracting and disseminating the work of the global academy. As a public-facing unit that generally operates on a different (and often increasingly problematic) budgetary basis than the library or instructional units, university presses have been challenged to leverage linked information technologies that take a new vision of scholarly communications from imagination to reality, while maintaining standards of scholarly merit vis-à-vis consistently applied peer review and editorial best practices. Interest in partnership between press and library demonstrates an appreciation that the skills, roles, and capacities of these two institutional units can together support a common mission.Increasingly these partnerships start with an administrative merger that subordinates one unit to the other at an organizational level, i.e., the press reporting to the library. In some cases the institution is trying to solve one or more of a set of issues that arise from the changing roles and 4Across the Great Divideoperating environment