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Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundationand the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sylvia K. Miller, Project Director

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§ UNC Press (Principal Investigator, Kate Torrey, Director)

§ Special Collections Library, UNC (P.I., Rich Szary,Director)

§ Southern Oral History Program at the Center for theStudy of the American South (P.I., Professor JacquelynDowd Hall, Director, SOHP)

§ Center for Civil Rights, UNC Law School (P.I., JuliusChambers, Director)

Project staff for each partner

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} To advance scholarship on the Long CivilRights Movement

} To publish in innovative ways on civil rights} To help to discover where scholarly

publishing is going in the future

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} The increasingly overlapping roles ofscholarly publishers and librarians:

Libraries’“scholarly communications”involvepublishing services;Publishers offer library­ like hosting, searching, andlinking online.Does digitization of collections = publishing?

} The old boundary between us becomes aspace in which we work together.

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Meetings, meetings, meetings.  (Brainstorming,working groups, next steps, mini projects)Sketches to summarize our collective thinkingLCRM Conference April 3­ 4, 2009Focus groups, workshop following conference;surveyInvestigating technologies is an iterative processTechnology research necessarily turned inward,to our own systems and capabilitiesDefining “publishing platform”

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Interactive Monograph Underlying Architecture

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1. Internal navigation (i.e., TOC, runningheads, page numbers, index, cross­references)

2. Apparatus pointing outward to sources anddirections for further research (notes,bibliography, illustrations which mightrepresent an archive)

3. Tangents:  sidebar stories, boxed features,long notes, definitions, inserts

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From Human Diseases and Conditions(3 vols.), edited by Neil Izenberg,

M.D. (Scribners, 2000)

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From Introduction to Mythology,Second Edition by Eva M. Thury and

Margaret K. Devinney (Oxford, 2009)

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From Civilizations of the Ancient NearEast (4 vols.), edited by Jack Sasson

(Scribners, 1995)

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} “Monographs aren’t published; they areabandoned.”

} “Publishing as community”:  the publicationcan continue to develop in collaboration overtime and spark new work

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Annotation by author links to primary sources and invites comment.

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§ Scholars:  Book is read and taught; it sparks new projects;promotion/tenure via UNC Press legitimatization ofpublishing activity; share with students how history isresearched and written

§ Library:  Increased discovery and use of collections; excitingpublishing service to offer to faculty; helps to prioritizecollections for digitization; positive publicity attracts newcollections/donations

§ Publisher:  Sell more books; create new publications; attractauthors; strengthen list/profile in the field

§ Activists:  History informs organizing; current work recordedand used (they “make history”)

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} To create a platform/environment that isused, not just admired

} To balance traditional forms of scholarshipwith innovation

} To focus on achievable goals for all partners} To achieve scalability and sustainability} More:  legal, ethical, editorial, technical,

diplomatic, monetary . . .

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} LCRM Online Center or “hub”} Developing community­ organizing manuals with

CCR, SOHP, and archives} Archiving and publishing CCR and SOHP work} Digitization on demand for scholars and communities} Connecting primary and secondary sources (“data

sets”within the publishing process} CPP for development of library subject guides and

finding aids} TEI XML Best Practices for university presses} LCRM full­ text resource} CPP as teaching tool} Hybrid business model

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You are invited to follow developments at . . .

http://lcrm.unc.edu