2024-25 Library Futures Research Network

The Research Network consists of members from various fields relating to libraries, publishing, and technology. In 2024, six members were selected for their expertise and leadership in their respective fields, as well as the quality of project proposals and relevance to Library Futures’s mission.

2024-25 Cohort

  • Megdi Abebe, up//root in partnership with the Friends of the San Quentin Library
  • Arthur (AJ) Boston, Scholarly Communication Librarian and Associate Professor at Murray State University
  • Kathleen Delaurenti, Director of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University’s Arthur Friedheim Music Library
  • Jessica Farrell, independent researcher
  • Amanda Levendowski, Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic at Georgetown Law
  • Kerry Masteller, Music Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Digital Programs at Harvard University’s Loeb Music Library

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Library Futures Announces Research Grant Recipients

Welcome to our first research network cohort!

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Know Your Rights

In an increasingly digital environment that grows increasingly confusing, this zine helps librarians understand the ins and outs and the promises and potential perils of digital collecting and lending in libraries from a legalistic framework.
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Controlled Chaos

A zine by workers at the San Quentin Prison Library.
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My Consumer Autobiography

AJ Boston breaks down the 34 mostly-digital books he read in 2024 with discussion of the books themselves and observations from borrowing or buying them.
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How to Publish Your Academic Paper without Publishers, Bosses, Gods, or Masters

Jess Farrell outlines a community-driven approach to academic publishing.
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