Following the Long Civil Rights Movement Conference in April, the “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” project team had the opportunity to discuss digital publishing with the conference panelists in a workshop. Several members of the staff of the UNC Special Collections Library were also in the audience. We deeply appreciate the participation of all those who attended—especially considering that a beautiful spring day and ongoing conversations about the conference panels beckoned! Following are highlights of the workshop discussion. I welcome comments, questions, and continued conversation. This will be the first of a number of posts about the “publishing” part of the “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” project.
The workshop began with a number of “what ifs” suggested by LCRM team member Mark Simpson-Vos, who is an acquisitions editor at the University of North Carolina Press and a project team member, relating to “publishing as community”: What if works of scholarship were published online with a commenting feature allowing authors and others to link to primary sources and enrich the work on an ongoing basis? Continue reading ‘Digital Publishing Workshop’