[Fwd: [ili-l] CIL - Volume One now available in print...]

[Carol Bean]

I don't know if anyone is subscribed to the ili-l list, but this was interesting.  I'm not suggesting we do the same, but just throwing it out there for discussion.  Their journal is at:  http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php

Carol Bean

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Subject:	[ili-l] CIL - Volume One now available in print...
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:01:29 -0400
From:	Christopher Hollister <cv...@buffalo.edu>
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To:	ILI-L List <IL...@ala.org>

Dear ILI-L community...

The Editors of Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) are proud to 
announce the print-on-demand collected edition of Volume One (2007). This 
volume includes the full text of all the articles and editorial content 
from our first year of publication. It also includes an original foreword 
from Barbara Fister, and a special introduction written by the editors.

The volume is a hardbound casewrap edition and sells for $39.95 on
Lulu.com. All proceeds from the sale of this volume will go toward the 
continuation of the online journal, including web hosting fees and 
promotional costs. (This volume also provides libraries with a permanent 
copy for the shelves while supporting the open access model of publishing 
at an exceptionally reasonable cost. Please encourage your collection 
management librarians to consider purchasing a copy!)

Visit Lulu.com for more information:

http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=2050786

CIL can pay for more than a month of online access from the sale of a 
single copy of Volume One. Selling just ten copies would pay for a full 
year! We also welcome donations via check or PayPal -- Visit our support 
page for details:

http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/about/journalSponsorship

And thank you for your kind consideration!

Christopher Hollister
Information Literacy Librarian
Oscar A. Silverman Undergraduate Library
112 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-2944, ext. 267
Fax: (716) 645-3067
E-Mail: cv...@buffalo.edu
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[Jonathan Rochkind]

We'd talked about doing this for each issue. Once Ryan has a thing to
automatically create a PDF of each issue, sending it to a print on
demand service too is pretty easy. (It won't be super pretty, although
it'll be prettier after Sean's redesign!). I think that would be pretty
slick, actually. Although most people will probably just choose to print
out the PDF, rather than get a fancy bound print-on-demand.

Jonathan

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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu

[Edward Corrado]

I brought this idea up at Code4Lib 2008 with a number of people and I
think everyone I talked to had a positive response to it. My idea was
to do this after Issue 4 comes out and create a volume containing
issues 1-4. If anyone actually purchases it, we could do it yearly after
that. I guess we can do it more often, but I don't think it is
necessary. I didn't really think about pricing, but I figured we'd just
sell it for the price it costs to print it (i.e. no markup). I imagine
we won't sell many, so I don't think we'd make much even if we did have
a markup - and besides if we did make any money, what would we spend it
on? WE are hosted for free, and we are all volunteers. If I thought we'd
sell thousands of issues a small markup to support a scholarship to
attend Code4Lib would be nice, but I'm guessing our sales will be in the
tens and not anywhere near the hundreds, let alone thousands, so it
would probably be more of a hassle then anything to charge any markup.

I guess this brings up two questions. 1) Should we do a print copy at
all, and 2) If so, should how often should we do it?

As per above, I think we should do it, and it should be done yearly (at
least initially).

Edward

Jonathan Rochkind said the following on 03/25/2008 4:55 PM:

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Systems Librarian
The College of New Jersey
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