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Dear colleagues,

Since the October release of documentation for our twelve partner libraries
<https://educopia.org/library-publishing-workflows/#workflow-packets>,
the Library
Publishing Workflows project
<https://educopia.org/library-publishing-workflows/> team has been focused
on supporting workflow documentation within the wider library publishing
community. Today, we are excited to share a set of tools to help you
document your journal publishing workflows and use that documentation to
reflect on your programs and practices.

The Library Publishing Workflows Docum
<https://educopia.org/documentation-and-reflection-tools/>entation and
Reflection Tools <https://educopia.org/documentation-and-reflection-tools/>
are a set of guides, reflection tools, worksheets, and other resources to
aid library publishers in the documentation and assessment of their library
publishing workflows.

The documentation tools will guide you in the work of describing your
current publishing workflow:

   -

   Documenting Your Journal Publishing Workflow, a guide to creating
   detailed documentation about your journal publishing workflow.
   -

   Diagramming Your Journal Publishing Workflow, a guide to help you to
   create the type of graphic representation of your journal publishing
   workflow that we included in our partner documentation packets
   <https://educopia.org/library-publishing-workflows/#workflow-packets>.


The reflection tools will help you use that documentation to reflect
critically on your practice in a number of areas

   -

   Are Our Values Reflected in Our Workflow?, a tool for reflecting on your
   publishing program’s values and how they are reflected in your publishing
   workflows
   -

   Is Our Work Sustainable and Scalable?, a tool for reflecting on capacity
   and costs
   -

   What Standards and Policies Are We Using?, a tool for identifying where
   standards and policies are enacted and where others could be added
   -

   What Other Documentation Do We Need?, a tool for helping you identify
   where you may benefit from additional documentation


We hope that you find these tools useful! They are released under a
Creative Commons Attribution license, so you are invited to share and adapt
them. We also encourage community members to share your resulting workflow
documentation with fellow library publishers. The purpose of the Workflows
project is to support peer learning and allow library publishers to build
on each others’ work, so we hope to see many more shared workflow
documents!

We couldn’t have done this work without the financial support of the IMLS,
and without the work of University of Alberta Library, Robert W. Woodruff
Library (Atlanta University Center), California Digital Library, Claremont
Colleges Library, Columbia University Libraries, Ames Library (Illinois
Wesleyan University), University of Michigan Library, Pacific University
Libraries, The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh,
Armacost Library (University of Redlands), University Libraries at Virginia
Tech, and Wayne State University Libraries.


Best wishes,

Caitlin Perry
Communications and Data Manager
Educopia Institute <https://educopia.org/>
Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/Educopia>!

She/Her
Working from Oyster Bay, NY

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