The Changing Standards Landscape: 16th Annual NISO/BISG Forum Diverse & Sustainable: A Conversation About How Book Publishing Evolves

Scope

The last several years have highlighted pressing concerns about social responsibilities and our collective action or inaction. Book publishers have begun to measure diversity in many ways: the books we publish, the authors we sign, the staff we employ, the content we promote, the labor policies we adopt, and more. Increasingly, environmental sustainability has also risen as a concern and become part of industry conversations around making book publishing more inclusive and promoting social justice more generally. Pressingly, we now need to move from talking about change to making an actual difference across the industry. The challenge is about more than just what publishers do: it stretches across the supply chain, affecting manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and libraries, as well. This program will identify primary concerns around diversity and sustainability, document what has been done, outline what more needs to be done, and discuss the obstacles and opportunities that remain.

Speakers: Bill Barry, Environmental Sustainability Advisor, Macmillan Publishers; Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO; Gwen Evans, Vice President, Global Library Relations, Elsevier; Kimberly Gladfelter Graham, Education Program Manager & DEIA Advocate, NISO; George Kerscher, Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium, and President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF); Brian O’Leary, Executive Director, BISG; Claudia Pilcher, Sustainability Planner, Scholastic Publishing; Ethan Tolpin, Manager of Environmental Sustainability, Macmillan; and Courtney Young, University Librarian, Colgate University. 

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