Making it Meaningful: Building Library Publishing Infrastructure through Community

In July of 2014, the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) officially launched as a membership community of libraries engaged in scholarly publishing.The launch was the result of 61 academic libraries providing seed funding and volunteer hours to address an unmet need in the field -the need for greater communication and alignment between publishing programs.During our 2023-24 program year, LPC celebrated our 10th anniversary.We took the opportunity to reflect on how the field has evolved since our seed-funded project period.When the CSLP editor invited me to contribute a piece inspired by LPC's anniversary reflections, I had intended to write about LPC's founding and development as a case study of community formation in support of library activities.That story, however, has already been told-most effectively by Katherine Skinner in her opening keynote at the 2024 Library