Maria Bonn, GSLIS senior lecturer, recently assumed the role of editor for the Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP). The first issue produced under her direction, Volume 17, Issue 1 (Winter 2014), is now available online.
Before joining GSLIS in 2013, Bonn served as associate university librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan and oversaw the University of Michigan Press, which publishes JEP. The journal was created in 1995 to explore publishing in the developing digital age. It continues to document issues in contemporary publishing and provides a venue for experimentation in digital communication.
Bonn’s first issue as editor is an example of this. It documents the conference proceedings of Books in Browsers IV, a conference held October 24-26, 2013, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California. “Proceedings” in this case goes beyond traditional text-based submissions and includes multimedia entries such as video, audio with transcripts, and slides. “We use JEP as a laboratory for trying new things,” said Bonn. “In this issue, we’ve stretched the boundaries of a traditional publication.”