In the new book, Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers, GSLIS Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn and coeditor Mike Furlough, executive director of the HathiTrust Digital Library, have assembled chapters from experts in library publishing that explore current practices and potential developments in the field. Contributors include GSLIS alumni Kevin S. Hawkins (MS '03), Cyril Oberlander (MS '00), and Patricia Hswe (MS '08). Topics range from student publishing, to new models of library publishing, to data curation in academic libraries. Getting the Word Out is available in print and ebook formats from the American Library Association and as an open-access pdf.
Bonn is the editor of the Journal of Electronic Publishing. At GSLIS, she teaches courses on the role of libraries in scholarly communication and publishing. Prior to her teaching appointment, Bonn served as the associate university librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan Library, with responsibility for publishing and scholarly communications initiatives, including the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office. Bonn has also been an assistant professor of English at institutions both in the Unites States and abroad. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester, master's and doctoral degrees in American Literature from SUNY Buffalo, and a master's in information and library science from the University of Michigan.