Mixing Oil and Water: Recipes for Press-Library Collaboration

Recipes for success in press library collaborations can involve dangerous and foreign cultures, environments, and materials that often don't mix together easily or regularly. This session will look at those incompatibilities and examine how a few presses have tried to mix the oil and water of publisher and library. From the perspective of three university press directors, the panel will identify the ingredients in a successful partnership that may not be as obvious to onlookers as we think they are, and whose "mixing" requires more than simply the idea of collaboration.