• Large Trade Publishers See Flat Sales for 2022

According to Publishers Weekly “Rising costs and slowing demand caught up with three of the four major publishers that release their financial results, leading to a decline in profits at Penguin Random House, Lagardère Publishing, and HarperCollins in 2022 compared to 2021. Only Simon & Schuster was able to counter the trend, posting a 16.4% increase in earnings on an 18.5% gain in sales. …”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• Seven New or Recently Updated Reports From the Congressional Research Service (CRS)

• University of Huddersfield takes its ILL turnaround time from 2-5 days to 9 hours

• ProConsort contracts with ATLAS Systems to provide licensed services to libraries nationwide

• CCC Signs Bilateral Agreement with the Malaysia Reprographic Rights Centre

• TN bills targeting library book publishers, changing police oversight boards advance [WKRN]

• American Library Association (ALA) Executive Director Tracie D. Hall Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World

• ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, and the news

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, WEBINARS

• RBMS 2023 Conference Registration Open

Registration is now open for the .ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) 2023 Conference. Themed A New Kind of Professional, the conference will be held June 27-30, 2023, at Indiana University Bloomington and virtually.
At RBMS 2023, you’ll explore how we educate both new and established workers at a time when the need to reframe and reimagine our collections and audiences is even more vital. ..."