Driving and Achieving Change: Practical Guidance from Practical People

Allison Belan is the assistant production manager for journals at Duke University Press. At Duke University Press, she manages a team that oversees the production process of 150 publications a year and slogs through the trenches of the changing scholarly publishing landscape. She project managed the development and implementation of a workflow management and bibliographic database system to serve the enterprise, and she is deeply engaged in the challenges of transforming Duke Press’s publishing program to meet the digital demands of tomorrow’s scholar.

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Bill Kasdorf is General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, a major print and online reference work published by Columbia University Press, and Vice President of Apex Content Solutions, a leading supplier of business services, data conversion, editorial, production, and support services to publishers and other organizations worldwide. With his colleagues at Apex and strategic partners, Bill provides comprehensive workflow and business process consulting that enables his clients to transform their content and processes through the use of best-of-breed technologies, services, and practices, resulting in faster throughput, better staff utilization, lower costs, and richer, more dynamic content. Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Bill has led seminars and spoken widely for publishing industry organizations such as SSP, Seybold Seminars, O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC), the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), and the Library of Congress.

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Scott Lubeck has more than thirty years of experience in publishing, entrepreneurship, and innovative use of technology. He began his career in editorial at the University of Texas Press in 1977; he became president of Texas Monthly Press in 1983. He has been at the forefront of many transformation initiatives in the publishing industry. As director of the National Academy Press in Washington, D.C. in 1989, he led pioneering work in digital print and Web publishing. In 1999 he joined the Perseus Books Group as vice president and managing director where he led the development of Perseus Print on Demand. In 2001 he joined Harvard Business School Publishing in the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer to lead its strategic initiatives in digital publishing. In 2007 he joined NewsStand/LibreDigital as vice president and general manager and in 2008 joined Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education as vice president of technology to lead its single-source publishing strategy. He is currently executive director of the Book Industry Study Group.

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Maureen McMahon is President and Publisher of Kaplan Publishing, one of the nation’s leading publishers of academic and professional development resources. Kaplan Publishing is a unit of Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company.

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