Your Partners in Copyright and Library Administration
About Us
Over 70 Years of Combined Library and Legal Expertise
Lisa Macklin and Kevin Smith are librarians and lawyers with decades of experience in library leadership as well as helping academic libraries understand and navigate copyright. Lisa and Kevin met at a conference in 2007 and discovered how closely their educational and career paths paralleled. They were also in newly formed scholarly communications roles and each was the first incumbents in their position. Their friendship and collaboration have persisted over two decades.
As we learned from each other and from colleagues, we also committed to giving back and sharing the expertise and experience we gained. This Copyright and Library Administrative Consulting website and set of services is our latest endeavor on this path. We hope to leverage our expertise and experience to help YOU be successful.
If you are simply here to read the latest blog post, you are most welcome to join us on this journey. Our hope is that you find something that gives you a new insight or even inspiration.
About Us
Lisa Macklin
Lisa most recently served as Associate Vice Provost and University Librarian, culminating a career at Emory Libraries having served as Interim Dean, Associate Dean of Research, Engagement, and Scholarly Communications, Director of Scholarly Communications Office, and the first team leader for the Electronic Resources Team. Previously, Lisa served as the Head of Acquisitions and Serials at Georgia Tech Libraries and Serials Librarian at University of North Texas. Her career has spanned multiple aspects of management and leadership, managing significant changes in the scholarly communications ecosystem and the evolution of libraries.
As both a librarian and a lawyer, Lisa’s interests include the application of copyright law to teaching, research and publishing; transformations in scholarship and publishing, including new models of scholarship and the Open Access movement. She served as PI on a grant from the Mellon Foundation to create a Model Publishing Contract for Digital Scholarship and is co-creator of two MOOCs on copyright for educators and librarians. She has published multiple articles and book chapters primarily focusing on copyright and libraries. Lisa holds a BA in English and an MA in Library and Information Science from University of South Florida, an MA in English from Texas Woman’s University, and a JD from Georgia State University.
To learn more about Lisa’s career, see her LinkedIn profile.
About Us
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith recently retired as the Director of Libraries at Colby College in Maine. He is a lawyer and a librarian and has spent years teaching librarians and faculty about copyright. For a decade he served as Director of the Office for Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University. In 2016 he became the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas, where he also taught Copyright Law in the KU School of Law. He served as the Director of the University Press of Kansas in 2021-22. Smith moved to Maine, and Colby, in 2022, where he continued to teach an undergraduate course about copyright and the music industry.
Smith has served as a resource on local and national policy in order to help the University community stay informed and involved with the changing landscape of scholarly publication. He is the author of numerous articles and two books about how copyright law impacts the practice of librarians and university faculty, as well as co-creator of two MOOCs on copyright for educators and librarians. He is also a frequent speaker on these topics.
To learn more about Kevin’s career, see his LinkedIn profile and his ORCID site.
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