Information, Medium, and Society’s Updates

Changes to the Books, Publishing and Libraries Research Network

We have the pleasure of announcing the re-framing of the Books, Publishing, and Libraries Research Network. From today on our Research Network will be known as the Information, Medium and Society – The Publishing Studies Research Network.

We see this as a natural progression. Founded in 2003, with the inaugural International Conference on the Future of the Book, we focused on one object – the book. In 2009 we expanded our critical scope becoming the Books, Publishing, and Libraries Research Network. In this iteration, the Research Network began to look beyond the book as the primary site of investigation. And now, in 2019, the network undergoes another change, to become the Information, Medium and Society – The Publishing Studies Research Network, broadening its scope to explore the nature, role and purpose of information and publishing in society.

The full announcement can be found here.