2024 Library Futures Research Network Award

In 2024, we announced that Arthur Boston, well-known to many on social media and in the scholarly communication community, would be bringing us a more personal take on many of the issues we address. As he described it, his project tackled “the personal ownership, lease, and use of digital and physical books from the perspective of a consumer, father, academic librarian, and former public librarian.”

Funding for this project was provided by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. Library Futures is proud to support the work of our community and to amplify the voices of those doing crucial work on equitable access in the digital age. We are grateful to the members of our inaugural research network for being a part of it.

About the Grantee

Arthur (“AJ”) Boston is Scholarly Communication Librarian at Murray State University, where he coordinates student grants and events for the Office of Research and Creative Activity, manages the institutional repository, and teaches a scholarly communication course. AJ writes and talks about open access, peer review, and books, and he has served on the International Open Access Week Advisory Committee, the Irish Open Access Access Publishers Advisory Board, and was a Library Publishing Coalition Fellow.