Amanda Karby Staff Profile
Program / Service
Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Job Title
Publications Manager
Pronouns
she/herResponsibilities
As an eScholarship Publications Manager, Amanda collaborates with librarians and researchers across the 10-campus UC system to help manage a well-established journals publishing program and to cultivate new publishing projects with a particular focus on the humanities, social sciences, as well as other fields and researchers who are underserved by the traditional publishing marketplace. As part of the larger publishing team at CDL, she engages in outreach and engagement programming to support best practices among our existing eScholarship publications, including a list of over 90 actively publishing journals.
Education
MA, Publishing and Writing, Emerson College
BA, English and Creative Writing, Hope College
Background
Prior to joining CDL, Amanda worked as a Senior Digital Publishing Coordinator with Michigan Publishing Services at the University of Michigan Library (2016–2023), where she managed full-suite production for open access scholarly books and journals. She began her career at The MIT Press as a Digital Production Coordinator in 2014 and has previous experience in copyediting, permissions, and EPUB and web development. She is currently based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with plans to relocate to northern California in 2024. In her free time she enjoys live music, any and all Detroit sports, and 35mm film photography.
Professional Interests
- Accessibility in digital publishing
- Book publishing production workflows
- Copyediting (CMS/MLA/APA)
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
Papers and Presentations
Creating a Roadmap for Accessibility (ebookcraft, 2017)