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Don't you let go. All I wanted is to know. All you want is control of your future and your pastimes. I need you now. Hello and welcome to the awards luncheon and business meeting of the 47th annual meeting. We hope you're enjoying your lunch. We want you to continue to do so as we start the program today.
I want to begin with a well, first of all, I'm Melanie dolecek and I'm the executive director for SSP. If you didn't see me up here earlier and I want to start tonight with our today's program with land acknowledgment. We humbly acknowledge that we are meeting this week on the traditional and contemporary homelands of Indigenous people, including the Piscataway and the Susquehanna peoples.
We acknowledge that the systemic inequities that have impacted Indigenous intergenerational traumas and health disparities. We give thanks to the past, present, and future stewards of this land. And just briefly, I want to remind everyone about antitrust compliance. SSP is committed to complying with competition and antitrust laws. Please avoid any discussions of pricing, market allocation, boycotts, or other topics that could be interpreted as anti-competitive.
If such discussions arise, they shall be stopped immediately to protect both individual participants and the organizations. So, with some housekeeping out of the way, without further ado, I would like to introduce you all the SSP president, Heather Staines. We're doing better than last year. We don't have any hallway people.
If you weren't here last year, ask folks what that means because we definitely improvement. We welcome you all into one room. So good afternoon, everyone. I've struggled over the past weeks and months, even about speaking to you today how to give a speech during a time that seems only comparable to riding on a bucking Bronco, or trying to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel to come up with something to say that reflects both the gravitas of the occasion, but also is representative of me and the weirdo that you've come to expect.
No singing. How does one give a speech that is neither woe is us or the sun will come out tomorrow. Did we ever think that an SSP session would have to declare it was under Chatham House rules. Did we ever think that. I definitely did not. So what did I do. I kind of weighted the way I do for the universe to come to me and tell its remarks through me.
So you are going to hear a tale involving a few personal anecdotes, some history, some literature and a few fictional characters. Little could we have known a year ago or six months ago, even the uncertain and unprecedented situation we faced during these moments, at a time when the very foundation of what we believe in as scholarly publishers is under attack. I don't consider myself a natural optimist.
My family used to joke that our motto was things could only get worse, and our family crest was a person with their head in their hands. There's no time for that way of thinking now. I find myself having to dig deep. As Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen said in her April 16 scholarly kitchen post, it's a tough time to be a human, and I'd add an animal, vegetable, or mineral. We've overcome a lot in recent years.
The continuing shift to more openly available content, more ethical and transparent research, and onslaught of bad actors trying to game the system. We survived the early days of COVID to get to whatever you might choose to call this time now. And those of us who already worked remotely are still hard pressed to understand just how jarring that shift to remote was, as well as how tough it was for essential personnel who weren't able to make that zag and had to take risks on behalf of all of us.
As I've said many times before, I feel so for the early career professionals who started out their journeys during and in the aftermath of such tumultuous changes, I would say to them, we need you and your contributions. How can we instill in you the love that we all feel for this profession. What will it take to keep you. It has been one of the honors of my life to serve you as SSP president.
One of my activities in the past two years has been working on the SSP strategic plan and sitting on the diversity subgroup to help identify a few actionable areas where our committees and volunteers can take that pillar forward. This is an area that's very close to my heart. Some of you know that I grew up attending a public school system in Columbus, Ohio, during court ordered desegregation in the late 70s.
Our junior high school and our elementary school before that was predominantly minority, with a large African-American student base and a wide array of immigrants and first generation Americans from Southeast Asia, Ukraine, Armenia, and many countries across Southern and Eastern Europe. This meant, under that desegregation order, that our school was the recipient of students from a wealthier and much whiter district.
It was a fraught situation, with neither group wanting to be around the other. Some students were only attending our school for a year and would return to the high school. They had always expected to attend their neighborhood school, one where their siblings had gone, but most would have to stay with us and make new friendships and traditions. If we felt somehow invaded, they felt completely upended Excuse me.
I'm pleased to say that, for the most part, we made it work. And by the time we graduated five years later, you'd be hard pressed to figure out looking at who hung out with or who participated in what activities or sports, whether it was their original school or not. Last summer we celebrated our 40th high school reunion. So I date myself classmate after classmate classmate remarked how lucky we were to have been nurtured in that diverse environment, that somewhat unique laboratory that junior high and high school always are, and how jarring it had been for some upon entering the real world, whether work or college, to learn that things were different on the outside.
From my perspective, I feel strongly that however imperfect, we found the wider world knowing how things could be and being appalled that they weren't more inclusive and more equitable was better than never having experienced that example at all. I think about this now with the generation just leaving college, which includes my two boys. Their high school and college years, in addition to being disrupted by COVID, were marked by the social justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd some short five years ago.
With so many people, including their peers, taking to the streets and fighting for justice, there must have been a strong sense for them that things were moving in the right direction. How do they find subsequent developments, I wonder. Do they feel like the world has failed them. Do they feel like we failed them. Sorry as a historian, I'm not sure how I feel about the notion that the arc of history bends towards justice, referencing both the abolitionist minister Theodore Parker and later Doctor Martin Luther King jr. History is indelibly marked by leaps forward, followed by periods of harsh backlash.
Positive developments don't happen just as a matter of course. You have to fight for them, and you have to follow in the footsteps of the fighters who came before and undertook their fight in times that were objectively speaking, much, much bleaker than how these times appear to us. It always feels like it's the worst when it's happening to you.
Technology also marches on. We find ourselves in an AI maelstrom as new tools transform, but also threaten our industry for quite a while. I was something that was always coming, incrementally, slinking up on us in a way that we didn't always even recognize. As Uc Davis librarian Peter Brantley once said at a Charleston plenary that I moderated, something stops being when it no longer impresses us.
Then in November 2022, ChatGPT came along and its LLM Cousins seemed to be everywhere all at once. We attempt now not only to find instances of plagiarized text, but to try to identify texts created by one of these AI tools. Higher Ed is also questioning how to deal with teaching a population where AI is the calculator that we were all told in school we needed to get along with because it wasn't going to be in our pocket.
Typically, some students are being warned they aren't allowed to use AI at all, and so their use of it leaves them paralyzed, uncertain, and fearful. A recent New Yorker article by Graham Burnett. Will the humanities survive. Artificial intelligence looks at this strange new world. On campus, we are told many are pretending this revolution isn't happening, something Bennett describes as pointing at daisies along the train tracks as an actual locomotive screams up from behind.
A history in the. A scholar in the history of attention. Isn't that a great area. Maybe I should reinvent myself as a scholar of the history of inattention. But maybe all history is the history of that. In any case, Bennett attempted to flip the script, loading his 900 page course reader into an I instance and tasking his students with having a conversation with a chatbot about the history of attention.
The results were fascinating and inspiring and experienced. Bennett refers to as one of the most profound in his career. Like watching a new kind of creature being born, and also watching a generation come face to face with that birth. One student, exploring the emotional connection with music, asked the bot to write a song that would make him cry. Unsurprisingly, it failed. Another told Bennett that the assignment had for her felt like an existential watershed.
The machine was not a person, and in conversing with it, she found herself strangely liberated by not having any responsibility at all towards it. After the assignment, some students asked Bennett how they should choose what to do with their lives. If these machines could do so many things faster and better. Could get the answers, or seemingly so. But to be human is not to have the answers, he notes.
It is to have questions and to live with them. And this is indeed a time of many questions, so many shocks to the system of publishers, societies, universities, librarians, researchers, students, and all traveling. A few weeks ago to Canada to meet my second grandson, jet with two T's. Born on May 1, I found myself engrossed in an Atlantic article called history will judge the complicit by Anne Applebaum.
It turned out when I checked the date halfway through to have originally been published in July, August 2020. So always check the sources. People check those citations. However, it was still eerily relevant to our environment today. The bulk of the article looks at why people go along with things they don't agree with, why they collaborate in the French Vichy sense of the term, one that implies betrayal of one's values.
Appelbaum provides numerous reasons behind such decisions, ranging from ideological fervor to strictly personal gain. She visits a woman named Marianne birthler, who was an activist in the 1980s against the East German Communist regime. Why do people collaborate. Appelbaum asked, but birthler countered that the more interesting question was, why do people not collaborate in a time when it seems that so many areas of society are complying in advance, to put it kindly or rolling over.
To put it bluntly, it is an interesting question. Fear, of course, is a main reason for going against your moral values. But being afraid shouldn't obscure the fact that fear has consequences. That summer 2020 article noting denial of COVID and ongoing attempts at voter suppression acknowledged that worse could follow. From that point.
It largely loses its contemporary value to us as we know the next chapter. But the question still resonates how does one find the courage to stand up for values. Noting that for many, the risk of public action may be simply too high to pay. Activist birthler notes that the choice to become a dissident can easily be the result of a number of small decisions that you take, until one day you find yourself irrevocably on the other side.
This process often involves role models in this challenging time. I am not surprised by the actions of some dedicated public servants. The Alt national Park Service, which actively chronicles on social media, sometimes cryptically, what's happening in the wake of the executive orders, the Library of Congress and the US Copyright Office, which are currently also fighting back, refusing access to administration officials and filing suit for unlawful dismissal.
I can honestly say I am not surprised one bit that the park Rangers and the librarians are leading the charge. My sister and her husband were both park Rangers and of course, some of my best friends are librarians. I stand before you today, passing the presidential reins to Rebecca, not knowing the course of events will take in the coming year. I've known Rebecca for more than a decade, and I know that her deep experience and thoughtful consideration mean I'm leaving you in great hands.
SSP is a strong organization made sturdier by its varied membership that spans disciplines, types of organizations from many areas of the world and those from all career levels. Under Rebecca's leadership, SSP will continue to pursue equity and diversity. Because we know the way that my classmates and I and many before us learned directionally the way we know things must go. It is hard to be human and to ask those questions that distinguish us from the I approaching today, I questioned myself about this milestone in my life.
My personal SSP journey over the years has been both humbling and gratifying. I easily found a home here. Recent remarks by the commencement speaker at the University of Maryland. When Kermit the Frog. Yes, Jennifer Regala was there. She can fact check me, inspire me to reflect upon what SSP has done for me, what Sesame Street did for Kermit.
SSP helped me learn what I am good at, and provided me with an environment where I feel like I am always amongst friends. From this unique and precious community, we can gain courage and seek counsel, but not in an antitrust way. We must work with our key constituencies to create a sort of solid scholarly communications mutual Aid Society, recognizing that for very good reasons, we are not all at liberty to speak out or act up in the same manner.
But we must show up to quote retraction watch's Ivan oransky at a recent CS meeting referencing another cartoon character. Now is not the time to disappear Homer Simpson style into the hedge. The stakes are simply too high. Those who know me know I'm an avid reader of science fiction, in particular dystopian novels, and certainly it's not fun to find yourself trapped in one.
Have you ever wondered what you do when confronted with an existential crisis, like a zombie apocalypse or an alien invasion. It's OK if you have it. I said I was weird. I'm not a strong fighter, and really, as a diabetic, I wouldn't last long. Taking to the hills anyway. But when confronted with a war against knowledge, a campaign against science, an attack upon basic human decency and compassion, I think in this struggle, I must be a fighter in defense of our values and those who rely on their continued existence.
At the risk of adding a third cartoon character into the mix. The last one, I promise. Like Jessica Rabbit, who told the police inspector and who Framed Roger Rabbit, I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. I am no longer willing to sit idly by. I'm not drawn that way. To conclude, I'm discouraged but not dissuaded. I'm horrified, but not hopeless.
I have faith in US. I have faith in you. Thank you for putting your faith in me. Together we are SSP. Thank you.
Well, now for something very different. The treasurer's report. Woo hoo. Heather thank you. That was beautiful. Thank you. All right.
Yeah Really. This is way drier. So my name is Emily dalkey. I am the treasurer for SSP. This is my fifth year, and I'm here to just four minutes. I'll be quick, but to share with you. Oh, there we go. Some context around the numbers and the financial performance of SSP.
Again, this feels very odd. We need to change the order in the future. All right. So I'm going to share a very high level summary of what happened over the last three years, just to give some context. So that said, all the financials are available to SSP members at any time during the year. So if you have any questions, just don't hesitate to reach out to me.
So the last three years have started to bring back some of the usual patterns that we used to see before 2020. To all of our relief, as far as meanings and associations go. At the same time, SSP and the board made deliberate choices to put a greater emphasis on revenue diversification for SSP. So for context, to put these three years into a little bit more of just background around it.
In 2022, we hosted a modified annual meeting back in person in Chicago with a well-attended virtual option. That said, the stock market experience was really experienced a lot of volatility this year, and that actually reduced some of the gains that we had previously realized. And so it impacted our overall performance for 2022. As you can see for the numbers there in 2023, we were back to mostly normal conditions with a successful annual meeting.
We were in Portland. Attendance was still not quite back to what it used to be, but we were able to realize some savings to control our expenses, realize some savings because we were in Portland, and control a little bit of revenue by being creative with some of our offerings that year. Also, the stock market was performing strongly, and so the reserve in particular really benefited from that jump. Last year, 2020 for the annual meeting was in Boston, and we had nearly 1,000 people, 1,000 attendees.
So we were back to pre-pandemic level, which was really great to see. But being in Boston had a lot of advantages, but it also presented some challenges and some additional costs. At the same time, our educational programs and sponsorship was were a little bit softer than in the past. So you bring that plus actually the stock market that was last year performing strongly and did benefit our reserve.
So overall, we ended the year with in a strong position. So in summary, we feel like we entered 2025 in a good position overall. We have a strong reserve and we have exciting plans to maintain and expand some of the programming and events that we have. So as always, we've been able to make the best of all these changes and circumstances thanks to a lot of work from the committees, from the volunteers, from Melanie and from her team.
There's a lot that many of you contribute every day to the organization and to the health of the organization. So a big thank you for that. So like I said earlier, the financials are available to all SSP members. So don't hesitate to reach out to me at any point if you have any questions. That's it for the numbers. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Emily the success of SS or SSP success really sits on the shoulders of so many individuals and organizations, and we want to take a minute to recognize those folks now. So I want to say thank you to our sponsors. You can see their logos here on the screen. Let's give round of applause. And if you're with a sponsoring organization, please stand up.
There are many, many leaders of SSP that have contributed to the shaping of this organization and what it is now. So if you are a past president of SSP, please stand up.
Our committee and task force chairs are the leaders of this organization. That day in and day out are working to bring the programs, the education, the mentorship, all of these different things that we benefit from as an organization and as individuals. So if you are a committee or task force chair, please stand up.
And SSP has more than 300 individuals that volunteer to help support the activities of the organization. So if you serve on a committee or a task force, please stand up. Many of you are familiar with the scholarly kitchen, which is the most read publication in our industry, and I would like to acknowledge our editor executive editor, David Crotty.
Please stand up, David. Give us a wave. Not with us today is our associate editor, Diandra Roberts. And our newly appointed deputy editor, Lete Conrad. SSP also appoints the North American editor for learned publishing.
So, please, if you're here, Michelle, please stand up. Michelle urban is not with us today, but I would like to recognize her as well. Our outgoing associate editor, Angela Cochran. The strategic direction of the organization is firmly in the hands of our board of directors and our officers. So I like to acknowledge our officers Heather Staines, Rebecca McLeod, Emily delk and Randy Townsend.
Please stand up. And I'd also like to recognize our board members at large. Mike Dinatale, Yale Fitzpatrick, Hannah heckner Swain, Simon Holt, Judy Delaney, Mia, Richa Ricci, Damita, tau tau, and Simone Taylor. Please stand up.
And with that, I'm going to turn it back over to Heather. There's a lot of up and Downs in these things, so. We could not bring this meeting to you. And I know I've said this repeatedly up here, that we could not bring this meeting to you without an x, y, or z constituency, but we really could not bring this meeting to you without members of the SSP staff Jackie Lord, Susan Paton, Madeleine stone, Tracy Mitchell, Christian prewett, Natalie zundel and of course, Melanie dolecek.
We do have a few board members who are outgoing, although we never truly let them go, as you know. So I would like to invite our outgoing board members to join us on stage. Michael Dinatale. No you can.
You can all get up, Hannah. You can wait over there. It's fine. Now, there's a little choreography that has to happen here. So I'm getting in trouble because I skipped the rehearsal. Oh, wow La.
Towel, towel. Who was not able to join us today. But we'll make sure she gets her award. And Randy and tau. Tao? yes. And Randy Townsend. From up above. I feel it coursing through my blood.
Life is a dream. Your life's about to make the stars collide. I thank you, Randy. I think everybody should get a plaque, don't you You guys, did you get a plaque. You get a plaque. It's also my pleasure to introduce the incoming Board members at large.
And I would like to invite them to come to the stage. Yes OK. Sorry I'm in such big trouble. They're never going to ask me to do this again. Beth cannon, Director of editorial operations, American Physical Society. Willa Liburd Tavernier. Research and impact and open scholarship librarian, Indiana University.
Tim Lloyd, CEO, leblancs. Are you OK. Jennifer Regala, associate director of publishing, Wolters Kluwer health. And last but not least, our President-elect, Damita snow. I know it's the truth without reason or rhyme.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If it's working, I'm just kidding. Go on and. Throw it down street. Don't miss it. You already punched your ticket. And now you've probably already met her already. But I would like to introduce Rebecca McLeod, our incoming president. Rebecca I have for Rebecca a beautiful engraved gavel with her.
And ask her later to show it to you. Ooh should we do the picture here. Oh thank you. Well, here. We got to take a picture. Oh, well, we never will. Oh, sorry each day it is retrieved. Seems like yesterday. So I want to thank Heather for her wonderful year of service.
I know she's still staying on the board as an immediate past president, but thank you very much. And I've got big shoes to fill between this wonderful emotional speech. I don't God. Anyway, thank you so much. And I know that we'll still have you on the board. So we're lucky to have you and just thank you for everything. I got big shoes to fill, guys, so give another round of applause.
Whoops it's backward. Is that right. OK I don't know. Yeah is that your gavel. What do you say. Now we got it. All right, I don't have. Melanie only gave me a few minutes. I'll talk fast.
Got to find my notes. Hi, everybody. I'm Rebecca McLeod, if I'm sure but in case you don't. And my day job, I am the managing director at Harvard Data Science initiative. And I'm deeply honored and excited to serve as your next president of SSP. Now, I think the first annual meeting I attended was back in 2000.
I bet some of you weren't even born yet when my then boss, Janet Fisher, was SSP president, but I wasn't fully engaged until maybe a few years later. But since then, SSP has played an instrumental role in my career journey, especially during my mid-career years. So I'm forever grateful for the professional opportunities and friendships that have come about through my involvement at SSP. So when I was first elected, several people asked ask me what was my platform going to be.
What was my theme going to be as president. Randy focused on mental health awareness, and Heather's term emphasized the supporting early career professionals. I had a few ideas brewing, but then events in Washington unfolded and executive orders were issued. So now I feel like I will be serving as your wartime SSP president.
And I don't mean this. Right Yes. And I'm not trying to be funny, but I mean, we're under attack. So as your wartime president, I pledge that despite all the chaos, uncertainty, upheaval, SSP will keep calm and carry on. We will.
We will continue to support our members, stay true to our core values of community, inclusivity, adaptability and integrity, and remain unwavering in our commitment to Dia, one of our strategic goals. All right. One of our strategic goals is to make SSP a home for scholarly communication professionals at every career level.
So no matter what happens out there, we will remain a safe harbor for our members to network, disseminate information, foster new developments, commiserate if necessary, plan counter attacks in the war room. We will provide whatever is needed in the coming year. I have some ideas I'm thinking I'm percolating that might support our members in this challenging year, but I'll share that later. But for now, please know that along with outstanding board of directors and the excellent SSP staff led by Melanie, will be weathering the storm with you.
So just an aside, I love old movies. People who know me know that. So I mean old I mean old like 1930s and 40s. Not the 80s like my kids think. So I can't resist from borrowing a line from one of my favorite old actresses in front of my favorite movies, which is, we're going to fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy year, but we'll get through it together.
And I think have some fun along the way. So again, I look. So look forward to serving you this coming year. Please don't hesitate to reach out. I want to hear your suggestions, questions, concerns, anything. I'd love to hear from you. So thank you again. Thank you, Mr. Varma.
Whoops I'm sorry, I meant to introduce our lovely past president, Brandi Townsend back to the stage. She's going to talk about the Awards Committee, the awards. Sorry about that, Randy. I call him preacher Townsend, by the way, because of his great speaking skills. Thank you.
Rebecca preacher. Randy that's funny. All right, so at this time, I'd like to recognize the members of the career development committee, working group members for management of the highly competitive SSP fellowship award program. Please stand when I call your name. Michelle English. Tricia Miller.
Sharon Louise. Russell Sarah woolever. Emily Brown and Emily Mueller. Please give them a round of applause. Somebody asked me if I was an official member of that committee because I'm always at their meetings. Honestly, I don't think that I am.
But nobody had the heart to kick me out, so I just kept showing up. The fellowship program is so important. I gained so much by serving as a mentor. And for those of you who are mentors, thank you. And now I'd like to recognize the 2025 fellowship winners. Please join me on stage when I call your name. Eleanora Consuelo.
Colangelo sorry about that. Molly Hurst. Sighting Mikayla. Lee Anna. Lewis Julie. Julia Mullen.
Kare Nilsen. Nasim no. Sakari fukunaga. My mentee. Omar Rando. Omorodion OK, gang. Take me away.
Rachel riff. Albright Amanda Rogers. And Constantine sing. You gotta take me there. Please give him another warm round of applause.
Thank you. Thank you. Now you see. Oh, great. Now, I'd like to give my sincerest thanks to the members of the nominating and Awards Committee. Please stand when I call your name.
Hannah Hector. Swain swaying. Rebecca McLeod. Teodoro pulvirenti. Anne stone.
And die. Liaison, Shayna Lange. They answered my call, and I'm so grateful for the thought, respect, and continued support they gave throughout this year's nominations and awards process. It's a pleasure working with all of you. Now let's give out some awards.
Our first awards are the SSP appreciation awards. This award, created in 2003, recognizes the work of one or more members whose work over a short term has benefited SSP and the scholarly communications field. We have three recipients of the appreciation award this year. Please join me on stage when I call your name. Sean Pidgeon.
Erin Foley. I don't believe this. And Stephanie Lovegrove. Hansen just. Say I don't know where you're going.
So I stay. Stay so I stay. Stay push me away. Congratulations push me away. MS me away.
I always stay, I always stay. Push me away. Push me away. But I always stay I always stay and push me away. Push me away. Our next award is the SSP emerging Leader Award. Established in 2012, this award recognizes SSP and SSB member working in scholarly communications field for eight years or fewer who has demonstrated their potential through outstanding service and contribution on an SSP committee or task force, and has made innovative contributions to their field.
This year, the emerging Leader Award is being presented to two outstanding individuals and selecting recipients for this award. We were very focused on the importance of our future leaders, representing our core values of community, inclusivity, adaptability and integrity in all that they do. And I'm happy to say these recipients live these values. This year's emerging Leader Award recipients are cassia and Jenny Herbert.
Please join me on stage. Jenny wasn't able to join us. Thank you. All my love by where we belong is me. To survive, I ain't going to stop for anyone.
Congratulations I'm a hero. My hero, Nelson Mandela said a good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. These words remind me of the recipient of our final award. 18 years ago, she joined SSP and volunteered for the annual planning committee. Her contributions have faithfully guided our community through countless challenges and celebrations, providing calm, measured leadership, honesty, integrity, character, and humor.
She's the person you want in the room when you're having the tough conversations or walking with you when you're not even sure where you're going. It's my honor to present the 2025 Distinguished Service Award to Emily delk. She didn't know.
It could be anything. If you don't let go, you got the music in me. I knew that this is where I started. You come with me around. You got a reason to. Be here 4:00 AM we run a Miracle Mile. We're flat broke. But, hey, we do it in style.
Thank you. Rich kids flying in for a drive by. But when the night is falling, you can't afford. SSP, as an organization, is committed to leadership and workforce development and ensuring those leaders and our workforce are diverse and inclusive. That's why we launched the generations fund.
And today, I'm thrilled to share with you that we have finished fundraising for the generations fund. Allowing us to invest in our fellowship, mentoring, and Dia programs for the foreseeable future. One of the ways in which you have helped to finish this generations fund is by registering to participate in SSPs fourth annual virtual 5K run, walk and roll and there's still time to register to participate before the official race day of June 7.
So visit the SSP booth in the exhibit Hall and get your official race t-shirt. So far, we have more than 100 participants in this year's five-k. We challenge organizations to see which could register the most participants in the five-k. The competition ended this morning right before this event started, and I'm excited to announce that 2025 greatest of all teams.
This year we have two categories small but mighty for organizations under 50 full time employees and super sized and energized for larger organizations. I'd like to announce the winners of both categories and ask them to come on to the stage to receive their goat a trophies, bragging rights, and to take a photo. So drum roll for small but mighty hum. Come to the stage.
Come on. Anybody Bourbon. No harm. No one from hum here. They're on a run. They're running right now. OK, we'll save it for the Super sized and energized. It's the fire dogs.
Did I pronounce that right. Dogs are they here. Are they here. They're not here either they're running. Come on down. They just. They just wanted the long walk to the stage.
Congratulations yes. So today, I have the honor of recognizing our generous supporters. Behind me on the slide is our list of individual supporters. I mean, have to go up there with a magnifying glass. But anyway, to date, more than 500 of our members have pooled their generosity together to make this initiative possible.
So give round of applause to all of you. 500 of you. So I would like to invite our 1,000 plus donors and our finish the line monthly donors to the stage to collect a certificate to recognize their outstanding contributions. And these people knew who they were, right. They were notified, I believe. So if you were notified, come to this.
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During these individuals are some outstanding industry supporters to today. I would like to recognize these organizations by calling them to the stage to accept a certificate of gratitude for their impactful support of $1,000 or more. I'm going to call the organizations to the stage as a group, and then we'll at the end, we'll give everyone round of applause.
So please hold your applause until the end. So first is our patron level supporters of $1,000 access innovations. American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, apex co advantage, Aries systems, cactus communications, Cadmore media, Clark and Esposito, clerks, Crossref, emerald publishing, frontiers, impact journals, pariah dogs, Lumina data metrics, newgen, North America, openathens, Royal Society of chemistry.
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OK, next up, I would like to call our contributor level supporters of 5,000 or more to the stage. So starting off drum roll. American Chemical Society. American Geophysical Union. American psychology. American Psychological Association. Atypon cables and cell press. Elsevier delta.
Think highwire. Lib links. Mdpi plus research solutions. Silverchair Taylor and Francis and Wolters Kluwer health. You make me don't want to mess you up lately. You got me foreign straight through the roof. Oh, I can't get you off my mind. I think that it's all right Cause looking back I'm falling in love with you every single night.
That feeling, right. Where everything is fine. Just fine. She's falling in love with you in the summertime. She's falling in love with you in the summertime. Well, I guess I'm facing the truth that you find me one.
You got that look in your eyes like a loaded gun in a place in the time that I never was. It's all because I'm coming undone. Oh I can't get you off my mind. But I think that it's all right. So last but not least, I would like to recognize our promoter level supporters at the $15,000 and up gifts.
Starting off with copyright Clearance Center, knowledge works global, Springer Nature, and Wiley. Wanted to could you carry me back into your heart again. Could you carry me right into your destined hands. Could you carry me right back where we started from.
Could you carry me all alone and on and on and on and on and on and on. Could you carry me back to where we started from. Remember when we would dance all night. All right. We'd like to thank all of our donors, no matter how large or small their donations. Every single penny counted towards this enormous, ambitious goal that we had to continue to be able to fund our fellowship, mentorship and DEI programs into the future.
And we have a wonderful compilation video to show you now to hear from some of our donors and supporters in this endeavor. Wrong video. Hello, I'm Wayne Sai, Chief executive of the Association of learned and professional society publishers.
We'll try it again. You'll get to see that video tomorrow. On behalf of SSP, we want to take a moment to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your generous support has completed the SSP generations fund. Because of you, we're able to make a long term commitment to SSP fellowship, mentoring, and Dia programs.
Thank you for your compassion and your belief in our goal to create dedicated funding for these important programs. You are committed to growing strong leaders in our profession, and your support for the generations fund demonstrates this. Since launching the fund in 2020, when I was SSP president, 450 individuals and organizations have generously given. Thank you so much for helping us finish the fund.
As one of the founders of the fellowship program, I want you to know that your investment is really well placed. I've witnessed the fellowship and mentoring programs expand and create long lasting connections that allow each new generation to flourish. Our profession is only as strong as our next generation of professionals, and we've just made them a priority for the foreseeable future.
Researchers make knowledge. Scholarly communications professionals make knowledge powerful. So from all of us to all of you, thank you for making it possible to invest in the future of scholarly communications. Our collective philanthropy ensures a bright future for our profession.
We are stronger together. Because one more person I would like to recognize specifically with their work with the generations fund. Natalie zundel. Would you please join me on stage. Those of you that don't know Natalie because she works very much behind the scenes, you may not have had a personal encounter, but I guarantee you've had an email from her.
You've had a communication from her. She has worked tirelessly with us as a member of our team for the last five years, and the fund is the pinnacle of her work with us. So I'm really, really here to express deep gratitude to Natalie for her work and appreciation. So thank you, Natalie. Why don't you carry me.
All right. In recognition of the significant achievement in the 527 individuals and 40 organizations who have generously helped us finish the fund, I invite everyone at this point to pick up one of those checkered flags in the middle of your table. We're going to have a little fun. So grab your flag and we are going to do a finish line. Cheer out.
So I want you to be as loud as you possibly can. As you exit and find your way back to the exhibit Hall, and you'll have some committee members that have worked tirelessly on this generation fund endeavor as well. High fiving you on the way out. So thank you again so much. And I'm very happy that we've reached this milestone. Do you feel like a room without a roof.
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Don't you let go. All I wanted is to know. All you want is control of your future and your pastimes. I need you now. Hello and welcome to the awards luncheon and business meeting of the 47th annual meeting. We hope you're enjoying your lunch. We want you to continue to do so as we start the program today.
I want to begin with a well, first of all, I'm Melanie dolecek and I'm the executive director for SSP. If you didn't see me up here earlier and I want to start tonight with our today's program with land acknowledgment. We humbly acknowledge that we are meeting this week on the traditional and contemporary homelands of Indigenous people, including the Piscataway and the Susquehanna peoples.
We acknowledge that the systemic inequities that have impacted Indigenous intergenerational traumas and health disparities. We give thanks to the past, present, and future stewards of this land. And just briefly, I want to remind everyone about antitrust compliance. SSP is committed to complying with competition and antitrust laws. Please avoid any discussions of pricing, market allocation, boycotts, or other topics that could be interpreted as anti-competitive.
If such discussions arise, they shall be stopped immediately to protect both individual participants and the organizations. So, with some housekeeping out of the way, without further ado, I would like to introduce you all the SSP president, Heather Staines. We're doing better than last year. We don't have any hallway people.
If you weren't here last year, ask folks what that means because we definitely improvement. We welcome you all into one room. So good afternoon, everyone. I've struggled over the past weeks and months, even about speaking to you today how to give a speech during a time that seems only comparable to riding on a bucking Bronco, or trying to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel to come up with something to say that reflects both the gravitas of the occasion, but also is representative of me and the weirdo that you've come to expect.
No singing. How does one give a speech that is neither woe is us or the sun will come out tomorrow. Did we ever think that an SSP session would have to declare it was under Chatham House rules. Did we ever think that. I definitely did not. So what did I do. I kind of weighted the way I do for the universe to come to me and tell its remarks through me.
So you are going to hear a tale involving a few personal anecdotes, some history, some literature and a few fictional characters. Little could we have known a year ago or six months ago, even the uncertain and unprecedented situation we faced during these moments, at a time when the very foundation of what we believe in as scholarly publishers is under attack. I don't consider myself a natural optimist.
My family used to joke that our motto was things could only get worse, and our family crest was a person with their head in their hands. There's no time for that way of thinking now. I find myself having to dig deep. As Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen said in her April 16 scholarly kitchen post, it's a tough time to be a human, and I'd add an animal, vegetable, or mineral. We've overcome a lot in recent years.
The continuing shift to more openly available content, more ethical and transparent research, and onslaught of bad actors trying to game the system. We survived the early days of COVID to get to whatever you might choose to call this time now. And those of us who already worked remotely are still hard pressed to understand just how jarring that shift to remote was, as well as how tough it was for essential personnel who weren't able to make that zag and had to take risks on behalf of all of us.
As I've said many times before, I feel so for the early career professionals who started out their journeys during and in the aftermath of such tumultuous changes, I would say to them, we need you and your contributions. How can we instill in you the love that we all feel for this profession. What will it take to keep you. It has been one of the honors of my life to serve you as SSP president.
One of my activities in the past two years has been working on the SSP strategic plan and sitting on the diversity subgroup to help identify a few actionable areas where our committees and volunteers can take that pillar forward. This is an area that's very close to my heart. Some of you know that I grew up attending a public school system in Columbus, Ohio, during court ordered desegregation in the late 70s.
Our junior high school and our elementary school before that was predominantly minority, with a large African-American student base and a wide array of immigrants and first generation Americans from Southeast Asia, Ukraine, Armenia, and many countries across Southern and Eastern Europe. This meant, under that desegregation order, that our school was the recipient of students from a wealthier and much whiter district.
It was a fraught situation, with neither group wanting to be around the other. Some students were only attending our school for a year and would return to the high school. They had always expected to attend their neighborhood school, one where their siblings had gone, but most would have to stay with us and make new friendships and traditions. If we felt somehow invaded, they felt completely upended Excuse me.
I'm pleased to say that, for the most part, we made it work. And by the time we graduated five years later, you'd be hard pressed to figure out looking at who hung out with or who participated in what activities or sports, whether it was their original school or not. Last summer we celebrated our 40th high school reunion. So I date myself classmate after classmate classmate remarked how lucky we were to have been nurtured in that diverse environment, that somewhat unique laboratory that junior high and high school always are, and how jarring it had been for some upon entering the real world, whether work or college, to learn that things were different on the outside.
From my perspective, I feel strongly that however imperfect, we found the wider world knowing how things could be and being appalled that they weren't more inclusive and more equitable was better than never having experienced that example at all. I think about this now with the generation just leaving college, which includes my two boys. Their high school and college years, in addition to being disrupted by COVID, were marked by the social justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd some short five years ago.
With so many people, including their peers, taking to the streets and fighting for justice, there must have been a strong sense for them that things were moving in the right direction. How do they find subsequent developments, I wonder. Do they feel like the world has failed them. Do they feel like we failed them. Sorry as a historian, I'm not sure how I feel about the notion that the arc of history bends towards justice, referencing both the abolitionist minister Theodore Parker and later Doctor Martin Luther King jr. History is indelibly marked by leaps forward, followed by periods of harsh backlash.
Positive developments don't happen just as a matter of course. You have to fight for them, and you have to follow in the footsteps of the fighters who came before and undertook their fight in times that were objectively speaking, much, much bleaker than how these times appear to us. It always feels like it's the worst when it's happening to you.
Technology also marches on. We find ourselves in an AI maelstrom as new tools transform, but also threaten our industry for quite a while. I was something that was always coming, incrementally, slinking up on us in a way that we didn't always even recognize. As Uc Davis librarian Peter Brantley once said at a Charleston plenary that I moderated, something stops being when it no longer impresses us.
Then in November 2022, ChatGPT came along and its LLM Cousins seemed to be everywhere all at once. We attempt now not only to find instances of plagiarized text, but to try to identify texts created by one of these AI tools. Higher Ed is also questioning how to deal with teaching a population where AI is the calculator that we were all told in school we needed to get along with because it wasn't going to be in our pocket.
Typically, some students are being warned they aren't allowed to use AI at all, and so their use of it leaves them paralyzed, uncertain, and fearful. A recent New Yorker article by Graham Burnett. Will the humanities survive. Artificial intelligence looks at this strange new world. On campus, we are told many are pretending this revolution isn't happening, something Bennett describes as pointing at daisies along the train tracks as an actual locomotive screams up from behind.
A history in the. A scholar in the history of attention. Isn't that a great area. Maybe I should reinvent myself as a scholar of the history of inattention. But maybe all history is the history of that. In any case, Bennett attempted to flip the script, loading his 900 page course reader into an I instance and tasking his students with having a conversation with a chatbot about the history of attention.
The results were fascinating and inspiring and experienced. Bennett refers to as one of the most profound in his career. Like watching a new kind of creature being born, and also watching a generation come face to face with that birth. One student, exploring the emotional connection with music, asked the bot to write a song that would make him cry. Unsurprisingly, it failed. Another told Bennett that the assignment had for her felt like an existential watershed.
The machine was not a person, and in conversing with it, she found herself strangely liberated by not having any responsibility at all towards it. After the assignment, some students asked Bennett how they should choose what to do with their lives. If these machines could do so many things faster and better. Could get the answers, or seemingly so. But to be human is not to have the answers, he notes.
It is to have questions and to live with them. And this is indeed a time of many questions, so many shocks to the system of publishers, societies, universities, librarians, researchers, students, and all traveling. A few weeks ago to Canada to meet my second grandson, jet with two T's. Born on May 1, I found myself engrossed in an Atlantic article called history will judge the complicit by Anne Applebaum.
It turned out when I checked the date halfway through to have originally been published in July, August 2020. So always check the sources. People check those citations. However, it was still eerily relevant to our environment today. The bulk of the article looks at why people go along with things they don't agree with, why they collaborate in the French Vichy sense of the term, one that implies betrayal of one's values.
Appelbaum provides numerous reasons behind such decisions, ranging from ideological fervor to strictly personal gain. She visits a woman named Marianne birthler, who was an activist in the 1980s against the East German Communist regime. Why do people collaborate. Appelbaum asked, but birthler countered that the more interesting question was, why do people not collaborate in a time when it seems that so many areas of society are complying in advance, to put it kindly or rolling over.
To put it bluntly, it is an interesting question. Fear, of course, is a main reason for going against your moral values. But being afraid shouldn't obscure the fact that fear has consequences. That summer 2020 article noting denial of COVID and ongoing attempts at voter suppression acknowledged that worse could follow. From that point.
It largely loses its contemporary value to us as we know the next chapter. But the question still resonates how does one find the courage to stand up for values. Noting that for many, the risk of public action may be simply too high to pay. Activist birthler notes that the choice to become a dissident can easily be the result of a number of small decisions that you take, until one day you find yourself irrevocably on the other side.
This process often involves role models in this challenging time. I am not surprised by the actions of some dedicated public servants. The Alt national Park Service, which actively chronicles on social media, sometimes cryptically, what's happening in the wake of the executive orders, the Library of Congress and the US Copyright Office, which are currently also fighting back, refusing access to administration officials and filing suit for unlawful dismissal.
I can honestly say I am not surprised one bit that the park Rangers and the librarians are leading the charge. My sister and her husband were both park Rangers and of course, some of my best friends are librarians. I stand before you today, passing the presidential reins to Rebecca, not knowing the course of events will take in the coming year. I've known Rebecca for more than a decade, and I know that her deep experience and thoughtful consideration mean I'm leaving you in great hands.
SSP is a strong organization made sturdier by its varied membership that spans disciplines, types of organizations from many areas of the world and those from all career levels. Under Rebecca's leadership, SSP will continue to pursue equity and diversity. Because we know the way that my classmates and I and many before us learned directionally the way we know things must go. It is hard to be human and to ask those questions that distinguish us from the I approaching today, I questioned myself about this milestone in my life.
My personal SSP journey over the years has been both humbling and gratifying. I easily found a home here. Recent remarks by the commencement speaker at the University of Maryland. When Kermit the Frog. Yes, Jennifer Regala was there. She can fact check me, inspire me to reflect upon what SSP has done for me, what Sesame Street did for Kermit.
SSP helped me learn what I am good at, and provided me with an environment where I feel like I am always amongst friends. From this unique and precious community, we can gain courage and seek counsel, but not in an antitrust way. We must work with our key constituencies to create a sort of solid scholarly communications mutual Aid Society, recognizing that for very good reasons, we are not all at liberty to speak out or act up in the same manner.
But we must show up to quote retraction watch's Ivan oransky at a recent CS meeting referencing another cartoon character. Now is not the time to disappear Homer Simpson style into the hedge. The stakes are simply too high. Those who know me know I'm an avid reader of science fiction, in particular dystopian novels, and certainly it's not fun to find yourself trapped in one.
Have you ever wondered what you do when confronted with an existential crisis, like a zombie apocalypse or an alien invasion. It's OK if you have it. I said I was weird. I'm not a strong fighter, and really, as a diabetic, I wouldn't last long. Taking to the hills anyway. But when confronted with a war against knowledge, a campaign against science, an attack upon basic human decency and compassion, I think in this struggle, I must be a fighter in defense of our values and those who rely on their continued existence.
At the risk of adding a third cartoon character into the mix. The last one, I promise. Like Jessica Rabbit, who told the police inspector and who Framed Roger Rabbit, I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. I am no longer willing to sit idly by. I'm not drawn that way. To conclude, I'm discouraged but not dissuaded. I'm horrified, but not hopeless.
I have faith in US. I have faith in you. Thank you for putting your faith in me. Together we are SSP. Thank you.
Well, now for something very different. The treasurer's report. Woo hoo. Heather thank you. That was beautiful. Thank you. All right.
Yeah Really. This is way drier. So my name is Emily dalkey. I am the treasurer for SSP. This is my fifth year, and I'm here to just four minutes. I'll be quick, but to share with you. Oh, there we go. Some context around the numbers and the financial performance of SSP.
Again, this feels very odd. We need to change the order in the future. All right. So I'm going to share a very high level summary of what happened over the last three years, just to give some context. So that said, all the financials are available to SSP members at any time during the year. So if you have any questions, just don't hesitate to reach out to me.
So the last three years have started to bring back some of the usual patterns that we used to see before 2020. To all of our relief, as far as meanings and associations go. At the same time, SSP and the board made deliberate choices to put a greater emphasis on revenue diversification for SSP. So for context, to put these three years into a little bit more of just background around it.
In 2022, we hosted a modified annual meeting back in person in Chicago with a well-attended virtual option. That said, the stock market experience was really experienced a lot of volatility this year, and that actually reduced some of the gains that we had previously realized. And so it impacted our overall performance for 2022. As you can see for the numbers there in 2023, we were back to mostly normal conditions with a successful annual meeting.
We were in Portland. Attendance was still not quite back to what it used to be, but we were able to realize some savings to control our expenses, realize some savings because we were in Portland, and control a little bit of revenue by being creative with some of our offerings that year. Also, the stock market was performing strongly, and so the reserve in particular really benefited from that jump. Last year, 2020 for the annual meeting was in Boston, and we had nearly 1,000 people, 1,000 attendees.
So we were back to pre-pandemic level, which was really great to see. But being in Boston had a lot of advantages, but it also presented some challenges and some additional costs. At the same time, our educational programs and sponsorship was were a little bit softer than in the past. So you bring that plus actually the stock market that was last year performing strongly and did benefit our reserve.
So overall, we ended the year with in a strong position. So in summary, we feel like we entered 2025 in a good position overall. We have a strong reserve and we have exciting plans to maintain and expand some of the programming and events that we have. So as always, we've been able to make the best of all these changes and circumstances thanks to a lot of work from the committees, from the volunteers, from Melanie and from her team.
There's a lot that many of you contribute every day to the organization and to the health of the organization. So a big thank you for that. So like I said earlier, the financials are available to all SSP members. So don't hesitate to reach out to me at any point if you have any questions. That's it for the numbers. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Emily the success of SS or SSP success really sits on the shoulders of so many individuals and organizations, and we want to take a minute to recognize those folks now. So I want to say thank you to our sponsors. You can see their logos here on the screen. Let's give round of applause. And if you're with a sponsoring organization, please stand up.
There are many, many leaders of SSP that have contributed to the shaping of this organization and what it is now. So if you are a past president of SSP, please stand up.
Our committee and task force chairs are the leaders of this organization. That day in and day out are working to bring the programs, the education, the mentorship, all of these different things that we benefit from as an organization and as individuals. So if you are a committee or task force chair, please stand up.
And SSP has more than 300 individuals that volunteer to help support the activities of the organization. So if you serve on a committee or a task force, please stand up. Many of you are familiar with the scholarly kitchen, which is the most read publication in our industry, and I would like to acknowledge our editor executive editor, David Crotty.
Please stand up, David. Give us a wave. Not with us today is our associate editor, Diandra Roberts. And our newly appointed deputy editor, Lete Conrad. SSP also appoints the North American editor for learned publishing.
So, please, if you're here, Michelle, please stand up. Michelle urban is not with us today, but I would like to recognize her as well. Our outgoing associate editor, Angela Cochran. The strategic direction of the organization is firmly in the hands of our board of directors and our officers. So I like to acknowledge our officers Heather Staines, Rebecca McLeod, Emily delk and Randy Townsend.
Please stand up. And I'd also like to recognize our board members at large. Mike Dinatale, Yale Fitzpatrick, Hannah heckner Swain, Simon Holt, Judy Delaney, Mia, Richa Ricci, Damita, tau tau, and Simone Taylor. Please stand up.
And with that, I'm going to turn it back over to Heather. There's a lot of up and Downs in these things, so. We could not bring this meeting to you. And I know I've said this repeatedly up here, that we could not bring this meeting to you without an x, y, or z constituency, but we really could not bring this meeting to you without members of the SSP staff Jackie Lord, Susan Paton, Madeleine stone, Tracy Mitchell, Christian prewett, Natalie zundel and of course, Melanie dolecek.
We do have a few board members who are outgoing, although we never truly let them go, as you know. So I would like to invite our outgoing board members to join us on stage. Michael Dinatale. No you can.
You can all get up, Hannah. You can wait over there. It's fine. Now, there's a little choreography that has to happen here. So I'm getting in trouble because I skipped the rehearsal. Oh, wow La.
Towel, towel. Who was not able to join us today. But we'll make sure she gets her award. And Randy and tau. Tao? yes. And Randy Townsend. From up above. I feel it coursing through my blood.
Life is a dream. Your life's about to make the stars collide. I thank you, Randy. I think everybody should get a plaque, don't you You guys, did you get a plaque. You get a plaque. It's also my pleasure to introduce the incoming Board members at large.
And I would like to invite them to come to the stage. Yes OK. Sorry I'm in such big trouble. They're never going to ask me to do this again. Beth cannon, Director of editorial operations, American Physical Society. Willa Liburd Tavernier. Research and impact and open scholarship librarian, Indiana University.
Tim Lloyd, CEO, leblancs. Are you OK. Jennifer Regala, associate director of publishing, Wolters Kluwer health. And last but not least, our President-elect, Damita snow. I know it's the truth without reason or rhyme.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If it's working, I'm just kidding. Go on and. Throw it down street. Don't miss it. You already punched your ticket. And now you've probably already met her already. But I would like to introduce Rebecca McLeod, our incoming president. Rebecca I have for Rebecca a beautiful engraved gavel with her.
And ask her later to show it to you. Ooh should we do the picture here. Oh thank you. Well, here. We got to take a picture. Oh, well, we never will. Oh, sorry each day it is retrieved. Seems like yesterday. So I want to thank Heather for her wonderful year of service.
I know she's still staying on the board as an immediate past president, but thank you very much. And I've got big shoes to fill between this wonderful emotional speech. I don't God. Anyway, thank you so much. And I know that we'll still have you on the board. So we're lucky to have you and just thank you for everything. I got big shoes to fill, guys, so give another round of applause.
Whoops it's backward. Is that right. OK I don't know. Yeah is that your gavel. What do you say. Now we got it. All right, I don't have. Melanie only gave me a few minutes. I'll talk fast.
Got to find my notes. Hi, everybody. I'm Rebecca McLeod, if I'm sure but in case you don't. And my day job, I am the managing director at Harvard Data Science initiative. And I'm deeply honored and excited to serve as your next president of SSP. Now, I think the first annual meeting I attended was back in 2000.
I bet some of you weren't even born yet when my then boss, Janet Fisher, was SSP president, but I wasn't fully engaged until maybe a few years later. But since then, SSP has played an instrumental role in my career journey, especially during my mid-career years. So I'm forever grateful for the professional opportunities and friendships that have come about through my involvement at SSP. So when I was first elected, several people asked ask me what was my platform going to be.
What was my theme going to be as president. Randy focused on mental health awareness, and Heather's term emphasized the supporting early career professionals. I had a few ideas brewing, but then events in Washington unfolded and executive orders were issued. So now I feel like I will be serving as your wartime SSP president.
And I don't mean this. Right Yes. And I'm not trying to be funny, but I mean, we're under attack. So as your wartime president, I pledge that despite all the chaos, uncertainty, upheaval, SSP will keep calm and carry on. We will.
We will continue to support our members, stay true to our core values of community, inclusivity, adaptability and integrity, and remain unwavering in our commitment to Dia, one of our strategic goals. All right. One of our strategic goals is to make SSP a home for scholarly communication professionals at every career level.
So no matter what happens out there, we will remain a safe harbor for our members to network, disseminate information, foster new developments, commiserate if necessary, plan counter attacks in the war room. We will provide whatever is needed in the coming year. I have some ideas I'm thinking I'm percolating that might support our members in this challenging year, but I'll share that later. But for now, please know that along with outstanding board of directors and the excellent SSP staff led by Melanie, will be weathering the storm with you.
So just an aside, I love old movies. People who know me know that. So I mean old I mean old like 1930s and 40s. Not the 80s like my kids think. So I can't resist from borrowing a line from one of my favorite old actresses in front of my favorite movies, which is, we're going to fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy year, but we'll get through it together.
And I think have some fun along the way. So again, I look. So look forward to serving you this coming year. Please don't hesitate to reach out. I want to hear your suggestions, questions, concerns, anything. I'd love to hear from you. So thank you again. Thank you, Mr. Varma.
Whoops I'm sorry, I meant to introduce our lovely past president, Brandi Townsend back to the stage. She's going to talk about the Awards Committee, the awards. Sorry about that, Randy. I call him preacher Townsend, by the way, because of his great speaking skills. Thank you.
Rebecca preacher. Randy that's funny. All right, so at this time, I'd like to recognize the members of the career development committee, working group members for management of the highly competitive SSP fellowship award program. Please stand when I call your name. Michelle English. Tricia Miller.
Sharon Louise. Russell Sarah woolever. Emily Brown and Emily Mueller. Please give them a round of applause. Somebody asked me if I was an official member of that committee because I'm always at their meetings. Honestly, I don't think that I am.
But nobody had the heart to kick me out, so I just kept showing up. The fellowship program is so important. I gained so much by serving as a mentor. And for those of you who are mentors, thank you. And now I'd like to recognize the 2025 fellowship winners. Please join me on stage when I call your name. Eleanora Consuelo.
Colangelo sorry about that. Molly Hurst. Sighting Mikayla. Lee Anna. Lewis Julie. Julia Mullen.
Kare Nilsen. Nasim no. Sakari fukunaga. My mentee. Omar Rando. Omorodion OK, gang. Take me away.
Rachel riff. Albright Amanda Rogers. And Constantine sing. You gotta take me there. Please give him another warm round of applause.
Thank you. Thank you. Now you see. Oh, great. Now, I'd like to give my sincerest thanks to the members of the nominating and Awards Committee. Please stand when I call your name.
Hannah Hector. Swain swaying. Rebecca McLeod. Teodoro pulvirenti. Anne stone.
And die. Liaison, Shayna Lange. They answered my call, and I'm so grateful for the thought, respect, and continued support they gave throughout this year's nominations and awards process. It's a pleasure working with all of you. Now let's give out some awards.
Our first awards are the SSP appreciation awards. This award, created in 2003, recognizes the work of one or more members whose work over a short term has benefited SSP and the scholarly communications field. We have three recipients of the appreciation award this year. Please join me on stage when I call your name. Sean Pidgeon.
Erin Foley. I don't believe this. And Stephanie Lovegrove. Hansen just. Say I don't know where you're going.
So I stay. Stay so I stay. Stay push me away. Congratulations push me away. MS me away.
I always stay, I always stay. Push me away. Push me away. But I always stay I always stay and push me away. Push me away. Our next award is the SSP emerging Leader Award. Established in 2012, this award recognizes SSP and SSB member working in scholarly communications field for eight years or fewer who has demonstrated their potential through outstanding service and contribution on an SSP committee or task force, and has made innovative contributions to their field.
This year, the emerging Leader Award is being presented to two outstanding individuals and selecting recipients for this award. We were very focused on the importance of our future leaders, representing our core values of community, inclusivity, adaptability and integrity in all that they do. And I'm happy to say these recipients live these values. This year's emerging Leader Award recipients are cassia and Jenny Herbert.
Please join me on stage. Jenny wasn't able to join us. Thank you. All my love by where we belong is me. To survive, I ain't going to stop for anyone.
Congratulations I'm a hero. My hero, Nelson Mandela said a good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. These words remind me of the recipient of our final award. 18 years ago, she joined SSP and volunteered for the annual planning committee. Her contributions have faithfully guided our community through countless challenges and celebrations, providing calm, measured leadership, honesty, integrity, character, and humor.
She's the person you want in the room when you're having the tough conversations or walking with you when you're not even sure where you're going. It's my honor to present the 2025 Distinguished Service Award to Emily delk. She didn't know.
It could be anything. If you don't let go, you got the music in me. I knew that this is where I started. You come with me around. You got a reason to. Be here 4:00 AM we run a Miracle Mile. We're flat broke. But, hey, we do it in style.
Thank you. Rich kids flying in for a drive by. But when the night is falling, you can't afford. SSP, as an organization, is committed to leadership and workforce development and ensuring those leaders and our workforce are diverse and inclusive. That's why we launched the generations fund.
And today, I'm thrilled to share with you that we have finished fundraising for the generations fund. Allowing us to invest in our fellowship, mentoring, and Dia programs for the foreseeable future. One of the ways in which you have helped to finish this generations fund is by registering to participate in SSPs fourth annual virtual 5K run, walk and roll and there's still time to register to participate before the official race day of June 7.
So visit the SSP booth in the exhibit Hall and get your official race t-shirt. So far, we have more than 100 participants in this year's five-k. We challenge organizations to see which could register the most participants in the five-k. The competition ended this morning right before this event started, and I'm excited to announce that 2025 greatest of all teams.
This year we have two categories small but mighty for organizations under 50 full time employees and super sized and energized for larger organizations. I'd like to announce the winners of both categories and ask them to come on to the stage to receive their goat a trophies, bragging rights, and to take a photo. So drum roll for small but mighty hum. Come to the stage.
Come on. Anybody Bourbon. No harm. No one from hum here. They're on a run. They're running right now. OK, we'll save it for the Super sized and energized. It's the fire dogs.
Did I pronounce that right. Dogs are they here. Are they here. They're not here either they're running. Come on down. They just. They just wanted the long walk to the stage.
Congratulations yes. So today, I have the honor of recognizing our generous supporters. Behind me on the slide is our list of individual supporters. I mean, have to go up there with a magnifying glass. But anyway, to date, more than 500 of our members have pooled their generosity together to make this initiative possible.
So give round of applause to all of you. 500 of you. So I would like to invite our 1,000 plus donors and our finish the line monthly donors to the stage to collect a certificate to recognize their outstanding contributions. And these people knew who they were, right. They were notified, I believe. So if you were notified, come to this.
What OK oh. Here Wait a minute. Am I reading their name. I'm sorry. I'm watching the wrong script. OK, so Ryan Brathwaite, is that one. That one. OK Ryan Brathwaite, Todd Carpenter, Angela Cochran, October ivens, Byron.
Laws, Alice. Meadows, William. Wakeling, Susan and Richard Kestner, Alison. Muttitt, Jennifer. Jean and Mark. Shipman, Madeleine. Sutton, Ted. Backman, ginger. Beattie, Ginny.
Ginny Herbert. Marie-jose Ibarra, Bill. Kasdorf, Heather. Catallo, Rebecca McLeod, Alice. Meadows, Christine or Meredith. Pond, Andrew. Scooty scooter and then. Heather right now.
While we try to ask what is pouring in like you always should have been. We can crawl or we can run towards the sunlight as though we've just begun. We keep going till we've won. We could crawl or we could run towards the sun.
During these individuals are some outstanding industry supporters to today. I would like to recognize these organizations by calling them to the stage to accept a certificate of gratitude for their impactful support of $1,000 or more. I'm going to call the organizations to the stage as a group, and then we'll at the end, we'll give everyone round of applause.
So please hold your applause until the end. So first is our patron level supporters of $1,000 access innovations. American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, apex co advantage, Aries systems, cactus communications, Cadmore media, Clark and Esposito, clerks, Crossref, emerald publishing, frontiers, impact journals, pariah dogs, Lumina data metrics, newgen, North America, openathens, Royal Society of chemistry.
Spi, strave and virtuous tales publishing solutions. Yeah let's give him round of applause. Oh, she is in our lives. I've got to keep this right Follow her tonight. To this.
What you looking for. She's all alone. She's all alone Follow her tonight. You looking for. Looking for. Looking for Cause she's all alone. She's all alone.
She'll be with me. I know she's my true love. I've got to keep this place down. See what's up this way. She's in her life. I've got to keep this right.
OK, next up, I would like to call our contributor level supporters of 5,000 or more to the stage. So starting off drum roll. American Chemical Society. American Geophysical Union. American psychology. American Psychological Association. Atypon cables and cell press. Elsevier delta.
Think highwire. Lib links. Mdpi plus research solutions. Silverchair Taylor and Francis and Wolters Kluwer health. You make me don't want to mess you up lately. You got me foreign straight through the roof. Oh, I can't get you off my mind. I think that it's all right Cause looking back I'm falling in love with you every single night.
That feeling, right. Where everything is fine. Just fine. She's falling in love with you in the summertime. She's falling in love with you in the summertime. Well, I guess I'm facing the truth that you find me one.
You got that look in your eyes like a loaded gun in a place in the time that I never was. It's all because I'm coming undone. Oh I can't get you off my mind. But I think that it's all right. So last but not least, I would like to recognize our promoter level supporters at the $15,000 and up gifts.
Starting off with copyright Clearance Center, knowledge works global, Springer Nature, and Wiley. Wanted to could you carry me back into your heart again. Could you carry me right into your destined hands. Could you carry me right back where we started from.
Could you carry me all alone and on and on and on and on and on and on. Could you carry me back to where we started from. Remember when we would dance all night. All right. We'd like to thank all of our donors, no matter how large or small their donations. Every single penny counted towards this enormous, ambitious goal that we had to continue to be able to fund our fellowship, mentorship and DEI programs into the future.
And we have a wonderful compilation video to show you now to hear from some of our donors and supporters in this endeavor. Wrong video. Hello, I'm Wayne Sai, Chief executive of the Association of learned and professional society publishers.
We'll try it again. You'll get to see that video tomorrow. On behalf of SSP, we want to take a moment to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your generous support has completed the SSP generations fund. Because of you, we're able to make a long term commitment to SSP fellowship, mentoring, and Dia programs.
Thank you for your compassion and your belief in our goal to create dedicated funding for these important programs. You are committed to growing strong leaders in our profession, and your support for the generations fund demonstrates this. Since launching the fund in 2020, when I was SSP president, 450 individuals and organizations have generously given. Thank you so much for helping us finish the fund.
As one of the founders of the fellowship program, I want you to know that your investment is really well placed. I've witnessed the fellowship and mentoring programs expand and create long lasting connections that allow each new generation to flourish. Our profession is only as strong as our next generation of professionals, and we've just made them a priority for the foreseeable future.
Researchers make knowledge. Scholarly communications professionals make knowledge powerful. So from all of us to all of you, thank you for making it possible to invest in the future of scholarly communications. Our collective philanthropy ensures a bright future for our profession.
We are stronger together. Because one more person I would like to recognize specifically with their work with the generations fund. Natalie zundel. Would you please join me on stage. Those of you that don't know Natalie because she works very much behind the scenes, you may not have had a personal encounter, but I guarantee you've had an email from her.
You've had a communication from her. She has worked tirelessly with us as a member of our team for the last five years, and the fund is the pinnacle of her work with us. So I'm really, really here to express deep gratitude to Natalie for her work and appreciation. So thank you, Natalie. Why don't you carry me.
All right. In recognition of the significant achievement in the 527 individuals and 40 organizations who have generously helped us finish the fund, I invite everyone at this point to pick up one of those checkered flags in the middle of your table. We're going to have a little fun. So grab your flag and we are going to do a finish line. Cheer out.
So I want you to be as loud as you possibly can. As you exit and find your way back to the exhibit Hall, and you'll have some committee members that have worked tirelessly on this generation fund endeavor as well. High fiving you on the way out. So thank you again so much. And I'm very happy that we've reached this milestone. Do you feel like a room without a roof.
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Yeah, well, I should probably warn you. I'll be just fine. Yeah, no offense to you. Don't waste your time. Here's why. Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Cause I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.
Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you. Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you want to do. Hey good. Bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down. Your love is too high. Bring me down.
Can't nothing bring me down I said tell you now to bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down. Your love is too high to bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down I said cause I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you Cause I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you want to do.
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