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The article interviews several college librarians in the U.S. including Robert L. Butterfield, Kendra Lake and Adriana Poo. Topics include the impact of textbook costs on student equity, the role of academic libraries in supporting Open Educational Resources (OER), and innovative library-led affordability initiatives.

An introduction to articles published in this issue is presented including a community of practice model at the State University of New York for system-wide accessibility, Temple University Libraries' efforts to make collections more inclusive and analysis of the evolution of diversity and inclusion language in cataloging since the 1990s.

An interview is presented with Cindy Hohl, American Library Association's (ALA) president, discussing the impact of book challenges on library collection development. Topics include the role of libraries in supporting First Amendment rights and providing diverse access to information, policies in place to protect inclusive practices despite rising book challenges, and the defense of librarians as trusted community professionals in the face of increased censorship and accusations.

The article presents an interview with Rachel E. Scott, Associate Dean for Information Assets at Illinois State University (ISU) exploring her innovative, social-sciences focused open access (OA) agreement, emphasizing partnership in OA publishing. Topics include the significance of OA for societal impact, the tailored approach to OA agreements, and the focus on humanities and social sciences to support researchers with limited funding.

Many librarians find it difficult to compile information about perpetual access to their e-journals because it may be scattered across numerous license agreements. Rather than creating and maintaining a database for perpetual access information that is separate from the order records and holdings information found in integrated library systems (ILS), the University of Memphis is using Innovative Interfaces' Sierra ILS. By leveraging fixed and variable-length fields to record perpetual access information, we can perform queries and generate reports that are helpful in making collection development and preservation decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]