As one of the last sessions of the SLA 2025 Annual Conference, Industry Partners capped off a weekend of highly successful PAMily content. The theme, “Publishers and The Evolving Scholarly Ecosystem”, was developed in concert by moderators Sandy Avila (SPIE Publishing) and Emma Moore (Institute for Advanced Study). They were fortunate to recruit a great panel of speakers: Kivmars Bowling, of SIAM; Ruth Esehak-Gillespie of APS; Susan Pastore, of AIP; and Tyler Kane, of AMS. The session itself was structured around three main themes: Responsibility, Credibility, Sustainability. There was a great mix of prompts from the moderators, questions from the audience, and riffing between the panelists themselves. Like many sessions at Annual, a critical approach to the opportunities and pitfalls of LLMS and AI was threaded through the discussion. Each panelist discussed both what their organizations were doing internally to maintain credibility in particular, as well as industry-wide partnerships and initiatives. The last part of the session, called Quo Vadis?, discussed the future state of SLA and the PAM Community, as well as the potential embodied in the proposed merger with ASIS&T.
Emma Moore & Sandy Avila
PAM Industry Partners Roundtable Moderators
PAM Bulletin 