Kate McCready (she/her/hers) is the Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing at the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In this role, Kate is leading the development of a vision for a multifaceted, sustainable course of action to strengthen academy-owned publishing for the BTAA. This work is part of the development of the Library Initiatives’ BIG Collection, which aims to manage the separate collections of the Big Ten university libraries as a single collection. Her home institution, where she has served in a variety of roles including the interim associate university librarian for collections, director of content services, and publishing services librarian, is the University of Minnesota Libraries.