Goodbye, Brittany!
Today many of us are saying goodbye to our Marketing Department Intern, Brittany Pyle. Over the past year she’s made herself a valuable member of our team, and cheerfully completed any […]
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Experience our “French Roots”
The Champaign Public Library is hosting an event this evening that looks like fun: “Ethnic Illinois: French Traditions in Music and Food:” Dennis Stroughmatt, an authority on French Creole music, […]
For a banal Friday afternoon
This morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Report features “A Tradition of Banality” by Don Troop. (Warning: CHE‘s links are walled after a few days.) The “Banality” refers to the […]
Washington Post’s Book World on the cutting block?
Scott McLemee at Intellectual Affairs posted earlier today that the Washington Post‘s section “Book World” might cease due to budget cuts. I love the argument that sports sections aren’t sponsored […]
What is the value of a library?
Paula Kaufman, Dean of the University of Illinois Libraries, measures the ROI of the University of Illinois libraries based on grants received by the University written with references to university […]
Pay for books? Seriously?
One of the things I love about living in Champaign-Urbana is the prominence of books in our culture. In addition to the U of I libraries, we have three public […]
Whatis WorldCat?
This morning’s Inside Higher Ed features a short article on a “new” WorldCat policy that requires organizations displaying WorldCat records to attach what amounts to a “terms and conditions” contract […]
Library exhibit
The UIUC libraries have generously allowed the University of Illinois Press to close our 90th anniversary celebrations with an exhibit in the Main North-South Hallway of the Main Library. The […]
Studs Terkel
I was out of town for the weekend, and so did not see the news that Studs Terkel died until this morning. About five years ago I saw him engaged […]
Nobody wants to take the last one
All summer long several of our colleagues have shared lovely produce, most especially sweet grape tomatoes. So much produce was shared that some of it has sat for days abandoned […]
Monday Morning
Sometimes day-to-day drudgery buries the idealism that likely lead to one’s choice to “work with books” (my only stated goal 10+ years ago) and for a university press. A passing, […]
eBooks in a digital Utopia
Mitch Ratcliffe on the ZDNet blog highlights some of the initial problems many see with nascent ebooks. He ties the lack of a standard accepted digital format (with ePub on […]