WTVP, the PBS affiliate in the Bloomington-Peoria corridor of central Illinois, will air an hour long program titled Lincoln and Douglas at Galesburg—The Great Debate at 8:10 p.m., Thursday, September […]
Over at The Scholarly Kitchen, Kent Anderson writes about the recent Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable on new media practices central to the future of publishing. One of […]
PW Daily reports this morning that Sports Publishing LLC, based in our hometown, has had financial difficulties lately and is being sold to a Chicago company. […]
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The August 9, 2008, edition of The Irish Times reviewed Maria Pramaggiore’s contribution to our Contemporary Film Directors series, Neil Jordan, in conjunction with a new book about the director […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this morning that some in the university press community are concerned about a recent downward trend in textbook sales. “‘I am hearing more and more complaints […]
Andrew Smith, author of the University of Illinois Press book Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea, is quoted in today’s Chicago Tribune on the economics of American kids’ favorite […]
On my way to Denver on Tuesday, August 26, I talked to all kinds of excited folk headed to the Democratic National Convention—two sisters from Oakland who got here guerilla […]
Last week’s Library Journal Academic Newswire reported the recently released results of Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education. “Faculty researchers increasingly prefer electronic resources, and most […]
My latest Amazon purchase (burning a Coinstar gift coupon) included three CDs, all released in 2007 or 2008. I could have downloaded the MP3 version more cheaply, but surprisingly I also […]
David Zalaznik, author of the forthcoming photography collection Life along the Illinois River, will sign copies of his book at the Peoria Art Guild on Friday, November 7, 2008, 4:00-7:00 p.m. See […]
John Carroll, author of the University of Illinois Press book Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football, will be a 4:00 p.m. featured speaker at “A Celebration of Red […]