Today’s post is from Breanne: The Urban Simulation Team in the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA employs real-time visual simulation technology to recreate scenes from The World’s Columbian […]
Category: miscellaneous
Wanted: Graveyard Support Vampire
Where would we be without IT? I’ll admit to remembering a time Before IT, when youngsters armed with English degrees (ahem) were allowed to scamper in on Saturdays to run […]
Farewell, Rebecca
Friday, August 1, was Managing Editor Rebecca Crist’s last day at the University of Illinois Press. Best wishes. I’ll miss talking with you about local music shows as we pass in the […]
Wait, I didn’t know I was opening for Jethro Tull
PW Daily’s Book Maven blog points the way to the recent essay in the New York Times Book Review on book tours and speakers bureaus. “In recent years, a growing number of […]
“Fun in the fridge” by Denise
Today’s Chicago Tribune features a very funny article, “Who Moved My Cheese,” with a related link, “Top 10 fridge complaints.” Since I qualify as a “vigilante,” I thought I’d take a […]
Gift card
Last week I finally used a local independent bookstore birthday gift card that I had received in May. Last year I was excited to use a similar gift card on a Steve […]
OAR bloggers
Who knew that the University’s Office of Admissions and Records had a blogging crew? Jaime’s blog includes a picture of John Philip Sousa’s birth home and some words about a […]
243 friends by the 4th of July
Awesome. In just two days my Goodreads friend count has tripled. At this pace I’ll have 243 friends by the 4th of July. We’re still working out who will be the […]
Bees: the original social networkers?
Let accidents happen and be more like bees, according to The Digitalist: [H]uman teams are inherently weak but . . . nature’s teams (bumble bees, termites etc) display characteristics that […]
University of Michigan Press to sever ties with Pluto
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that the University of Michigan Press will end its distribution relationship with Pluto Press by the end of this year following controversy over the book […]
Rain, rain go away…
The Printers Row Book Fair is a great event. On two days in early June we display our new trade books, plus books with a Chicago focus, and sell directly to the consumer. It’s rare that […]
Obama the new John Mercer Langston?
The June 7, 2008, edition of the Washington Post included a piece titled The ‘Obama Before Obama,’ which highlights the life of 19th-century black leader John Mercer Langston and interviews […]