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Mark Doty wins National Book Award
Last night Mark Doty won the National Book Award for his Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems. Doty has a long history with the University of Illinois Press. In […]
DigiPubliLibrariNation
In the November 21 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard discusses the emerging role of the scholarly communications specialist on campus. More institutions are creating or beefing up […]
Just another autumn day at our nation’s Capitol
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Cheryl Ganz interviewed on Book Guys
On Tuesday, November 18, Cheryl Ganz (The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair) was interviewed for a future segment on the syndicated Book Guys radio program. […]
A Pedagogy of Questioning
The production editors in the Journals Department at UIP occasionally get to work with the famous as well as the thoughtful, and I couldn’t help but notice that among the […]
A random walk down university press row
-Penn State U. Press has added new preview and sales services to its website. -Oxford University Press Blog discusses slow blogging. -Harvard University Press blog tells us how to say goodbye in […]
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 […]
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The Adventures of Book Signing by Cheryl Ganz
Cheryl Ganz is author of the new book The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress. She will sign copies at the Old Orchard Barnes & Noble in Skokie on […]
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 […]
William McKee Evans on “Open Wound” and the election
Following the election last week I contacted William McKee Evans, author of the forthcoming book Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America, to ask how Obama’s victory impacts the thesis of his […]