Next week, the Association of American University Presses will celebrate University
Press Week from Nov. 11-17. This week started back in the summer of 1978 when President
Jimmy Carter proclaimed a University Press Week “in recognition of the impact,
both here and abroad, of American university presses on culture and
scholarship.”

In the spirit
of collaboration that pervades the university press community, Indiana
University Press and 24 other presses will come together for a blog tour during
University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of university presses
and the contributions they make to scholarship and our society. Bloggers
include authors, book review editors, university press staff members, interns, booksellers,
and university press advocates, most notably Bruce J. Miller and Ned
Stuckey-French, who led a successful social media campaign to save the
University of Missouri Press.

Harvard
University Press kicks off the tour on Monday, Nov.12, and it continues
coast-to-coast with stops in Canada and Hawaii before ending on Friday,
Nov. 16, at Oregon State University Press. The tour comes to UNP’s
blog on Thursday, Nov. 14, with a post from our acquisitions department. 

Download
a complete University Press Week blog tour schedule here.

In addition to
the blog tour, the AAUP and other member presses are planning several features
and events for University Press Week. For more information, visit www.universitypressweek.org.