Rob Buchanan is the sales coordinator in the marketing department. For the last couple of years I have gone on a fishing trip to Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota the week of Labor Day. My friends and I … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Pear cake, anyone?
Growing local, farm-to-table, Lo-Lo, locavore…local is where it’s at! Locally sourced, locally available, everything within reach of where it came from, nothing shipped half way around the world – these sentiments dominate a lot of the dinner table conversation at … Continue reading Doc Martyn’s Soul: A Farmer’s Market for the Book World
Originally posted on the Indiana University Press blog on Sept. 23, 2014. We were pleased to host University of Nebraska Press employee Emily Giller last week for her AAUP residency! This program is designed to give staff at AAUP member presses the opportunity to refine or learn new skills and procedures from colleagues who are strong in a particular area or have developed innovative programs. She shares her experience in this blog post. I have never been to Indiana before. I’ve never had a reason to visit. So, I was excited that my first visit to Indiana involved spending three days … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: A Husker in Hoosier Nation
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is the Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. In addition to Rolling in Ditches with Shamans, she has written or edited a dozen other books. Below she discusses why … Continue reading From the desk of Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
The AAUP membership list includes which presses have social media accounts: blog, Facebook, Twitter (the usual suspects). In an industry where so much depends on an online presence to succeed, it’s encouraging that most member presses are engaging with their community on social media platforms. We are all aware of those “usual suspects” but one of the many questions that we should be asking ourselves is “what’s next?” A handful of UPs have taken on Instagram (one of my personal favorites), YouTube, LinkedIn, and Tumblr, but the next big thing in social media will come along and we will have … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: University Presses and the Questions of Social Media
I recently had the pleasure of having a young woman, Olivia, a junior at Southeast High School here in Lincoln, shadow me for a day. I felt a little sorry for her since much of my day is spent writing … Continue reading The Director Dish: A Day in Book Publishing
Diane Glancy is an emerita professor of English at Macalester College and is currently a professor at Azusa Pacific University in California. Her new book Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education is now available. Fort Marion Prisoners and … Continue reading From the desk of Diane Glancy
When “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a … Continue reading George Takei on Solider of Change
Erica Corwin is the Electronic Marketing Coordinator at UNP. I wanted to pass along great pictures as a follow up to my Hanging Basket Grow Kit post but unfortunately the seeds barely sprouted and the squirrels helped themselves to the growing … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Recipes from the Good Ol’ Days
LLyn De Danaan is a writer and an anthropologist. She contributed to the book Vashon Island Archaeology: A View from Burton Acres Shell Midden, and her articles have appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, and Oregon … Continue reading From the desk of LLyn De Danaan: The Tale behind Katie Gale
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