Happy University Press Week 2019! Continue the blog tour by visiting these great university press offerings that illuminate the role of university presses in moving national and international conversations forward on critical and complex issues:
- Athabasca University Press shares three books that offer tools for building and sustaining community.
- Columbia University Press reviews eight titles about New York City communities.
- Georgetown University Press explores their new mission statement and the importance of local and global communities of readers.
- Johns Hopkins University Press writes about Lawrence Brown’s forthcoming The Black Butterfly: Why We Must Make Black Neighborhoods Matter and considers how scholarly publishing can be a form of activism.
- MIT Press talks about how the MIT Press Bookstore uniquely sits at the intersection of publishing, scholarship, authors, and community.
- Princeton University Press highlights some of the new ways Princeton University Press has focused on community building.
- Syracuse University Press features a guest post from Sean Kirst, the bestselling author of The Soul of Central New York.
- Temple University Press showcases their new book, Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia, and how it fostered community building.
- University of Michigan Press posts on how they have been creating and developing community around digital humanities scholarship which needs engagement from authors, readers, publishers, and libraries.
- University of Nebraska Press author Katya Cengel writes on how learning & telling the stories of others can build community.
- University of North Carolina Press hosts a Q&A with Lana Dee Povitz, author of Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice.
- University of Toronto Press discusses building a community for the Journal of Scholarly Publishing as part of its 50th anniversary.
- University Press of Kansas describes working with local companies to increase awareness of the press and support independent breweries, bookstores, shops and a new literary festival.
- Vanderbilt University Press looks at a local organization that they are partnering with—the Nashville Adult Literacy Council—and the ways it actively builds a community of learners and volunteers.