Holdings University Press University Press Board Production Records Finding Aid Title: Production Records, 1961-2020
ID: 38/1/2
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Press
Extent: 32.0 cubic feet
Arrangement:
Alphabetical by author/editor surname. In cases where the text is an edited work by another author, the name of the original author is used. However, for publications that contain compilations of different authors' works, the name of the editor/compiler is used.
For example, Letters of Eugene V. Debs (1991), edited by Robert Constantine, can be found under "Debs".
And Immingrant Voices (2014), edited by Thomas Dublin, contains chapters written by multiple individuals and can be found filed under "Dublin".
Production records of the University of Illinois Press (1961-2020) include contracts, correspondence (authors, reviewers, the public), cost projections/decisions, design information, permission forms, reviews, schedules, specifications, and status documents. Each individual file documents the stages of publication from acquisition, project development, peer review, and contracting through copyediting, production, and print status.
Note: This series represents a sampling of these files; not every title published by the Press is represented.
The University of Illinois Press was organized in 1918 to have charge of the work of editing, printing, and distributing the publications of the University.1 The Press is a general university division whose chief administrative officer is the Director of the University Press.2 The Director is appointed annually by the Board of Trustees,3 and is responsible to the University President through the office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.4 The operations and policies of the Press are maintained under advisement of a University Press Board composed of the Director, the Deans of the Graduate Colleges or their representatives, and six appointed faculty members.5. The Press published works of interest primarily to the scholarly reader, although works intended for the more general reader are also published.6 Priority is given to local manuscripts, but works produced at other institutions without presses are not excluded from consideration.7 Although the Press attempts to show a modest profit, it is not primarily a profit-making institution and receives subsidies from the Graduate College as well as from some foundations.8 The University of Illinois Press has sales representatives in Canada, the British Isles and Continental Europe, Latin America, and Japan.9
1. Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois, (Urbana, 1920), p. 285.
2. University of Illinois Statutes, July 18, 1989, p. 12.
3. Ibid.
4. University of Illinois Student/Staff Directory, 1990-91, p. 55
5. University of Illinois Statutes.
6. The Book Publishing Program of the University of Illinois Press (informational pamphlet for faculty members), 1957, pp. 4-5.
7. Ibid., pp. 5-6.
8. Ibid., pp. 7-8.
9. University of Illinois Press--Spring and Summer Books, 1972 (catalog).
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Acquisition Source: University of Illinois Press
Acquisition Method: Direct transfer from unit of origin.
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3801002.pdf
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