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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 18, 1967
New University Press of Kansas to be founded here Nov. 16
The new University Press of Kansas will be officially founded Nov. 16 in ceremonies at the Kansas Union, John P. Dessauer, director, has announced.
Highlights of the ceremonies will be the 14th Annual Public Lecture on books and Bibliography of the KU Libraries, co-sponsor of the ceremonies. Roger W. Shugg, director of the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, will fill the lectureship. He will discuss scholarly book publishing at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
"One of the real problems faced by university presses," Dessauer said, "is the ambivalence of our position.
"We have to find a way to utilize the best techniques of commercial publishing, while remaining of service to scholarship and the educational process in the academic community," he continued. "Shugg will be dealing with this ambivalence and some possible answers to it in his lecture."
Swift to speak
The speaker at an evening dinner meeting in the Union will be George W. Swift, associate dean of the Graduate School for the University. The Press' board of trustees, who are the three academic vice-presidents of the sponsoring universities, will be represented by John Lott Brown, Kansas State University.
Bruce Cutler, member of the English faculty at Wichita State University and a well-known midwestern poet, will represent the faculty author at the dinner meeting. He is vice-chairman of the faculty editorial committee of the Press from Wichita.
Two representatives of the Association of American University Presses will speak, according to Dessauer. They are Miodrag Muntyan, president of the association and director of the University of Illinois Press; and Thomas Lloyd, executive director.
Final speaker of the evening will be Dessauer. Thomas R. Buckman, director of the University of Kansas Libraries, will preside.
Dessauer said that the Midwest University Press Directors will be present for the founding day activities and will hold meetings the following day in Lawrence.
Expect 100 persons
More than 100 persons involved in publishing, news media and historical work throughout the state have been invited to the dinner meeting.
Shugg, who earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, has been a research fellow in the social sciences at the London School of Economics and a historian for the U.S. War Department General Staff. He taught at Princeton and at Indiana University before becoming director
of the University of Chicago Press, the largest in the nation. He has been president of the Association of American University Presses, a trustee of the Chicago Historical Society and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Shugg became director of the University of New Mexico Press last summer. He is author of "Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana," "The World at War," and "World War II: A concise History" (with Harvey DeWeerd).
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