UIC Library Marks the Year of the University Press
The University of Illinois at Chicago Richard J. Daley Library is
marking the Year of the University Press with a series of book displays
featuring publications from the University of Illinois Press.
Through 2004, book displays will focus on areas of strength for the University of Illinois Press. The current displays, which will remain in place until June, include two cases, one each on the main and second floors. Both cases offer a selection of works on Latin American Studies published by the University of Illinois Press. Highlights include:
- Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40, the inaugural volume in the series Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest. One of four series editors is Frances Aparicio, Professor and Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at UIC. Pots of Promise features the essay "Bringing Art to Life: The Practice of Art at Hull-House" by Peggy Glowacki, former Assistant Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and now a member of the Daley Library's Special Collections Department.
- Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York, part of the H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies held by the Daley Library Special Collections Department. The Carberry Collection documents the first wave of Caribbean literary and intellectual work published in England and beginning in the late 1940s.
- Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s, winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for best book in southern women's history, given by the Southern Association for Women Historians.
A complete bibliography of the books in the cases may be obtained at the Daley Library Reference Desk. The UIC Library is proud to include most of these items in its collections.
Established in 1918, the University of Illinois Press is one of the
country's largest and most distinguished university presses.
Headquartered in Champaign, it publishes about 120 books each year, as
well as 26 journals.
The Association of American University Presses,
to which the University of Illinois Press belongs, and the Association of
Research Libraries, to which the UIC Library belongs,
have joined to sponsor this yearlong celebration of university presses.
Look for changing displays through 2004 at the Daley Library!
