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Duke University Press at the 2014 IFLA World Library and Information Congress

L to R: IFLA Attendees Elizabeth Chapman (University of Sheffield) and Lauren Smith (University of Strathclyde) with Library Relations & Sales Manager Kim Steinle at the Duke Univesrity Press booth at IFLA.

Last week we attended the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Lyon, France. This year's IFLA Congress was the best attended in the last several years, with 3,900 delegates from all over the world, including France, Korea, Kazakhstan, China, Japan, Uzbekistan, Uganda, Nigeria, Russia, Trinidad & Tobago, Scandinavia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

We attend this conference in order to meet librarians from around the world, learn about issues that affect or are important to the global library community, and to promote our Press internationally. Next year's Congress will be held in Cape Town, South Africa and the 2016 Congress will be held in Columbus, Ohio.

Frances Pinter, Executive Director of Knowledge Unlatched, accepting the 2014 IFLA/Brill Open Access Award at IFLA

IFLA/Brill Open Access Award
Congratulations to Knowledge Unlatched for winning the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award! Knowledge Unlatched "depends on many libraries from around the world sharing the payment of a single Title Fee to a publisher, in return for a book being made available on a Creative Commons licence via OAPEN and HathiTrust... The Title Fee represents the basic cost of publishing a book. Because the Title Fee is a fixed amount, as more libraries participate in Knowledge Unlatched, the per-library cost of ‘unlatching’ each title declines." Knowledge Unlatched was chosen as the most outstanding and game-changing initiative in the field. Read the full press release here.

Duke University Press is very excited to be a part of this program! We've included four books in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot program: Bilogical Relatives by Sarah Franklin, In Search of the Amazon by Seth Garfield, My Voice is My Weapon by David McDonald, and Ever Faithful by David Sartorius. 

Duke University Press at the Canadian Library Association Meeting

In May we attended the Canadian Library Association Conference for the first time in Victoria, British Columbia. Attending this meeting was a great way for us to reach out to our Canadian customers and learn more about what we can do to make their jobs easier.

The University of Victoria Library Tour

In addition to exhibiting and attending panels, we were able to tour two academic libraries—the University of Victoria and Camosun College Libraries—to learn more about recent library renovations at both schools. We even noticed some of our journals in the stacks!

We've always found it beneficial to engage in current conversations about important topics such as accessibility, open access content, and what new scholarship we can offer our customers like the recent launch of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Camosun College Campus

We look forward to meeting more of our customers! The next library conferences we will be attending are the International Federation of Library Association annual meeting and the Frankfurt Book Fair. 

 

 

Celebrating TSQ at the Berkshire Conference, Toronto, May 2014

We were so excited to welcome TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly with an official launch at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians in Toronto last week. The inaugural double issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies," features nearly ninety keyword contributions that "showcase the breadth and complexity of the field." You can subscribe to the journal here.

Editors Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker, along with editorial board membors A. Finn Enke and Frank Galarte, participated in a roundtable on TSQ that included information about the initial conception of the journal, current calls for papers, ideas for special issues in the future, the necessity (and difficulty) of the book review section, and how fashion would be an exciting part of the journal with Frank Gallarte acting as the Fashion Editor. It was thrilling to have an engaged audience participating in the conversation surrounding the bright future of the journal.

Following the roundtable, we had an official launch reception for TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly in the beautiful Croft Chapter House. We were happy to toast the journal with so many interested scholars, contributors, fans of the field, and conference organizers!The temporary tattoos we gave away with the TSQ asterisk were a big hit and it was fun to see so many attendees rocking the tattoos for the rest of the conference.

Check out the photos below for some highlights from the official launch. We hope that everyone will continue to contribute to the conversation on social media using the #TSQjournal hashtag.

Congratulations, TSQ!

From left to right: Book Review Editor A. Finn Enke, co-Editor Paisley Currah, co-Editor Susan Stryker, moderator Elspeth Brown, and (joining the roundtable via Skype) Fashion Editor Frank Galarte

Much of the roundtable was facilitated by enthusiastic questions from attendees. It was also enjoyable to follow the thoughts of those who were live-tweeting.

The recption, held in Croft Chapter House, included food, drinks, temporary tattoos, and a lot of great conversation (all the necessary items to make a good party!).

 

 

 

 

 

Co-editors Susan Stryker (L) and Paisley Currah (R) address the reception attendees.

Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, May 2014

We had a great time selling books and meeting authors at the 2014 annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. 

We were excited to congratulate Marc Hertzman for winning an Honorable Mention from the Bryce Wood book award committee for his book Making Samba. The award is for an outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in English.

 

 Andrew Canessa, author of Intimate Indigeneities poses with Jessaca Leinaweaver, author of The Circulation of Children and Adoptive Migration.

Peter Wade, co-editor of the new collection Mestizo Genomics.

 

Joanne Rappaport is the co-author of the award-winning Beyond the Lettered City and author of the new book The Disappearing Mestizo. 

  

 Gabriela Ramos is co-editor of Indigenous Intellectuals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Co-Editors Lauren (Robin) Derby and Eric Roorda stopped by at different times to pose with the latest in the popular Latin America Readers series, The Dominican Republic Reader.

 

Claudia de Lima Costa and Sonia E. Alvarez, two of the co-editors of the new collection Translocalities/Translocalidades.

Editor Cynthia Milton with two contributors from Art from a Fractured Past.

Marcia Ochoa with her new book Queen for a Day.

Myrian Jimeno, author of Juan Gregorio Palechor.

Heidi Tinsman, author of Buying into the Regime.

See even more photos on our Facebook page. And if you couldn't make it to LASA, don't worry, you can still buy all the great books we featured there at 30% off. Check out the program ad, and use coupon code LASA14 when you order on our website.

Come see us at Book Expo!

Next week publishers, booksellers, librarians, and media will converge on the Javits Center in New York City for Book Expo America, the largest publishing trade show in North America. Publishers are eager to get the word out about new titles, and there are also lots of deals being done. Foreign rights are sold, printers lobby for business, and digital companies of all kinds promise they are the future of publishing. 

Will you be attending BEA? If so, we hope you'll stop by our booth, #1542. We will have lots of advance review copies (ARCs) to give away as well as some cool totebags. Marketing Manager Emily Young and Sales Manager Michael McCullough will be in the booth to chat and answer questions. For booksellers, we are offering a show special of 50% off all backlist if you place your order with Michael or your sales rep by June 16.

Check out some of our featured titles below.

Heading to the beach this summer? Will it be a pristine national park, or a tiny strip of sand between the water and high-rise developments, studded with ugly groins and seawalls? The Last Beach by geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. Pilkey and Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and the grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores. Combining case studies and anecdotes from around the world, they argue that many of the world's developed beaches, including some in Florida and in Spain, are virtually doomed and that we must act immediately to save imperiled beaches. 

 

 A bestseller in Tibet until it was banned by China, My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone is a  moving memoir chronicles Naktsang Nulo’s childhood in Tibet’s Amdo region during the uprising against the Chinese invasion of the 1950s. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted to flee by the same route as troops of the People's Liberation Army advanced into their area. Naktsang's father was killed in the fighting that ensued, part of a little-known wave of unrest that took place throughout Amdo in 1958, as Tibetans rose up against the imposition of social and religious reforms by the Chinese forces. During the next year, the author and his brother were imprisoned in a camp where, after the onset of famine, very few children survived.

Many television critics, legions of fans, even the President of the United States, have cited The Wire as the best television series ever. On The Wire is a sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama by leading film scholar Linda Williams (author of Screening Sex and editor of Porn Studies). She argues that while the series is a powerful exploration of urban dysfunction and institutional failure, its narrative power derives from its genre. The Wire is popular melodrama, not Greek tragedy, as critics and the series creator David Simon have claimed.

  We will also have ARCs of Thomas Dumm's My Father's House: On Will Barnet's Paintings, Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism by Paige A. McGinley, and Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen by Sherrie Tucker. If you can't make it to BEA, booksellers, librarians, and reviewers can request digital ARCs of all these titles on NetGalley.

 

North American Serials Interest Group, May 2014

Kim Steinle, Library Relations Manager, and Amber Cary, Customer Relations Representative at NASIG 2014

Last week our library relations and customer relations staff attended the North American Serials Interest Group 2014 annual meeting in Ft. Worth, Texas.

We always enjoy meeting our customers face-to-face and library conferences give us a great opportunity to do that. These meetings bring together publishers, librarians, consultants, and vendors and create unique conversations that often lead to big ideas, both for libraries and for us.

If you see Duke Press at a conference, we hope you'll stop by and say hello. We would love to meet you and have a conversation about challenges, successes, new trends, and what we can offer to lighten a burden or be more helpful in the future.

The next library conferences we will be attending are the Canadian Library Association annual meeting, International Federation of Library Association annual meeting, and the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Library Meetings: Bigger than Small Talk

Our Library Relations team: (L to R) Kendall, Beth, and Kim

Our Library Relations team travels to conferences around the globe, including the United Kingdom Serials Group Annual Conference (UKSG), the International Federation of Library Associations Annual Conference (IFLA), and the Frankfurt Book Fair. If you come across a Duke University Press booth in your travels, we hope that you'll come say hello.

Kim Steinle, Library Relations and Sales Manager

"One of the nicest things about library conferences is the opportunity to finally meet a librarian in person after years of e-mails. Face-to-face conversations about usage reporting or budget constraints can be so productive. The frank exchange of information helps us be as responsive as possible to librarians' concerns." Kim's next meetings are North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and IFLA.

Beth Hoskins, Library Relations Coordinator

"I'm always struck by how easily small talk leads to big ideas at library meetings. I remember chatting with a librarian who was frustrated by all of the time she spent sorting through massive site licenses. As a result, we trimmed our e-collection site licenses down to two pages. It was great to learn about a specific way that we could lighten a burden for our customers."

Kendall McKenzie, Data and Project Specialist

"Conferences give me the chance to absorb the library culture. We love to learn about librarians’ challenges, successes, new trends, and what they want most out of their content. It’s exciting to have these conversations in person and really witness their energy." Kendall's next meeting is UKSG.

UKSG

If you'll be attending UKSG, please look for Kendall and Leslie Eager at Stand 74. Leslie is returning for her second UKSG and Kendall is looking forward to attending for the first time. 

We'd love to see you while we're in the UK. If we can meet either at the conference or on a campus visit, please contact us!

Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March 2014

We enjoyed meeting authors and selling books at the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Seattle last week. 

Congratulations to Yuriko Furuhata, whose book Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics won the 2014 SCMS Best First Book Award. Here she is, posing with her book and poster. Congratulations are also in order for Jonathan Sterne, whose recent book MP3: The Meaning of a Format was selected for the Award of Distinction by the 2014 Kovacs Award committee.

 

 

 

 

People were buzzing about Eugenie Brinkema's fabulous talk "Order and the List: 'Final Destination' and Death by Design" and everyone wanted to buy her new book The Forms of the Affects. We sold out of them quickly, but not before she got a chance to pose with it.

 

 

 

 

Eric Schaefer met his book Sex Scene for the first time at the conference. Many of the contributors stopped by to check it out, too. You can read excerpts from it in Salon and PopMatters.

 

 

 

Here's Karen Beckman with her book Animating Film Theory, another
big seller at the conference.

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Peterson with her book Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forthcoming authors stopped by, too. Here's Linda Williams with an advance copy of On The Wire, which will be out in August.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here's Nguyen Tan Hoang with his forthcoming book A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, which comes out in August as well. 

Thanks so much to everyone who came by the booth. Check out a few more pictures on our Facebook page. See you next year in Montreal.

The Irish Girls' Rising

People all over the world are celebrating St. Patrick's Day today. Brush up on your Irish history with Suellen Hoy's "The Irish Girls' Rising: Building the Women's Labor Movement in Progressive-Era Chicago" from Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (volume 9, issue 1; Spring 2012).

Read an excerpt:

Hannah O’Day was the thirty-year-old Irish 'girl' who, with red flag raised, led a march of approximately seventy-five young women out of the canning department of the Chicago packinghouse of Libby, McNeill & Libby on February 5, 1900. Although hardly a girl, O’Day was not married and lived, as did many single Irish women, with her family (a brother and his wife, in this case). She was an old-timer who had worked at the yards since she was eleven years old and at the Libby plant for the past twelve years. While it is not known if she had walked out before, there is no doubt that on this cold, cloudy February morning O’Day led a group of coworkers, most of them Irish and likely Catholic, in a ragtag parade through the yards and into the street. They acted spontaneously and boldly. They clearly had had enough.

This incident is one of many strikes in the first decades of the twentieth century that demonstrate a concerted resolve by working women to secure economic and social justice for themselves and those who came after them. However, the stockyard strike of 1900, the earliest of many that would follow, was a pivotal event that has been neglected in the histories of women, labor, and Chicago. Prompted by an abrupt wage slash, this strike solidified the identity of these women as workers. Although the strike failed, it became a platform leading to the first women's local in the stockyards in 1902, which by 1904 was a durable organization, the Chicago branch of the national Women's Trade Union League (WTUL). When Hannah O'Day, friends Maggie and Annie Condon, neighbor Annie Killeen, and their coworkers marched out of the Libby plant 'without even a parley,' as Upton Sinclair noted, they were immediately dismissed, blacklisted, and replaced by eager applicants. In time, a 'new union' emerged, which helped lay the foundation for a much larger organization of wage-earning women seeking better working and living conditions. As for the rebellious strikers, the stockyard rising would transform them from exploited canners into women workers with a collective consciousness of themselves as trade unionists and participants in 'women's public culture,' though which conditions of working-class and middle-class activists sought economic and social justice.

For more of "The Irish Girls' Rising," click here.

 

Browse the introduction and table-of-contents of the following special issues on Ireland and Irish culture:

"Contemporary Irish Culture and Politics," a special issue of boundary2, edited by Seamus Deane and Kevin Whelan (Spring 2004)

"The Irish Question," a special issue of Radical History Review, edited by Van Gosse and Donal Ó Drisceoil (Spring 2009)

 

Heading to the OAH annual meeting in Atlanta this April? Duke University Press will be there with Labor giveaways! Stop by the booth to pick up your Labor supplies.

College Art Association 2014 Annual Meeting

Last week we enjoyed selling books and meeting authors at the 2014 annual meeting of the College Art Association in Chicago. We were glad our staff got out of Durham in time to miss the huge snowstorm that closed the university for three days. For once the weather may have been worse here than in Chicago!

We were thrilled to congratulate T. J. Demos on his winning of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. The awards committee said that his book The Migrant Image "eloquently analyzes contemporary art that engages the current political reality of continual humanitarian crises while maintaining an open-ended appeal to the imagination."

It was also exciting to participate in the launch of the Art HIstory Publication Initiative's new website. The AHPI is a partnership of university presses whose mission is to help bring art history publishing into the digital age by tackling some of the obstacles that have made it difficult for scholars and publishers to take advantage of evolving digital technologies. Editorial Director Ken Wissoker took part in the "Getting Published in the Digital Age" panel with other AHPI members.

Our first book produced with funds from the AHPI is Hannah Feldman's From a Nation Torn. Here she is with her brand new book. 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a few other authors posing with their books.

 Richard J. Powell, who curated the new exhibition Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, and edited the catalog, which we distribute. The show is currently at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and will travel to LA County Museum of Art, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Marotti, author of Money, Trains, and Guillotines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of Seeing the Unspeakable. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John P. Bowles, author of Adrian Piper. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Elena Buszek, author of Pin-Up Grrrls and editor of Extra/Ordinary.