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March 29, 2007

[TS] THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Filed under: General — Michael @ 9:58 am

PHILOSOPHICALLY, New Jersey's two university presses are close: Each is devoted to and takes pride in scholarly work. Physically, they are less than 16 miles apart: Princeton University Press is in a Gothic building at 41 William Street, Princeton; Rutgers University Press in a converted 19th-century farmhouse at College and Hamilton Avenues in New Brunswick. In a sense, however, they are far apart. As Kenneth L. Arnold, director of the Rutgers Press, put it, the Rutgers Press "cannot be compared with those university presses that seem to garner the lion's share of reviews and prizes." "In that case," he said, "you're talking about larger quarters, rich endowments, a staff more numerous than our 12, access to a much larger operating budget and, often, to one's own printing plant."…

Source: By SHIRLEY HORNER

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