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The University of Tennessee Press and University Libraries Present Symposium to Celebrate the Year of the University Press
 June 8, 2004: The American Association of University Presses (AAUP) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to have designated 2004 as The Year of the University Press. To celebrate the occasion, The University of Tennessee Press and University Libraries are presenting a symposium entitled The Book and The Scholar: Celebrating the Year of the University Press, September 23-24, 2004. The program will focus on the important role of the university press in the academic community.
The symposium will begin on Thursday with keynote addresses by Peter Givler, AAUP Executive Director, and Sandra Yee, Dean of Libraries at Wayne State University. They will discuss some of the pressing issues facing today's university press, the significance of a university press for scholars, and propose steps that presses and universities can take to meet the needs of modern scholarship.
Sessions on Thursday will include professors, librarians, and university press directors discussing the importance of the university press in academic careers, book publishing trends, and the future of the press.
Thursday evening, the UT Press and the UT Library Friends will hold an event to launch Tennessee Reads, a book club that will feature UT Press titles. UT Press author Dan Pierce will discuss his book The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park, the first book club selection.
The second day of the symposium will be a writer's workshop for graduate students and faculty about the book publication process. Sessions will cover turning a dissertation into a book, finding an appropriate publisher, and the publication process in general.
The symposium will be held in the Lindsay Young Auditorium at the John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, and is free and open to the public.
Details about the symposium will be available on this web site. You may also contact Tom Post at the UT Press, 865-974-3321, for more information.
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