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University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries Best of the Best of the University Presses This program is presented annually at the Summer ALA. Public and secondary school librarians who served on the 2003 selection committees present their "favorite" books from University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries to an audience of their colleagues. Publishers of the presented titles donate copies of the books to be raffled to librarians in the audience after the program. C-SPAN's BookTV aired the 2002 The Best of the Best from the University Presses,and tapes of that event can be ordered here. Librarians may order a free copy of University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 13th edition - click here for the downloadable form. 2003 Panelists Titles featured in the ALA session The Best of the Best of the University Presses Colin Amery and Brian Curran Jr, Lost World of Pompeii, Getty Publications David L. Anderson, Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War, Columbia University Press David Attenborough, The Life of Mammals, Princeton University Press Michal R. Belknap, The Vietnam War on Trial: The My Lai Massacre and the Court-Martial of Lieutenant Calley, University Press of Kansas Alex Bevan and John de Laeter, Meteorites: A Journey Through Space and Time, Smithsonian Institution Press DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers, Louisiana State University Press Monica Bohm-Duchen, The Private Life of a Masterpiece, University of California Press Robert A. Dahl, How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Yale University Press Barbara Darling-Smith (Editor), Courage, University of Notre Dame Press Virginia G. Drachman, Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business, University of North Carolina Press Alan Fildes and Joann Fletcher, Alexander the Great, Son of the God, Getty Publications Lalo Guerrero and Sherilyn Meece Mentes, Lalo: My Life and Music, University of Arizona Press Joy Hakim, Freedom: A History of US, Oxford University Press Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar, Empire City: New York Through the Centuries, Columbia University Press Roland W. Kays and Don E. Wilson, Mammals of North America: Princeton Field Guide, Princeton University Press Lawrence W. Levine and Cornelia R. Levine, The People and the President, Beacon Press Meriweather Lewis and William Clark, edited by Gary E. Moulton, The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark (7 volume set), University of Nebraska Press C. C. Lockwood, The Alligator Book, Louisiana State University Press James G. Mead and Joy P. Gold, Whales and Dolphins in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book, Smithsonian Institution Press Stephen Roger Moriarty and Morna O'Neill (Editors), A Gift of Light: Photographs in the Janos Scholz Collection, University of Notre Dame Press Donald Morrill, Sounding for Cool, Michigan State University Press Elizabeth Mullener, War Stories: Remembering World War II, Louisiana State University Press Matthias Ostermann, The Ceramic Surface, University of Pennsylvania Press Delphine Red Shirt, Turtle Lung Womans Granddaughter, University of Nebraska Press Phil Rogers, Salt Glazing, University of Pennsylvania Press Jeffrey Shandler (Editor), Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust, Yale University Press Kathleen Lopp Smith and Verbeck Smith (Eds.), Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892-1902, University of Alaska Press David R. Starbuck, Massacre at Fort William Henry, University Press of New England Robert J. Sternberg (Ed.), Why Smart People Can Be Stupid, Yale University Press W.D. Wetherell, This American River: Five Centuries of Writing about the Connecticut, University Press of New England Lana A. Whited, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon, University of Missouri Press For more information about the program, please contact Rachel Weiss, Marketing Manager. |
