ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
(Record Series 19)

RECORD GROUP 19

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Founded in 1924 as the Collegiate Press, the Press was renamed the Iowa State College Press in 1946 and took its present title when Iowa State was recognized as a university in 1959.  The Press is a non-profit corporation designed to serve the publishing needs of both a professional book publishing program and student publications.  The staff carries on a professional book publishing operation including manuscript solicitation, planning, editing, designing and selling on a worldwide basis.  Most of the books are scholarly volumes at a college level in the fields of the University, plus some of a regional nature about Iowa and the Midwest.  More than 250,00 volumes a year carrying the Iowa State imprint go to eighty foreign countries as well as to points throughout the United States.  

In 2000, the Press merged with Blackwell Publishing, an international scientific and technical publishing company headquartered in Oxford, England.  The ISU Press continues to operate in Ames.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS  

The Board of Directors consists of twelve members: the Chair (the Head of Journalism and Mass Communication), two representatives from each of the owner publications (Outlook, The Iowa Engineer, The Agriculturalist, the Iowa State Daily, and The Bomb.) one a faculty and the other a student and the chair of the Manuscript Committee.

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BOOK PUBLICATIONS  


Directors:  

Harold E. Engle 1940-1944  
Kenneth R. Marvin       1944-1946   Acting  
Harold I. Engle     1946-1948 
Marshall Townsend 1948-1964
Merritt E. Bailey   1964-1986 
Richard Kinney 1986-1992  
Linda E. Speth 1992-1999
Gretchen Van Houten 1999-           Interim


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PRINTING PLANT

Superintendents:  

W. E. Holmes (1924-1963)
Robert A. Schwartz 1963-1986)  
Robert Cook (1986-1987)