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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. 19/1 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. 19/2
Superintendents:
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