University Press Books for Libraries
2012 "Best of the Best" at the ALA
University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries: The Best of the Best from the University Presses
2012 American Library Association Annual Conference
Anaheim, CA
June 24, 2012; 1:30 PM
Broadcast on C-SPAN's BookTV: View Online
The "Best of the Best" program is presented annually at the ALA Conference. University presses represent an often-undiscovered gold mine of resources for school and public libraries. Public and secondary school librarians who served on the 2011-12 selection committees for University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries introduce 18 recent titles they found to be "the best" for a variety of reasons. Copies of the books presented are raffled to program attendees. Read the press release >
Go to the 2012 Online Edition of UP Books for Public Secondary School Libraries
Titles were selected and presented by the following members of the 2012 University Press Books Committee:
Hilary Albert, Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, NY
Nann Blaine Hilyard, Zion-Benton Public Library, Zion, IL
Merlyn Miller, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, VT
Annemarie Roscello, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
Barbara Morrow Williams, Riverside County, Riverside, CA
Featured Titles
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
by W. Scott Poole
BEACON PRESS
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia
by Kate Whouley
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security
by Swanee Hunt
GETTY PUBLICATIONS
Renaissance People: Lives the Shaped the Modern Age
by Robert C. Davis and Beth Lindsmith
Books: A Living History
by Martyn Lyons
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
A Kind of Archaeology: Collecting Folk Art in America, 1876-1976
by Elizabeth Stillinger
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age
Edited by Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
Finish Forty and Home: The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific
by Phil Scearce
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance
by John Haywood
The Quotable Thoreau
by Jeffrey S. Cramer
TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS
Reading Like a Historian: Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms
by Sam Wineburg, Daisy Martin, and Chauncy Monte-Sano
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns
by Charlton D. McIlwain and Stephen M. Caliendo
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI
by Dean Rader
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS
American Menswear: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
by Daniel Delis Hill
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
How to Work in Someone Else's Country
by Ruth Stark
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House
by Ron Nessen
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938-1945
by Imre Rochlitz
Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front, 1940–1944
edited by Mary F. Williamson and Tom Sharp
