1967: Trends in American publishing

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 14, 1967); Edited by Kathryn Luther Henderson

The publishing industry is experiencing great growth and major changes. Books and periodicals, the familiar tools of the world of learning, have been joined in recent years by a variety of new media and new forms of publication. The publications explosion has touched every aspect of librarianship from selection to circulation. It was the intention of the Fourteenth Annual Allerton Institute sponsored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science to describe some of the current trends in American publishing and to assess their implications for the future. The conference was held from Sunday, November 5, to Wednesday, November 8, 1967, at Allerton Park, the conference center of the University of Illinois.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• Major Trends In American Book Publishing - Dan Lacy
• Current Trends In American Publishing - Charles Madison
• The Economics Of Publishing - Robert W. Frase
• The Prospective New Copyright Law - Abe A. Goldman
• The Role Of Computers - Daniel Melcher
• Current Trends In Educational Publishing: A Personal View - Robert J. R. Follett
• A Librarian Looks At American Publishing - Edwin Castagna
• Bookstores: A Main Distribution Agency For Books - Louis Epstein
• The American University Press - Emily Schossberger
  

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.