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<p class='main'>The University of Illinois Press was organized in 1918 to have charge of the work of editing, printing, and distributing the publications of the University.<a href='#ftn1'>¹</a> The Press is a general university division whose chief administrative officer is the Director of the University Press. <a href='#ftn2'>²</a> The Director is appointed annually by the Board of Trustees,<a href='#ftn3'>³</a> and is responsible to the University President through the office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.<a href='#ftn4'>⁴</a> The operations and policies of the Press are maintained under advisement of a University Press Board composed of the Director, the Deans of the Graduate Colleges or their representatives, and six appointed faculty members. <a href='#ftn5'>⁵</a>. The Press published works of interest primarily to the scholarly reader, although works intended for the more general reader are also published.<a href='#ftn6'>⁶</a> Priority is given to local manuscripts, but works produced at other institutions without presses are not excluded from consideration. <a href='#ftn7'>⁷</a> Although the Press attempts to show a modest profit, it is not primarily a profit-making institution and receives subsidies from the Graduate College as well as from some foundations. <a href='#ftn8'>⁸</a> The University of Illinois Press has sales representatives in Canada, the British Isles and Continental Europe, Latin America, and Japan.<a href='#ftn9'>⁹</a></p>

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<a name="ftn1">1.�  Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois, (Urbana, 1920), p. 285.</a>

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<a name="ftn2">2.�  University of Illinois Statutes, July 18, 1989, p. 12.</a>

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<a name="ftn3">3.�  Ibid.</a>

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<a name="ftn4">4.�  University of Illinois Student/Staff Directory, 1990-91, p. 55</a>

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<a name="ftn5">5.�  University of Illinois Statutes.</a>

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<a name="ftn6">6.�  The Book Publishing Program of the University of Illinois Press (informational pamphlet for faculty members), 1957, pp. 4-5.</a>

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<a name="ftn7">7.�  Ibid., pp. 5-6.</a>

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<a name="ftn8">8.�  Ibid., pp. 7-8.</a>

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<a name="ftn9">9.�  University of Illinois Press--Spring and Summer Books, 1972 (catalog).</a>

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