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Speaking of Books: Speaking of Books: Connecting with Faculty through Connecting with Faculty through
a Campus Author Seriesa Campus Author Series
Timothy HackmanUniversity of Marylandthackman@umd.edu
OutlineOutline
• History of “Speaking of Books…” at University of Maryland
• Benefits of an author series
• Publicizing your author series
• Future directions
• Began informally in 2005-2006 with talks by two English professors
• Funded by UM Libraries and College of Arts & Humanities for 2006-2007; focus on Arts & Humanities faculty
• Funded by UM Libraries from 2007 to present; expanded to include all schools and colleges
““Speaking of Books” at UMDSpeaking of Books” at UMD
““Speaking of Books” at UMDSpeaking of Books” at UMD
• 14 events since 2005
• Average 50 attendees per event
• Departments/Colleges represented: Agriculture & Resource Economics American Studies, Communication
English (4), Government & Politics History (3), Journalism,
Public Health, Public Policy
Benefits of an Author SeriesBenefits of an Author Series
• Provide a forum for great scholarship
• Create positive publicity for the Libraries
• Provide a service to the departments and the faculty to improve relations
• Foster the image of the Libraries as a “learning space”
Benefits of an Author SeriesBenefits of an Author Series
• Brainstorming: Can you think of other benefits of hosting a faculty author series at your library?
Getting StartedGetting Started
• Start Small– Gauge interest of your community– Learn the ropes of planning– Build administrative support
• Have a Plan– What are your goals?– Who is your primary audience?– How can you most effectively reach them?
Publicity IdeasPublicity Ideas
• Don’t do it all by yourself
• Make personal connections
• Use the power of the network
• Look for opportunities to collaborate
• Think outside of campus
Publicity IdeasPublicity Ideas
• Brainstorming: Can you think of publicity options available:
– On your campus?
– Through campus collaborators?
– Off-campus and in your community?
Where Do We Go from Here?Where Do We Go from Here?
• Greater campus integration
• Greater campus collaboration
• Broadening the scope
• Turn attendees into donors
• Speaking of Books 2.0– University of Mississippi– University of Virginia
• Verlyn Flieger. Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology. Kent State UP, 2005.
• Gene Roberts. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
• Clare Lyons. Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830. U. of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Robin Sawyer. Sexpertise: Real Answers to Real Questions About Sex. Simon & Schuster, 2008.
• Psyche Williams-Forson. Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food and Power. U. of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Robert Friedel. A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. MIT Press, 2007.
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• Barry Lee Pearson. Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers. U. of Tennessee Press, 2005.
• Jeffrey Herf. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. Harvard UP, 2006.
• Paul Herrnson, et al. Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot. Brookings, 2007.
• Trevor Parry-Giles & Shawn Parry-Giles. The Prime-time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism. U. of Illinois Press, 2006.
• Vincent Carretta. Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. U. of Georgia Press, 2005.
• Stanley Plumly. Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography. W.W. Norton, 2008.
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