ABSTRACT
In 1983, Mac Marshall and Ivan Brady trusted me with the editorship of the ASAO series, a position I held for seven years. During that time the series and the publishing industry changed a lot. I changed a lot, too. I would like to share some of what I learned participating in ASAO and editing the series. Using archival material that Jan Rensel has generously organized and provided, I will consider how the monograph series began, and how it has changed over 45 years.
Questions to be considered include: How does the microcosm of ASAO monograph series editors’ reports from 1971 to the present reflect macro-level challenges and changes in academic publishing? Was/is ASAO a special case? How has the process through which our volumes are created changed? To what extent are these changes driven by the changes in the publishing industry and what other factors are at play? Has the “ASAO Treatment” result in unique kinds of publications? As these questions suggest, the topic is large and I would be pleased to co-create with others the paper that comes out of this working session.
Rupert Stasch, Jeannette Mageo, Michele Dominy, and Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern have provided supplemental narratives regarding their own periods as Monograph Series editors.
In 1983, Mac Marshall and Ivan Brady trusted me with the editorship of the ASAO series, a position I held for seven years. During that time the series and the publishing industry changed a lot. I changed a lot, too. I would like to share some of what I learned participating in ASAO and editing the series. Using archival material that Jan Rensel has generously organized and provided, I will consider how the monograph series began, and how it has changed over 45 years.
Questions to be considered include: How does the microcosm of ASAO monograph series editors’ reports from 1971 to the present reflect macro-level challenges and changes in academic publishing? Was/is ASAO a special case? How has the process through which our volumes are created changed? To what extent are these changes driven by the changes in the publishing industry and what other factors are at play? Has the “ASAO Treatment” result in unique kinds of publications? As these questions suggest, the topic is large and I would be pleased to co-create with others the paper that comes out of this working session.
Rupert Stasch, Jeannette Mageo, Michele Dominy, and Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern have provided supplemental narratives regarding their own periods as Monograph Series editors.
| asaomonographseries1967-1990_01-21-17.pdf |
| staschbookseries2007-present.pdf |
| dominymonographseries2002-2004.pdf |
| stewartstrathernmonographseries1991-2001.pdf |
| mageomonographseries2004-2007.pdf |