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100 Books for 100 Yearsl Francess G. Halpenny in the Year Zool the University of Toronto P)Ress Celebrated the Hundredth Anniver 100 Books for 100 Yearsl Francess G. Halpenny In the year zool the University of Toronto P)ress celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its founding. Those hundred years had seen many changes in its mandate and operations. It began as a printing operation, initially for examination papers and calendars, and as a rebinder of university library books; it shortly undertook to print manuals for faculty members. In I9I0 its home became the basement of the University Library (now the Gerstein Science Information Centre). With printing business growing, discussion naturally followed about whether the Press was ready to begin publishing on its own account and over its own imprint. The Board of Governors of the University in 1919 authorized the establishment of a publishing department. The principle of peer review was recognized by the requirement that a manuscript proposed for publication had to be approved for content by a review committee of three as well as by a printing committee. A significant expansion of activity became possible in I920 when the Press constructed a building of its own in the southwest area of the campus; it would reach up three floors by 1926. The Students' Book Department moved from the Library as well, into part of the first storey. (This building, at 11 King's College Rd., is now the Engineering Annex.) In 1929 the Press took over the interests of the University Studies Committee, which had been responsible for issuing work by faculty members in a number of series, often in pamphlet or article form; the Library was the publisher and the Librarian the general editor. The most noteworthy development of these years before World War II was the creation of a journals program by the Press, which would include taking over the Canadian Historical Review (1929) and establishing the University of Toronto Quarterly (1931),the Canadianfournal ofEconornics and PoliticalScience (1934), and the University of Toronto LaEw Journal (I934). These journals were of crucial importance for the development of Canadian I A version of this essay was presented to the Bibliographical Society of Canada at its annual meeting in Montreal in zool. 58 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 40/2 scholarship. They were then the sole medium for publishing at less than book length the work of Canadian scholars in their respective fields (the venerable Dalhousie Review and Queen's Quarterly were more general in content and audience). The encouragement of their presence, despite the perils of journal publishing for UTP, provided vital stimulationi in the exchange of knowledge about Canada past and present and Canada's cultural interests. UTQ in its yearly "Letters in Canada" issue provided the first annual scholarly overview of our writers. Another significant impetus for the future was the appointment in 1932 of Alison Ewart (later Hewitt) from the Library as General Editor of the Press's publishing program. She would create an Editorial Department, and serve it until her resignation for family reasons in 1945. Mrs. Hewitt was an active member of the Dramatic Club of the University College Alumnae Association (which would develop into the Alumnae Theatre of today) and at one of its meetings in 194n she told the present author, then uncertain about her future after completing her MA, that there was an opening in the Editorial Department. Professors A.S.P. Woodhouse and E.K. Brown, both my teachers and both associated with UTQ, supported my nomination for the post. My first assignment was to UTQ. With the many shortages and handicaps of World War II over, the time came for the Press to give serious reconsideration to its publishing policy and program. Basing their recommendations on practices and policies of major American university presses (who served campuses and scholarly communities like U of T's), professors George W. Brown (History), A.S.P. Woodhouse (English), and V.W. Bladen (Political Economy) prepared a report that the University accepted and implemented as a promising publishing future. The momentum soon became clear, in new senior staff such as Eleanor Harman (1946) and a dynamic director, Marsh Jeanneret (1953), in a gradually expanding editorial department, a quickly increased list of publications with international as well as national connections, a gratifyingly fresh look in typography and design, and, in 1958, new larger quarters on campus (now the home of the Department of Alumni & Development, 2I King's College Circle). The Printing Division would move to a state-of-the-art establishment at Downsview in 1966. In 1991 the Press celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, hosting on that occasion an especially festive annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses (in which UTP) has always been active). For its diamnond anniversary in 1961 it issued The University as P)ublisher, edited by Eleanor Harman, still a 59 100 Books for 100 Years valuable history of UTP and discussion of scholarly publishing. Eleanor Harman would retire in 1975, Marsh Jeanneret in 1977. Harald Bohne became director, serving I978-89. In 1989, a year before his death, Marsh Jeanneret published with Macmillan of Canada God andMammon: Universities as Publishers, providing in it full accounts of UTP), its history and publications, which are important background for any study of its list. The celebrations for the hundredth anniversary of the Press in zool began with an exhibition in February at the Robarts Library of the University of Toronto. That exhibition centred on a selection of I00 books, initiated by Bill Harnum (Vice-President, Scholarly Publishing, from 1992) and "chosen by a group of long-time press employees as the r00 most influential and important books" in its Ioo-year history. (The list appears at the end of this essay.) "They are not necessarily the best selling books of the 3,000 or so [UTP has] published but are a subjectively selected sample of books that have had a significant influence over a number of years - they are the core of [the] list." (Some I,500 of the 3,000 are still in print, as are rr titles on the list of I00.) The locale of the exhibition was fitting for a press which began its life in quarters of the original University Library, as the Chief Librarian, Carole Moore, reminded the audience at the opening. Indeed much was owed in those early years to the editorial work for the University Studies Committee of W.S. Wallace, the University Librarian, 1923-94. But the fitness of place and occasion was more than one of physical congruity. A university library is the repository for all variety of stimuli to research which encourage scholars, who in turn motivate scholarly publishing. The Ioo-year list of titles bears witness to the research interests of many of the University of Toronto's faculty and of others who have used the resources of this or other university and research libraries in their pursuit of knowledge. At the opening of the Anniversary exhibition in February zool I was invited to contribute remarks, along with UTP's present Director, George L. Meadows (appointed 1990), and I subsequently expanded these into a presentation for the Bibliographical Society of Canada at its annual meeting in Montreal that same year. This present contribution follows on from that presentation. It is thus verily an "occasional" paper. I spoke then, and write now, not as a representative or a historian of the Press. I must, however, in fairness indicate at this point that I have had years of association with its publishing program. I joined the Editorial Department in 194I, 60 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 40/2 having just obtained an MA (English Language and Literature) at Toronto. In 1997 I became Editor for the P)ress, and in 196r Managing Editor. Then in 1969 I went as General Editor to the Dictionary of CanadianBiography (published by the Press), and in 1972 as Dean to the Faculty of Library Science (now the Faculty of Information Studies). At the Faculty I taught a course in Contemporary Publishing for some eighteen years. I went back to the Press, half time, from 1979 to 1984 as Associate Director (Academic), still maintaining my roles with the DCB and as a faculty member. In I984 I supposedly retired (from the DCB in 1989). I941/2ool: the dates meant I have been a participant in, or an observer of, the history of UTP over 60 years. It is a daunting thought. But my interest in the relationships of scholarship and scholarly publishing has never declined and continues to provoke me to inquiry and reflection. A word about the University of Toronto Press I joined in 1941 is needed as background for some of the comments I propose to make on the list of 100 titles. Its one building at the southwest corner of the campus then had the press room on the ground floor, the composing room on the second, the bindery on the third; offices on the second floor front, bookstore first floor front. The Editorial Department was, however, in three small offices in a corner of the second floor of the adjacent Baldwin House, a gracious house, later renamed more appropriately Cumberland House after the architect who built it (it is now the International Student Centre, 33 St. George St.). In that day it had a large garden along College Street, which was marked by a row of tall elms (all to disappear when the Wallberg Building was erected). Baldwin House was actually the home of the Department of History, with whom we editors, women, took tea every afternoon at 4 p.m. (And, I may say, were expected to take our turn in making the tea.) These editorial quarters meant fortunate juxtapositions.
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