(Press announcement below, with mention. Watch for update on the web site: http://aaupnet.org/ )

“To help launch the 16th Edition University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries, a special program entitled "The Best of the Best of the University Presses: Books You Should Know About" will be presented at the 2006 ALA Summer Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA. Information about the conference is at http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2006a/2006an.htm

The "Best of the Best" program, now in its eighth year, offers librarians the opportunity to share advice and recommendations with their colleagues, and recognizes the valuable contribution that university press books can make to both public and secondary school libraries. By providing a public forum to discuss both these books and the bibliography, the program has increased awareness and use of University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries in collection planning.

The "Best of the Best" program is scheduled for Sunday, June 25th.
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 pm. Location: Morial Convention Center, Room 294

Program panelists:
Christina Maria Beaird (PLA), Plainfield Public Library District, Plainfield, IL
Clark Heath (AASL), Southfield Lathrup High School, Troy, MI
Mary Cosper-LeBoeuf (PLA), Terrebonne Parish Library System, Houma, LA
Terri Lent (AASL) Patrick Henry High School, Ashland, VA
Judith McGowan (AASL), NYC Dept. of Education, Bronx, NY

The following 27 titles from the 2006 Bibliography were selected by the panelists to be presented (alpha by press, then author):

-BEACON PRESS
Cofer, Judith Ortiz The Meaning of Consuelo: A Novel
Myung-Ok Lee, Marie Somebody's Daughter: A Novel
Nyugen, Tram We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11

-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Whitfield, Peter Cities of the World: A History in Maps
Wood, Michael In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World

-COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell Before Victoria:Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
Hillel, Daniel The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures

-UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS
Carretta, Vincent Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man

-INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS
Immel, Mary Blair Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War

-ISLAND PRESS
Orr, David W. The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror

-UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
Ellis, Richard J. To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance
Skiba, Katherine M. Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq

-UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Bell, Bernard W. The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
Murphy, Priscilla Coit / What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring

-UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Petry, Elisabeth Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters

-UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Kooser, Ted / The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

-UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
Elgersman Lee, Maureen Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950

-RUSSEL SAGE FOUNDATION
Farley, Reynolds and John Haaga The American People: Census 2000

-UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Mara, Melina Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate

-US INSTITUTE OF PEACE PRESS
Wittes, Tamara Cofman How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate

-VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS
Work, John W. Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering The Fisk University-Library Of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942

-WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Nisbet, Jack The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau

-YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gombrich, E.H. A Little History of the World
Kernan, Alvin The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons
Shakespeare, William The Annotated Shakespeare Series: Macbeth; Othello; The Taming of the Shrew”