id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-17818 Kaspar, Wendi Arant Academic Knowledge Production and University Presses: Some Random Thoughts 2019-07-11 .pdf application/xhtml+xml 3077 127 46 However, as a steward of a scholarly journal, as an author of professional publications, and as an educator of information literacy and scholarly methods, I do have some thoughts I would like to share about what is happening with university presses, the impact on higher education, and on knowledge dissemination. FIGURE 1 Knowledge Tug of War Witnessing this tension as well as the various news stories about university presses (from closures and budget reductions to restructuring where it seems almost commonplace now that the University Press is moving under the library), it prompts me to ask what the purpose of the scholarly press is. cache/crl-17818.pdf txt/crl-17818.txt