Saltzman and Totten Join Georgetown University Press
Ms. Saltzman brings extensive experience in print production management to her new position. She started her publishing career working for The Johns Hopkins University Press for seven years. She then worked in a variety of print and production capacities in the US and worked abroad in El Salvador, Slovakia, and Serbia. Just prior to joining the press, Ms. Saltzman led the Production and Editorial team at ASTD for over six years. Ms. Saltzman holds a Master of Administrative Science from The Johns Hopkins University and has studied Serbian, Czech, Spanish, and French.
As Editorial, Design, and Production Manager, Ms. Saltzman will head the Editorial and Production Office and act as a senior member of staff at the Press. “Glenn is the consummate publishing professional,” said Richard Brown, director of Georgetown University Press. “Her experience in print and digital is broad and deep and she will be at the forefront of our workflow evolution.”
While working on her Master of Arts in Arabic, with a Minor in Linguistics, at Georgetown University, Ms. Totten interned at the Press as our Editorial Assistant for Languages. Before graduate school, she acted as Program Coordinator in the Academic Resource Center at GU. After graduating, she continued to freelance for the Press on multiple Arabic-related projects. Ms. Totten holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from George Washington University and knows Modern Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic, and Italian.
As Digital Editor, Ms. Totten will be producing and developing digital materials for teaching and learning foreign languages. “We are thrilled to welcome Clara back to GU Press. Her experience at the press and study of Foreign Language Learning pedagogy, linguistics, and Arabic are a great fit,” said Hope LeGro, Director of Georgetown Languages.
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It's the last day of the University Press Week blog tour. We end the tour on the theme of the global reach of university presses. Below is our contribution to the tour "Giving our Readers a Global Reach". The tour also stops at Columbia University Press, Indiana University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, New York University Press, Princeton University Press, the University of Wisconsin Press, and Yale University Press.
Georgetown University Press publishes authors from around the world. Many of our books have been translated into other languages including Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, French, Bosnian, Macedonian, and Japanese. We have done co-publications with a myriad of publishers in other countries including Hurst, Cambridge University Press India, Edinburgh University Press, DJØF, Penguin UK, and HarperCollins India. We attend the Frankfurt Book Fair and the British International Studies Association. Further, our foreign distributors (Scholarly Book Services, NBN International, Footprint Books, and United Publishers Services, Ltd.,) ensure that our books can be bought around the world. We are incredibly proud of our staff and our partners for creating that kind of global reach for Georgetown University Press. But, when discussing our international activities, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention one of the things that excites us the most: our efforts to help our readers engage with the rest of the world.
Under this same mission, we publish three popular career guides for those interested in working internationally. The first is Career Diplomacy:Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service by Harry W. Kopp and Charles A. Gillespie. This book—now in its second edition—is an insider's guide that examines the foreign service as an institution, a profession, and a career. The authors lay out what to expect in a foreign service career, from the entrance exam through midcareer and into the senior service—how the service works in practice, not just on paper. (We recommend that you check out our Q&A with Harry Kopp on YouTube). For those hoping for a broader look at working in international affairs, we have Careers in International Affairs, currently in its 8th edition with a 9th edition coming out in Fall 2014. Published in cooperation with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Careers in International Affairs is the ultimate job hunting guide for anyone hoping to work in the U.S. government, international organizations, business, or nonprofits. It provides descriptions and data about careers in the global workplace and how to find them—along with nearly 300 organization profiles.
Then for those fellow cause-oriented people, we also publish Working World: Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development by Sherry L. Mueller and Mark Overmann, the second edition of which is coming out this April. The two authors present their individual perspectives on career development on topics like work-life balance, the importance of informational interviews, moving on, and other key building blocks for international careers. They also explore how the idea of an international career has shifted: nearly every industry has taken on more and more global dimensions, and skills such as linguistic ability, intercultural management and sensitivity have become ever more highly prized by potential employers. By creating these three fantastic career resources, Georgetown University Press enables its readership to get out into the international job market and make their mark.
Finally, our International affairs titles truly bring the world to our readers and help them understand the complexities of foreign policy and international relations. For last year’s UPWeek, we created this map that demonstrates the global activities of the press. The red pins on the map represent just a few of our titles and the variety of countries around the world that those books study. Brahma Chellaney’s Water: Asia's New Battleground, winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book Award and now available in paperback, is a pioneering study of Asia's murky water politics and the relationships between fresh water, peace, and security. This unique and highly readable book expertly paints a larger picture of water across Asia, highlights the security implications of resource-linked territorial disputes, and proposes real strategies to avoid conflict and more equitably share Asia's water resources.
Continuing on the Asian continent, the press recently launched a new series: South Asia in World Affairs. It focuses on producing high quality scholarly works that help readers to understand this region of eight states and more than one fifth of humanity. One of the first books in the series Vying for Allah's Vote: Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence, and Extremism in Pakistan by Haroon K. Ullah will be coming out this December. Another Fall 2013 title, Matthew Levitt’s Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God is the first thorough examination of Hezbollah's covert activities beyond Lebanon's borders, including its financial and logistical support networks and its criminal and terrorist operations worldwide. The book has received a considerable amount of praise, including positive reviews from The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, ForeWord, The Washington Post, and Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. Having international affairs titles that have not only undergone a rigorous peer review process but that are also critically acclaimed and awarding-winning gives Georgetown University Press a truly impressive list through which our readers might extend their own global reach.
By giving our readers books for understanding the world, guides for starting an international career, and materials for learning other languages, we believe that we help them to have a greater engagement with and impact on the world at large. And we think that’s certainly a goal worth working towards.
Getting set-up on the Al-Kitaab website (for teachers): Hope LeGro, director of Georgetown Languages, goes through how to get set-up on the Al-Kitaab textbook website.
Lessons Learnt:
*Invested authors. Make sure your authors are invested in the end product, understand the challenges, and are excited about the prospect of a digital component. To be successful requires even more work than just creating a print book. You need the authors' vision and ability to push the envelope in their field in order to create something new. Especially if the content is in another language, you will need their expertise to review it at every stage.
*Repurposability. Build a digital product only once. Avoid making one-offs, where the functionality only suits a single product or content type. Use templates that are flexible enough to use for a variety of products.
Hope LeGro, Director of Georgetown Languages at Georgetown University Press, Publishing Digital Products Alongside Print Books, Scribe, Vol 1, no. 5
