22 July 1994 Official Launch of Lincoln University Press

The combined wisdom of 16 professors and a librarian will help officially launch Lincoln University's Press this week (Tues. 26 July).

The Press, a partnership between the University and the Wellington-based publishing company Daphne Brasell Associates, will be launched by the Chancellor of Lincoln University, Mr Malcolm Cameron. Marking the occasion will be the simultaneous launching of the Press' first publication, a compilation of inaugural lectures presented at Lincoln over the years 1980-1993.

The book contains the inaugural addresses of 16 professors and the current librarian, with the topics covering such diverse fields as animal science, horticulture, international trade, computer technology in libraries, molecular biology, and the role of universities in the modern world.

Those featured in the publication, which is entitled "Lincoln College and Lincoln University Inaugural Addresses 1980-1993", are Professors Trevor Bryce, David Bullock, Tony Bywater, Ian Cornforth, Roger Field, Roger Juchau, Ralph Lattimore, David Penman, Tony Rayner, Don Ross, Richard Rowe, Roger Swift, Andrew Sykes, Jim White, Gordon Williams, Tony Zwart and Librarian Ainslie Dewe.

The Manager of Lincoln University Press, Coral Atkinson, says that the partnership between a commercial publisher and a university is unusual in New Zealand but in keeping with Lincoln's innovative and entrepreneurial outlook. It is intended that the titles the Press will publish will reflect the University's commitment to the management of natural resources.

The aim is to produce both academic and more commercial publications and provide Lincoln staff with a prestige publisher on the campus.

Daphne Brasell and Maureen Marshall, the co-owners of the parent company, will be present at the launching of the Press which will take place in the University's Stewart Building at the conclusion of the University's latest Inaugural Lecture, by Professor Terry Boyd, who holds the Chair of Property Studies.

Ian Collins, Journalist, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.