There’s good news from Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press will not be forced to close despite the state’s budget troubles.
Mary Katherine Callaway, the press’s director, confirmed in an e-mail message to The Chronicle that the press would live to publish another day. “Yes, it is good news,” she wrote. “We will need to retool several parts of our operation due to the budget cuts, but we’re focused on what we need to do and optimistic about the future.”
That puts an end to two months of deep and widespread anxiety about the press’s fate. Word got out in early May that LSU might cut its subsidy so drastically that the press would have to shut down.
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