The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Production Services staff is located in Lanham, Maryland; Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania; and Boulder, Colorado. This division, which includes Design, Composition Services, Production, and Manufacturing, oversees all phases of production for approximately 1,400 frontlist titles and thousands of backlist titles each year. Stephen Driver, who joined RLPG in 1998, is Vice President of Production Services and oversees a staff of 58.

Production

Under the leadership of Terry Fischer, Managing Editor, the editorial production department manages all phases of production for more than 1,325 frontlist titles each year. Terry has been with RLPG since 2002.

Design

Piper Willis, Director of Design, has run the Design department for the past 3 years. She and her staff handle art direction and design for more than 1,325 titles each year. Her staff also oversees the design of the RLPG websites, catalogs, and many company publications.

Composition Services

Lori Roblin is Director of Composition Services, which consists of both Graphics and Typesetting departments. The Graphics group is responsible for more than 700 template cover designs and 300 new designs each year, as well as journals and company stationery needs. The Typesetting group, which runs two shifts, is setting more than 600 titles per year. Prior to joining Rowman and Littlefield in 1997, Lori had 8 years of publishing experience as Art Director of the computer and electronics line for McGraw-Hill.

Manufacturing

For the past 23 years, vice president of manufacturing Joyce Culley has been responsible for the purchase of printing and binding for every book published by RLPG. Managing a staff of three, Joyce oversees the manufacturing of more than 1,400 frontlist titles and coordinates the reprinting of more than 2,000 backlist titles by incorporating both offset and print-on-demand technologies.

Our primary printer, Edwards Brothers of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has manufactured more than 15,000 individual titles for RLPG since our relationship began in the late 1970s. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group was also one of the first publishers to incorporate print-on-demand technology by partnering with Edwards Brothers.

In 2007 the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group group will exhibit at over 50 academic, library, and discipline-specific conventions where our books and catalogs will be on display. Tens of thousands of review copies are sent to publications of all kinds each year, and space ads appear in hundreds of publications.

In addition, the sales department and college marketing groups oversee sales of texts to college bookstores and commission reps who sell the group's general interest titles to retail bookstores and jobbers. Select titles are distributed through National Book Network.

Canadian & Overseas Marketing

Our Canadian sales and marketing operation is run by Les Petriw in a Toronto office where Les and his team handle all sales, marketing, promotion, and publicity responsibilities for both NBN and Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group books. Before joining the company, Les was vice president of Copp Clark, one of the largest Canadian publishers and distributors.

Overseas sales are handled by a variety of sales organizations and agents covering virtually every country in the world.