Tom Booth, Oregon State University Press director, will retire at the end of February after 33 years with the publisher. Booth joined the OSU Press as its first marketing manager. He was named associate director in 2007 and then director in 2019. A search for his successor is underway.
"Tom has steered the OSU Press with a steady hand through some turbulent and uncertain waters in his tenure as director," said Anne-Marie Deitering, the Delpha and Donald Campbell Dean of Libraries at OSU Libraries and Press. "I am very grateful for the years I got to work with him, and I deeply admire his commitment to telling the diverse stories of our region with compassion and rigor."
Booth commented: "It has been an honor to work alongside the exceptional Press staff and I'm grateful for our dedicated community of publishing partners--authors, faculty editorial board members, booksellers, librarians, donors, and readers. The work of publishing peer-reviewed scholarship from diverse voices and viewpoints is extremely vital right now, so I'm eager to see where an energetic new director takes the press."