The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian

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. Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911. The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first scholarly book was a work by a classics professor at

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. The press took control of the university bookstore in 1933. It employed a novel

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method to print issues of the ''

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'', founded in 1949. The press has always had close ties with

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. The press was partially located in the library from 1910-1920. The University Librarian Hugh Hornby Langton, the lead librarian of the University of Toronto Libraries, served as the first general editor of the University of Toronto Press. Sidney Earle Smith, president of the

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in the late 1940s and 1950s, instituted a new governance arrangement for the press modelled on the governing structure of the university as a whole (on the standard Canadian university governance model defined by the

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). Henceforth, the press's business affairs and editorial decision-making would be governed by separate committees, the latter by academic faculty. A committee composed of

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(general editor of the press from 1951), and

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studied the publishing policies of American university presses to inform the structure of the press's publishing division. Beginning in 1971, the press printed its books simultaneously on paper and

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. The press is currently a member of the

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