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An Inventory of Ooligan History

By Grace Evans and Elizabeth Hughes

August 14, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

An Inventory of Ooligan History

Imagining shelves of Ooligan books expanding into the future is one of the unsung joys of inventory; what might seem a menial task, unseen and unappreciated, is actually one of the threads that weaves Ooligan Press together, past, present, and future.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: backlist, Covers, croatia, Dot-to-Dot Oregon, history, inventory, managers, Oolie, Ooligan, operations, Oregon Stories, organization, PA, press, publisher's assistant, publishing

The Unglamorous Truth of Being a Publisher’s Assistant

By Frances Kane and Melina Hughes @kfrancesstella

January 30, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

The Unglamorous Truth of Being a Publisher’s Assistant

With the help of the project managers, we are working to ensure that no important work is lost going forward. And like Nancy Drew, we will investigate the whereabouts of those old missing files.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan, Manager Monday, Publishing Tagged With: Archives, grad students, Nancy Drew, ooligan press, projects, publisher's assistant

Manager Monday: A Publisher’s Assistant’s Guide to Mailing Things (Operations)

By Chris Thomas and Alex Fus chris_the_nerd

April 11, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Manager Monday: A Publisher’s Assistant’s Guide to Mailing Things (Operations)

Mailing books is just one of the many jobs that keeps our publisher’s assistants busy. So what else, exactly, does a publisher’s assistant at Ooligan Press do? We take care of a variety of tasks that vary almost daily, but put simply: we make sure the press runs like a well-oiled machine. From taking minutes […]

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: guides, mailing, publisher's assistant, publishing, shipping

PA Adventures at PNBA

By Alex Fus

October 30, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

PA Adventures at PNBA

Early on a brisk October Saturday, bleary-eyed but with coffee in hand, I stumbled off the longest pre-dawn bus ride of my life into the brightly lit lobby of the Portland Holiday Inn Conference Center, which was packed for the occasion with books and the people who make books their business. A perky volunteer handed […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: booksellers, conference, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, PNBA, publisher's assistant, trade show

An Interview with Publisher’s Assistant Paige O’Rourke

By David Quinton

February 26, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

An Interview with Publisher’s Assistant Paige O’Rourke

I recently had the lovely opportunity to sit down and have a chat with Paige O’Rourke, one of the publisher’s assistants (as well as one of the Graduate Assistants) at Ooligan Press. As a publishing assistant, Paige functions as an important cog in the book publishing machine that is Ooligan Press. She shared with me […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan, Interview Tagged With: Business, ooligan press, Paige O'Rourke, PSU students, publisher's assistant, Soundcloud

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