This article traces the history of university presses in North America, from the founding of the first presses at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. The growth of colleges and universities and new imperatives that faculty engage in productive research helped shape the function of the modern university press. In the twentieth century, smaller subsidies from parent institutions, new developments in technology, and the erosion of library budgets affected the stability of many presses and forced many to revise both their editorial goals and their business and management practices. Faced with new modes of scholarly communication, the explosion of digital publishing, and the open-access movement, university presses will need to continue to adapt and to assert their proper role in the scholarly community.

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Chhattisgarh state expresses its traditional art through handloom activities which is encouraged by various weaving various weaving cooperative societies. The present study describes various regions of Chhattisgarh in context of number of weaving cooperative societies. Role of weaving cooperative societies is also discussed. Later, numbers of active, inactive and abolished weaving cooperative societies present in each region of Chhattisgarh are studied. The study is descriptive in nature and the main source of data collection is secondary data. The study also point out such areas of Chhattisgarh where none of the active weaving cooperative societies are present. It is found that Central Region of Chhattisgarh comprises of maximum number of weaving cooperative societies in which Jangir-Champa shows highest number of weaving cooperative societies. Around 07 districts of Chhattisgarh are present with none of the active weaving cooperatie societies, so handloom activities cannot be expected in that place.