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From Litwin Books:

• Davin Heckman's Foreword to Samuel Gerald Collins' Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society


• Chapter Two of John Miedema's Slow Reading


• Chapter One of John Ridener's From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory


• Unprinted Foreword to Gaëtan Benoît's Eugène Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France, by his widow, Marie Benoît


• Introduction to Mark Abendroth's Rebel Literacy: Cuba's National Literacy Campaign and Critical Global Citizenship

From Library Juice Press:

• Introduction to Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods


• Preface and Introduction from André Cossette's Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship


• Chapter One of Juris Dilevko's The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship


• Michael Gorman's Foreword to Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book


• Alison Lewis' Introduction to Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian


• Thomas Mann's Foreword to David Bade's Responsible Librarianship: Library Policies for Unreliable Systems


• Chapters One and Two of Ed D'Angelo's Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good


• Kathleen de la Peña McCook's Preface to Library Juice Concentrate


• Nancy Kranich's Preface to Alternative Publishers of Books in North America, 6th Edition