Events for your calendar this upcoming ALA Annual in Chicago: Litwin Books and Library Juice Press will be sharing a booth with the Alternative Press Center in the Exhibits Hall. … Read more Library Juice Press and Litwin Books @ALA
So You Want To Be a Librarian Author: Lauren Pressley Price: : $15.00 Published: July 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-8-5 Printed on acid-free paper. Now on sale. Librarians tend to love their … Read more New from LJP: So You Want To Be a Librarian
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Greening Libraries, edited by Monika Antonelli and Mark McCullough and published by Library Juice Press, is a collection of essays, papers and articles on various aspects of … Read more Call for Submissions: Greening Libraries
The Baffler is coming back! The Baffler was my favorite magazine during the years it was being published. Thomas Frank has announced he is bringing it back, and is involving … Read more The Return of The Baffler
A cultural theme in America for the past few decades has been a certain conservative populist “anti-elitism.” Barack Obama’s victory despite his vulnerability to the charge of elitism – owing … Read more Anti-elitism and academic libraries
Alternative Media Reception at Annual Conference On Monday, July 13, from 7-10 pm, the Alternative Media Reception (ALA Annual, Chicago) will join forces with the SRRT 40th Anniversary Celebration in … Read more Alternative Media Reception at Annual Conference
The current issue of Interactions has a review of Richard Cox’s latest book, Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections, and Ruminations. The review, by Kim Anderson, gives … Read more Review of Richard Cox’s latest book
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Gen-X Perspectives on Librarianship (working title), edited by Erik Estep, Rebecca Tolley-Stokes, and Martin K. Wallace; published by Library Juice Press. Seeking previously unpublished scholarly manuscript contributions … Read more Call for Submissions – Gen-X Perspectives on Librarianship
It’s easy to think that politics has no place in the production of reference materials and that objective reference works are by nature apolitical. Yes, solid reference sources tend to … Read more Group Storms Greek-Macedonian Dictionary Promotion
The current issue of InterActions, the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, has a review of David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship. The review, by Michael Wartenbe, provides a thorough and … Read more Review of David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship in Interactions journal
Lauren Pressley will be signing her new book, So You Want To Be a Librarian, at the Library Juice Press booth in the exhibits at the ALA Conference in Chicago. … Read more Lauren Pressley Book Signing – So You Want To Be a Librarian
Download the Litwin Books & Library Juice Press 2009 Catalog, or contact us to request a print copy.
The new issue of the SRRT Newsletter is out – Issue #167, June 2009. It has the usual updates from task forces, messages from the coordinator and editor, and book … Read more SRRT Newsletter #167
I have posted Chapter One of John Ridener’s From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory to the Litwin Books website. The chapter is called Why Study Archival … Read more Why Study Archival Theory?
Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book Foreword by Michael Gorman Books of quotations serve many functions. They can entertain, enrich, inform, infuriate, define (by inclusion and exclusion), and/or … Read more Michael Gorman’s Foreword to Speaking of Information
Library of Walls Foreword by Davin Heckman My first experience of what would become Samuel Gerald Collins’ Library of Walls came several years back, when I was an editor for … Read more Davin Heckman’s Foreword to Library of Walls
Attempted Censorship by U.S. Attorney — A Book to Watch! By Ann Sparanese On June 16, the paperback edition of Triple Cross: How Bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, … Read more Attempted Censorship by U.S. Attorney
Announcement that went to PLGnet-L this morning: The Progressive Librarians Guild is pleased to announce the winner of the 2009 Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize. Sarah Clark has been awarded the … Read more 2009 Miriam Braverman Prize Winner Announced
Forthcoming from Library Juice Press Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods, edited by Emily Drabinski, Alana Kumbier, and Maria Accardi (978-1-936117-01-7) The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-Six Large American … Read more Forthcoming books