CFP: Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection) Editors: Shana Higgins and Lua Gregory are instruction and reference librarians at University of Redlands. They recently co-taught … Read more CFP: Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection)
Litwin Books PO Box 3320 Duluth, MN 55803 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Subject: Library Juice Press announces appointment of Alison M. Lewis, Ph.D. as Chief Acquisitions Editor. Duluth, MN — July … Read more Alison M. Lewis new Chief Acquisitions Editor for Library Juice Press
We finished our 2011 catalog in time to bring it to the American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans last weekend. We now have it available for download on … Read more 2011 Catalog
Julia Skinner has posted a thoughtful review of Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods to her blog. Her review will give readers a good sense of whether the books is … Read more Julia Skinner reviews Critical Library Instruction
We have just posted Ron Day’s introduction to Philippe Breton’s book, The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult: Social Fears and Religious Fantasies to the Litwin Books … Read more Ron Day’s introduction to The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult
The new issue of Libraries and the Cultural Record has a review of LJP publication The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-Six Large American Public Libraries, an Analysis of Published … Read more Review in Libraries and the Cultural Record
Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians Editor: Tracy Nectoux Price: $30.00 Published: May 2011 ISBN: 978-1-936117-03-1 Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians is an … Read more New book: Out Behind the Desk
John Miedema’s book, Slow Reading, has been translated into Portuguese by Editora Octavo. Isildo de Paula Souza at Octavo worked with us to enable this to happen, and we are … Read more John Miedema’s Slow Reading, in Portuguese
Philippe Breton: a brief introduction …by David Bade, the translator of Breton’s book Le culte de l’Internet: Une menace pour le lien social?, which Litwin Books has published under the … Read more Philippe Breton
The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult: Social Fears and Religious Fantasies Author: Philippe Breton Translator: David Bade Price: $22.00 Published: March 2011 ISBN: 978-1-936117-41-3 Printed on … Read more New book: The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult: Social Fears and Religious Fantasies
Title: Archival Anxiety and the Vocational Calling Author: Richard J. Cox Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-936117-49-9 6″ by 9″ 372 Pages Published: March 2011 Richard J. Cox’s fifteenth book on archival … Read more New book from Richard J. Cox: Archival Anxiety and the Vocational Calling
Litwin Books will soon be publishing an English translation of Philippe Breton’s 2000 book, Le culte de l’Internet: Une menace pour le lien social?, under the English title: The Culture … Read more Selection from Philippe Breton, relating to Wikileaks
As I have announced, all of our books are available in ebook form, from Powells.com and Google. We are now offering a few of our books on Amazon for the … Read more Some Kindle ebooks from LJP
Toni Samek (winner of Library Journal‘s first annual teaching award in 2007) has a review of R. J. Cox’s The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education … Read more Toni Samek reviews R. J. Cox’s The Demise of the Library School
If you want to buy ebooks from Google Ebooks, you can now find our publications there. Library Juice Press and Litwin Books…
We have posted the introduction to Beyond Article 19: Libraries and Social and Cultural Rights to our website. Julie Edwards’ introduction is a good read in itself regarding the United … Read more Introduction to Beyond Article 19
Ashley McCallister, librarian and library blogger at Bitch Magazine, has just posted a nice review of She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West, edited by Toni Samek, K.R. Roberto, and … Read more Bitch Magazine reviews She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West
From Philippe Breton’s The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult: Social Fears and Religious Fantasies, forthcoming from Litwin Books: One may distinguish three positions grosso modo: first … Read more Three attitudes toward the Internet
Have you or someone you know been helped by Lauren Pressley’s book, So You Want To Be a Librarian? We are interested in testimonials by people who have read the … Read more So You Want To Be a Librarian – Testimonials Wanted
Call for Chapters: Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader While information needs and behavior have become a central research concern in library and information studies, the particularities of gender and sexuality … Read more Call for Chapters: Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader