Byron Anderson’s Bibliographic and Web Tools for Alternative Media has just been updated. This is a good collection development resource for librarians and others who want tools for going beyond … Read more Bibliographic and Web Tools for Alternative Media – December 2009 update
I have posted the first chapter of Juris Dilevko’s The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship to the Library Juice Press website: Chapter One: Fateful Choices. It is … Read more Chapter One of Juris Dilevko’s Politics of Professionalism
Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship Author: André Cossette Translator and Editor: Rory Litwin Price: $15.00 Published: December 2009 ISBN: 978-1-936117-17-8 Printed on acid-free paper André … Read more New book: Humanism and libraries: An essay on the philosophy of librarianship
Press Release Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America and James Bennett – Blackwell U.K. Acquires B&T’s Lindsay and Croft in the U.K. As Part of Deal. Customers to Benefit … Read more Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America
Rebel Literacy: Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign and Critical Global Citizenship Author: Mark Abendroth Price: $25.00 Published: December 2009 ISBN: 978-1-936117-06-2 Printed on acid-free paper Rebel Literacy is a look at … Read more New Book: Rebel Literacy: Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign and Critical Global Citizenship
I always feel a little hucksterish when I use this blog to try to sell books, but Library Juice Press is a business, and selling books is what it is … Read more Sale price on Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library
One of the first books from Library Juice Press was Ed D’Angelo’s Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the … Read more Ed D’Angelo’s book translated into Japanese
The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship Author: Juris Dilevko Price: $32.00 Published: November 2009 ISBN: 978-1-936117-04-8 6″ by 9″ 242 Pages Printed on acid-free paper This book … Read more New from Library Juice Press: The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship
Three forthcoming books that I haven’t announced yet: The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-Six Large American Public Libraries, Robert Scott Kramp (Due next month) Humanism and Libraries: An Essay … Read more New books
Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870 This book is on sale through November and December if purchased through the website … Read more Sale Price on Lara Moore’s Restoring Order
This post presents a second look at the familiar story regarding the transformation of information consumers into information producers and the idea that this shift is making book publishing companies … Read more On the contribution of publishers
Up to now there has been no peer-review process for books considered for publication by Library Juice Press and Litwin Books. That is changing as of now. Manuscripts that are … Read more Library Juice Press and Peer Review
These four books are in progress and coming along quickly: The Stories I Read to the Children: The Life and Writing of Pura Belpré, the Legendary Storyteller, Children’s Author, and … Read more Four books coming soon
Two recent articles in the mainstream press are telling us that paper books and physical libraries are dead (Boston Globe and CNN.com). One of the easiest things to forget about … Read more Death of a thousand paper cuts
In addition to information about the books we publish, the Library Juice Press and Litwin Books websites have some free content, including some of the content of our books and … Read more Free content on the LJP / Litwin Books website
The following is the list of authors in the Author Index to Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book. (Note that some authors listed, like me, are there because … Read more List of authors in Speaking of Information: the Library Juice Quotation Book
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
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