Just a heads-up: There are assorted chapters from Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond now available for free online, linked from the authors’ bios … Read more Assorted chapters from Informed Agitation
The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom: Concepts, Cases, and Theories Editors: Mark Alfino and Laura Koltutsky Price: $50.00 Published: April 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-57-4 Available from Amazon.com The existing … Read more The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom: Concepts, Cases, and Theories
Melissa Morrone has announced a new website for her book, Informed Agitation.
Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada Editors: Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi Price: $45.00 Published: April 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-85-7 Printed on acid-free paper This book is a … Read more New book: Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada
Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive Author: Alana Kumbier Price: $35.00 Published: April 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-51-2 Number five in the Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, Emily … Read more New book: Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive
Life as Activism: June Jordan’s Writings for The Progressive Author: June Jordan Editor: Stacy Russo Foreword: Angela Davis Preface: Matthew Rothschild Price: $28.00 Published: February 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-90-1 This volume … Read more New book: Life as Activism: June Jordan’s Writings for The Progressive
Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond Editor: Melissa Morrone Price: $35.00 Published: February 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-87-1 In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our … Read more New book: Informed Agitation
Focus on Educating for Sustainability: Toolkit for Academic Libraries Editor: Maria A. Jankowska Price: $32.00 Published: February 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-61-1 Printed on acid-free paper In the last ten years, literature … Read more New book: Focus on Educating for Sustainability: Toolkit for Academic Libraries
André Schiffrin, Publishing Force and a Founder of New Press, Is Dead at 78 (New York Times obituary). I will take this as yet another occasion to recommend his very … Read more NY Times obituary for André Schiffrin
A few weeks ago, I attended the opening dedication of the Jean Rice Homeless Liberation Reference Library in the Fordham area of the Bronx. (I’ve written before about Picture the … Read more New NYC Library Curated by and for the Homeless
Japanese translation of Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian. Translation published by the Kyoto University Graduate School of Education. ISBN 978-4-8204-1308-0.
Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis Editors: Shana Higgins and Lua Gregory Price: $32.00 Published: September 2013 ISBN: 978-1-936117-56-7 Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis extends … Read more New Title: Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis
Voltaire’s Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet: A New Translation Author: Voltaire Translation and Introduction: Hanna Burton Preface: Malise Ruthven Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-936117-81-9 Published: September 2013 Printed on acid-free paper. … Read more Voltaire’s Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet: A New Translation
Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction Author: Maria T. Accardi Price: $22.00 Published: July 2013 ISBN: 978-1-936117-55-0 Number 3 in the Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, … Read more Just published: Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction
What would have happened, do you suppose, if Malcolm Little, instead of serving six years for petty crimes, had been imprisoned for a much longer time, locked in the conditions … Read more Prison Literature
Import of the Archive: U.S. Colonial Rule of the Philippines and the Making of American Archival History Author: Cheryl Beredo Price: $25.00 Published: June 2013 ISBN: 978-1-936117-72-7 Printed on acid-free … Read more New Book: Import of the Archive
Litwin Books and Library Juice Press have gone ahead and formally separated our frontlist and backlist titles. We’ve been going since 2006 and have quite a few books out, so … Read more Frontlist and Backlist
Jesse Shera, Librarianship, and Information Science Jesse Hauk Shera did perhaps more than any other figure in defining library and information science in the mid 20th century. He pioneered the … Read more New book: Jesse Shera, Librarianship, and Information Science
Here is an interview that Emily Drabinski did with Maria Accardi. Maria has a book coming out this summer with Library Juice Press, in the series that Emily edits…. Maria … Read more Interview with Maria Accardi
The 2013 Green Book Festival awarded its top honor in the category of Best Business Book to Greening Libraries, edited by Monika Antonelli and Mark McCullough and published by Library … Read more Greening Libraries Wins Award in the 2013 Green Books Festival