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
Library Juice Press / Litwin Books gift certificates are great as personal gifts or as library-related awards. You can pay for a gift certificate in an amount of your … Read more Library Juice Press Gift Certificates
Beyond Article 19: Libraries and Social and Cultural Rights Editors: Julie Biando Edwards and Stephan P. Edwards Price: $28.00 Published: October 2010 ISBN: 978-1-936117-19-2 Printed on acid-free paper Beyond Article … Read more Beyond Article 19: Libraries and Social and Cultural Rights
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece about “link rot” within scholarly journal articles, which was the topic of our recent book by Michael Bugeja and Daniela Dimitrova, Vanishing … Read more CHE interviews Michael Bugeja
Our full list of books is now available in e-book form, in the Adobe Digital Editions format. We have links from our site to the Powells.com page for each e-book. … Read more LJP e-books: Proof that we don’t hate change
Introduction [Book information] June 10, 2009: James von Brunn logged off his Packard Bell computer, grabbed his keys and strode out the door of his son’s Annapolis apartment. He … Read more A Space for Hate: The White Power Movement’s Adaptation into Cyberspace
From time to time here at Library Juice Press we build up a stock of imperfect copies that we can’t sell on the regular retail market. They might be returns … Read more Bargain books (error copies at half price)
Bill Brahms of Reference Desk Press (a librarian publisher like myself) has just released his company’s second book: Last Words of Notable People. It is much more than a complement … Read more Last Words of Notable People
At Litwin Books and Library Juice Press we have a number of projects sitting on back burners awaiting the right authors to get them going. I will list some here, … Read more Seeking Authors
Chapter one of Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age, by Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova, is now online: Extinct Citations, … Read more Extinct Citations, Missing Links and Other Bibliographical Wonders
Jeremy Dibble, of the PhiloBiblos blog, has reviewed John Miedema’s book, Slow Reading, which was published by Litwin Books last year. I am late in linking to the review. Jeremy … Read more Jeremy Dibble reviews Slow Reading
Richard J. Cox of the University of Pittsburgh i-School has posted a review of Michael Bugeja and Daniela Dimitrova’s Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship … Read more Richard J. Cox reviews Vanishing Act
The New York Times has reported that Tony Judt has died. I have been a regular reader of Tony Judt’s columns in the New York Review of Books and saw … Read more Tony Judt has died
If you buy 5 or more of our books we’ll give you 30% off the price, ’till the end of the month. Just contact us at inquiries@libraryjuicepress.com to place an … Read more Buy 5 or more books and get 30% off in August
If Library Juice Press were to set up a symposium for reflections on Jesse Shera’s 1972 book Foundations of Education for Librarianship, who would you like to see participating? The … Read more Question for readers
Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age Authors: Michael Bugeja and Daniela Dimitrova Price: $18.00 Published: Summer 2010 ISBN: 978-1-936117-14-7 Printed on … Read more New Book: Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age
Malcolm Jones has an article in Newsweek’s online version (June 23) titled, “Slow Reading: An Antidote for a Fast World?” John Miedema’s book Slow Reading is hotlinked and the author … Read more Slow Reading in Newsweek
The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education in the Modern Corporate University Author: Richard J. Cox Price: $35.00 Published: June 2010 ISBN: 978-1-936117-18-5 Printed on acid-free … Read more New Book: The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education in the Modern Corporate University
I’ve been reflecting on our latest title, She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West, and its meaning for me within my overall publishing endeavors, and I think that the right … Read more Putting up a tent