The American Association of Law Libraries is in the midst of a “rebranding” project, and its executive board has just proposed renaming the association the “Association for Legal Information.” As … Read more Fred Shapiro’s statement in opposition to renaming the AALL
When Library Juice Press or Litwin Books signs a contract with an author, the contract is typical for the publishing industry in most ways. One of the commonalities in publishing … Read more A note on our copyright statements
Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy rights activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom … Read more Interview with Alison Macrina
A review of our Handbook of Intellectual Freedom was just published on the website of ADBS, the main library association in France. The review, by Joachim Schöpfel, is in French, … Read more Review of the Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom
Angela Pashia is an Assistant Professor and the Instructional Services Outreach Librarian at the University of West Georgia, where she regularly teaches a credit bearing information literacy course. She has … Read more Interview with Angela Pashia
Call for Proposals Race Matters: Libraries, Racism, and Antiracism LACUNY Institute 2016 Date: May 20, 2016 Location: Brooklyn College, City University of New York Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jelani Cobb Associate … Read more LACUNY Institute Call for Proposals
Catch us at table number 2225 in the exhibits hall at ALA in Boston, January 8th through the 11th. We will have books published by Library Juice Press, as well … Read more Catch us at Midwinter in Boston
Most of the classes listed below are four weeks in length, with a price of $175. We accept registrations through the first week of class. Classes are taught asynchronously, so … Read more Library Juice Academy courses offered in and January, February, and March
Invitation to submit to the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) conference, Congress, Calgary Alberta May 28 – May 31, 2016: Call for Proposals CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, … Read more CFP – CAPAL 2016: Beyond the Library: Agency, Practice, and Society
Library Juice Academy/Library Juice Press is seeking one or more assistants to help us with our presence with our exhibit at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, January 8th through … Read more Seeking Assistant for ALA Midwinter in Boston
ACRL’s University Library Section has a new award, the Outstanding Professional Development Award, which is going to be sponsored annually by Library Juice Academy. Leslie Sult was one of the … Read more Leslie Sult talks about the ACRL/ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award
A couple of paragraphs from Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, from City Lights Books, 2015. Pages 108 and 109: Wars begin and end. Empires rise and fall. … Read more Snippet from Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Established in 2015, this award is intended to recognize librarians, archivists or curators whose contributions to providing professional development opportunities for librarians have been especially noteworthy or influential. The effect … Read more ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award
by Emily Drabinski I spend a lot of time in critical librarian spaces. I am an active tweeter in the #critlib community. I’m organizing a colloquium on critical perspectives on … Read more What about the iceberg?
National Diversity in Libraries Conference August 10-13, 2016 v UCLA CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: November 30, 2015 The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC ’16), co-sponsored by the UCLA Library … Read more CFP: National Diversity in Libraries Conference
CFP: Radical Teaching and Archives To create, maintain, and control an archive is to establish facts and exercise power. Archives consolidate objects as sources of knowledge, and in so doing, … Read more CFP: Radical Teaching and Archives
IEEE Potentials is seeking contributions to a special issue guest edited by Ramona Pringle, Katina Michael and MG Michael. The theme of the issue is: “Unintended Consequences: the Paradox of … Read more CFP: Unintended Consequences: the Paradox of Technological Potential (IEEE Potentials)
The Psychology of Librarianship Editors: Lynn Gullickson Spencer, Leanne VandeCreek, and H. Stephen Wright Price: $45.00 Published: November 2015 ISBN: 978-1-63400-016-1 406 pages Printed on acid-free paper Available for pre-order … Read more New book: The Psychology of Librarianship
Islands in the Cyberstream Seeking Havens of Reason in a Programmed Society Author: Joseph Weizenbaum with Gunna Wendt Translator: Benjamin Fasching-Gray Price: $28.00 ISBN: 978-1-63400-000-0 Published: October 2015 Printed on … Read more New Book by Joseph Weizenbaum
Lauren Hays is the Instructional and Research Librarian and the Co-Director of the Center for Games and Learning at MidAmerica Nazarene University. She holds an undergraduate degree in education, a … Read more Interview with Lauren Hays