Chapter two of John Miedema’s Slow Reading, “Slow Reading in an Information Ecology,” is now online at the Litwin Books site. The first two paragraphs here: Isaac Asimov (1969) tells … Read more Chapter Two of Slow Reading
The new issue of the SRRT Newsletter has a review of Shiraz Durrani’s book, Information and Liberation: Writings on the Politics of Information and Librarianship. Jenny Bossaller, an Assistant Professor … Read more Review of Shiraz Durrani’s Information and Liberation
Author: John Miedema Price: $12.00 Published: March 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-4-7 Printed on acid-free paper https://litwinbooks.com/slowreading.php In the face of ever-increasing demands for speed-reading of volumes of information fragments, some readers … Read more Slow Reading
Librarians facing an expanse of free time this economic season, please contact me with your project ideas for Library Juice Press. I know from first-hand experience how good unemployment can … Read more Open Invitation
I have a stock of “irregulars” – books in early versions with lots of typos. Anybody want to buy some cheap? $5 a copy plus shipping. Copies of the following … Read more Bargain alert: Typo-laden copies cheap
March is Small Press Month. From the site: Small Press Month is a nationwide celebration highlighting the valuable work produced by independent publishers. Held annually in March, Small Press Month … Read more March is Small Press Month
Richard J. Cox‘s new book is Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations, just out from Litwin Books this January. I searched around and found a … Read more Machines in the Archives
…[T]he question isn’t whether one is neutral, but whether one is independent from control and allowed to pursue free and open inquiry. In a healthy society, professionals would be given … Read more Robert Jensen on library neutrality
I missed this when it came out a month ago in the New York Times Book Review: Caleb Crain has a review of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of … Read more Left Children’s Lit
When you start a business, your thinking starts to change, and sometimes you start to have thoughts you wouldn’t have had before, such as…. So, from now until the end … Read more 25% off on three or more books ’till March 1st
From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory Author: John Ridener Price: $22.00 Published: February 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-5-4 Printed on acid-free paper From Polders to Postmodernism is a … Read more From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory
The services of electricity to libraries, however, are by no means exhausted by the electric light. It is capable of rendering aid even more important, and the more so in … Read more Library Tech, circa 1899
Kathleen de la Peña McCook has linked to a review of David Denby’s new book, Snark, published in Salon recently, aiming her post at a particularly snarky and nasty blogger … Read more Snark
Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling:Readings, Reflections and Ruminations Author: Richard J. Cox Price: $35.00 Published: January 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-7-8 Printed on acid-free paper In Personal Archives and a … Read more Richard J. Cox – Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling
Library Juice Press is offering a discount to reading groups – groups of library students or active professionals. This is ideal for the PLG student chapters or even the ALA … Read more LJP Reading Groups
Editors K.R. Roberto and Toni Samek have extended the deadline for contributions to the Celeste West festschrift. The new deadline is February 2nd.
Series on Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship Isabel Espinal, Series Editor Library Juice Press seeks book proposals and manuscripts for a new series, Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship, edited by Isabel Espinal. … Read more LJP Series on Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship
Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control, by Raiford Guins. This new book from University of Minnesota Press is about how media technologies are being built for consumers … Read more Book of note: technological censorship
If you’re interested in changes that the publishing industry has been seeing recently, you’ll want to read Tom Engelhardt’s piece in the current issue of The Nation, titled “Reading in … Read more Black Wednesday and On…
John Miedema, of the Slow Reading blog and upcoming book, has reviewed my Library Juice Concentrate…. Thanks, John.