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
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Calling all Activist-Librarians-to-be!! The MIRIAM BRAVERMAN MEMORIAL PRIZE, a presentation of the Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG), is awarded each year for the best paper about some aspect … Read more CFP: Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize
Call for chapter abstracts for the forthcoming monograph: Mehra, B., & Rioux, K. (Eds.). (2015). Progressive community action: Critical theory and social justice in library and information science. Sacramento, CA: … Read more Call for Chapter Abstracts: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science
Mimi O’Malley oversees development and delivery of professional development courses and workshops through The Learning House, focusing on higher education faculty and administrators. She has also presented workshops on online … Read more Interview with Mimi O’Malley
Robin Hastings is the Director of Technology Services for the North East Kansas Library System. She manages the library’s network, social media, and staff training initiatives there. She has taught … Read more Interview with Robin Hastings
Just very quickly noting a great article in the New Yorker recently, by George Packer: Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books? The article … Read more The New Yorker looks at Amazon and the publishing industry
Valuing Librarianship: Core Values in Theory and Practice: A Special Issue of Library Trends (February 2016) Editors: Selinda A. Berg and Heidi LM Jacobs Leddy Library, University of Windsor ValuingLibrarianship@gmail.com … Read more CFP: Core Values in Theory and Practice: A Special Issue of Library Trends
Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium The University of Toronto, October 18, 2014 Gender and sexuality are two of the critical organizing axes of contemporary life. Alongside and intersecting … Read more Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium
Print-on-demand from kiosks and electronic distribution of the news predicted in 1975…. Here is an excerpt from the 1975 book, Ecotopia, by Ernest “Chick” Callenbach. Thanks to Lincoln Cushing for … Read more Media predictions from 1975 Ecotopia…
Gretchen McCord is an attorney-consultant and educator in the areas of copyright law, privacy law, and legal issues related to social media. Her practice specializes in assisting libraries, educational institutions, … Read more Interview with Gretchen McCord
Jillian Wallis is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA. Her research addresses the data practices of researchers at the Center for Embedded … Read more Interview with Jillian Wallis
Scott La Counte is the head librarian for the Southern California Institute of Technology. He has given presentations on mobile application development at several different conferences, and is the author … Read more Interview with Scott La Counte
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
For Immediate Release Mon, 02/03/2014 Contact: Chase Ollis Program Coordinator ACRL collis@ala.org CHICAGO – Maria T. Accardi, coordinator of library instruction at Indiana University Southeast, is the winner of the … Read more Accardi wins 2014 ACRL WGSS Significant Achievement Award
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
Two certificate programs at Library Juice Academy are starting in February: The Certificate in User Experience (UX) and the Certificate in XML and RDF-Based Systems. Both of these programs are … Read more Two certificate programs starting in February
Debra Lucas-Alfieri has been the Head of Reference and Interlibrary Loan at D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY, since 2002. She has taught for Library Juice Academy a couple of times … Read more Interview with Debra Lucas-Alfieri
Eva Dodsworth is the Geospatial Data Services Librarian at the University of Waterloo Library, where she works with geospatial data services. Eva is also a part-time instructor at a number … Read more Interview with Eva Dodsworth