Dale Askey, a librarian at McMaster University in Canada, is the one who has been sued by Mellen Press for giving them a bad review. Here are two statements supporting … Read more Two Statements in Support of Dale Askey and McMaster University
I have just done an interview with Katie Cunningham, instructor for two upcoming courses with Library Juice Academy: Connecting with Spanish-Speaking Communities, and Bilingual Storytime at Your Biblioteca. Katie is … Read more Interview with Katie Cunningham
March 2013 Success in First Library Supervisor Position Instructor: Tony Garrett | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175 Introduction to RDA Instructor: Melissa Adler | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: … Read more Library Juice Academy Classes in March and April
This is a good superbowl bet. The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore and the San Francisco Public Library have a good bet going on the outcome of today’s game: … Read more SFPL vs. Enoch Pratt Superbowl Library Bet
Please note that the deadline has been extended to midnight Friday, February 15th *Call for Participation (NASKO 2013) * *Transition Cultures, Transition KO: Evolving Exploration, Critical Reflection, and Practical Work … Read more CfP: Call for Participation (NASKO 2013)
We’ve moved to Sacramento. If you have an address on file for Library Juice Academy, Library Juice Press, Litwin Books, or Auslander & Fox, please update it to the following: … Read more We’ve moved
AAUP has just released its new Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians, a new version of a similar statement drafted in 1973 and reaffirmed a couple … Read more AAUP Backpedals on Faculty Status of Librarians
I was going to call this post, “Gripes of a Vendor,” but then I checked on the author, Rick Anderson, and found that he is not a member of the … Read more Gripes of a Dean
This is just a quick shout-out to Courtney Mlinar and her Library Professional Development blog. She has done a great job with it since taking it over a few months … Read more Library Professional Development Blog
I have just done an interview with Melissa Adler, instructor for Library Juice Academy’s cataloging courses. Melissa is a recent graduate of the PhD program in LIS at the University … Read more Interview with Melissa Adler
Media in Transition 8 (MiT8) Conference dates: May 3-5 (Fri.-Sun.), 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, … Read more Call for Papers: MiT8: Public Media, Private Media
Radical Reference has posted its live video recordings of its Critical Librarianship Symposium in Boston, which was held by the local Radical Reference Collective there on November 17th. Participants in … Read more Critical Librarianship Symposium Boston – Live Recording
There’s a passage that stood out to me in an article I read a few months ago, “Why Must We Be Small? Reflections on Political Development and Cultural Work in … Read more Information and Power
I have just done an interview with Julie Edwards, instructor for our upcoming class, “Diversity Plans for Academic Libraries.” Julie is the Ethnic Studies Librarian and the Multicultural Coordinator at … Read more Interview with Julie Edwards
Library Juice Academy’s “Sponsor a Librarian” program is now set up so that you can give to anyone you like, even if they have not chosen to set up a … Read more Give To Anyone You Like
We haven’t done this in the past, but I think I would like to begin a tradition of sending a “year-end update” to friends and customers. Why now? Probably because … Read more Year-End Message to Friends and Customers
Library Juice Academy is starting a new thing: the Sponsor a Librarian program. If you are an unemployed librarian, you can set up a profile on the project website, which … Read more Sponsor a Librarian
The Unglue.it campaign for Lauren Pressley’s book, So You Want To Be a Librarian, is in its home stretch, which is where the most donations to these campaigns typically come … Read more Acknowledging donors to the Unglue.it campaign