Data Mining
Libraryland is a-buzz about a new role we can play in the pursuit of scientific knowledge: data curation. Data curation serves, in particular, the new scientific methodology that goes under … Read more Data Mining
Interview with Jennifer Szunko, director of paid-review service Clarion Review
Rory Litwin: I’m talking with Jennifer Szunko, Clarion Services Director. Jennifer offered to be interviewed for Library Juice to talk about Clarion’s services in doing paid reviews for authors and … Read more Interview with Jennifer Szunko, director of paid-review service Clarion Review
CFP – 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization
CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization June 15 – 16, 2012 Milwaukee, WI Information organization, like other major functions of the information professions, faces … Read more CFP – 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization
Valuing the People’s Knowledge
Last month in Varanasi, India, the First International Conference of Lokavidya Jan Andolan, or the Peoples’ Knowledge Movement, was held. The original call for participation talked about the situation of … Read more Valuing the People’s Knowledge
New York Times on Fancy Books
Julie Bosman writes in the New York Times about a logical new development in book publishing: finer quality, fancy print books to compete with e-books. What is not expected about … Read more New York Times on Fancy Books
Occupying the First Amendment
The recent assaults by the police on various Occupy movement encampments highlight the tenuousness of our right to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances. Certainly, there is … Read more Occupying the First Amendment
New Address for Library Juice Press and Litwin Books
New address for us: Library Juice Press (or Litwin Books) PO Box 25322 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Mail sent to our PO Box in Duluth, Minnesota will still reach us, … Read more New Address for Library Juice Press and Litwin Books
Local Indie Bookstores
We’re intimately familiar with the pressures on public libraries, and worried about closures and reductions of service. Independent bookstores have it worse, for a number of reasons. Indie bookstores’ fortunes … Read more Local Indie Bookstores
Google Books American English Corpus
I want to share a fascinating resource I found: the Google Books corpus of American English, 155 billion words in size. Obviously too big to download, so for analysis purposes … Read more Google Books American English Corpus
Library Juice Press/Litwin Books Gift Certificates
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/Litwin Books Gift Certificates
Books Don’t Take You Anywhere
Great Onion article lampooning those among us who lack imagination: “Books Don’t Take You Anywhere” WASHINGTON, DC—A study released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education revealed that, contrary to … Read more Books Don’t Take You Anywhere
Podcast: Archives and Activism: The Contemporary Turn
Podcast on “Archives and Activism: The Contemporary Turn,” from a panel discussion moderated by Emily Drabinski and featuring some others you may know. From the site: Over the past two … Read more Podcast: Archives and Activism: The Contemporary Turn
Alison Lewis Honored at National Distance Education Week
Just a tip of the hat to our friend and fellow Library Juice blogger Alison Lewis, who was honored at the National Distance Learning Week Awards Ceremony as an outstanding … Read more Alison Lewis Honored at National Distance Education Week
Call for Chapters: Piracy: Leakages from Modernity
Call for Chapters Piracy: Leakages From Modernity Edited by Martin Fredriksson (Linköping University) and James Arvanitakis (University of Western Sydney) Published by Litwin Books We are inviting proposals for chapters … Read more Call for Chapters: Piracy: Leakages from Modernity
CFP: Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
CFP: Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (An Edited Collection to be published as part of the Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies) Litwin … Read more CFP: Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Students at the University of Denver Want Books
Here is a guest post from Julie Teglovic, an MLIS student at the University of Denver, where students have been protesting a decision regarding the library… Library as Space: University … Read more Students at the University of Denver Want Books
Kierkegaard on impact factors
I was just reading a bit of Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript, and came across a section that I think applies to the bibliometric obsessions with impact factors, h- and g-indexes, … Read more Kierkegaard on impact factors
Alan Mattlage reviews Slow Reading
New Library Juice blogger Alan Mattlage has posted a review of John Miedema’s Slow Reading on his own blog, books, etc. While we’re on the topic of John’s book, I … Read more Alan Mattlage reviews Slow Reading
Looted Books
This post dovetails coincidentally with Rory’s 10/22 post about the solidarity library in Bethlehem – looks like it’s Israel/Palestine week at Library Juice. Hannah Mermelstein, a school librarian in New … Read more Looted Books