You will probably be hearing more about Weibo, a Chinese social networking site that combines aspects of Twitter and Facebook and presently has, at a minimum, 140 million users, which … Read more Tension over Weibo, the Chinese Twitter
Some of my colleagues in the Progressive Librarians Guild used to complain that Banned Books Week was an unfortunate distraction from the greater problem of a propagandistic media system. I … Read more My problem with Banned Books Week
Daniel Ellsberg spoke at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans this summer, about the current world situation and libraries. ALA’s Leonard Kniffel followed up with this on-camera … Read more Daniel Ellsberg interviewed by ALA’s Leonard Kniffel
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is coming to the defense of biologist Charles Monnett, who is being hounded by the Interior Department because of a 2006 publication that communicated alarming … Read more Suppression of science has continued, despite Obama’s Scientific Integrity Initiative
2012 Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Call for Proposals The 2012 Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, JCLC 2012: Gathering at the Waters: Celebrating Stories and Embracing Communities will … Read more CFP: 2012 Joint Conference of Librarians of Color
CFP: Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection) Editors: Shana Higgins and Lua Gregory are instruction and reference librarians at University of Redlands. They recently co-taught … Read more CFP: Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection)
After doing Library Juice as a solo project for twelve and a half years, I have decided it should be a team blog, and I have recruited a group of … Read more Meet the Library Juice bloggers
As a friend pointed out to me that The Daily Show has noted, the debate about the debt ceiling is ongoing because of a bullshit problem. I realized this while … Read more The bullshit problem #debtceiling
At my university, there is a group of student tour guides who give tours of the campus to prospective students and their families. The library is included in their tour, … Read more Overheard
Litwin Books PO Box 3320 Duluth, MN 55803 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Subject: Library Juice Press announces appointment of Alison M. Lewis, Ph.D. as Chief Acquisitions Editor. Duluth, MN — July … Read more Alison M. Lewis new Chief Acquisitions Editor for Library Juice Press
Call for Manuscripts for Special issue of Multicultural Review Libraries as a public good in 21st century multicultural societies: Policy and the politics of literacy, libraries and librarianship Guest Editors: … Read more Call for Manuscripts for Special issue of Multicultural Review
We finished our 2011 catalog in time to bring it to the American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans last weekend. We now have it available for download on … Read more 2011 Catalog
Julia Skinner has posted a thoughtful review of Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods to her blog. Her review will give readers a good sense of whether the books is … Read more Julia Skinner reviews Critical Library Instruction
McMaster University Librarian Jeff Trzeciak’s recently revealed in a talk at Penn State that he plans not to hire librarians in the future at his library, setting off a firestorm … Read more University of Alberta PLG on McMaster University Librarian Jeff Trzeciak’s rather open comments
Sue Halpern has a review essay in the new issue of the New York Review of Books titled “Mind Control & the Internet, in which she reviews You Are Not … Read more Sue Halpern on People and Machines
Just sharing this link to a nice-sized collection of articles on media studies and media ecology, most with a Canadian-theory slant. These articles are not heavy reading, and provide a … Read more Articles on Canadian Media Studies
We have just posted Ron Day’s introduction to Philippe Breton’s book, The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult: Social Fears and Religious Fantasies to the Litwin Books … Read more Ron Day’s introduction to The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult
Genre in Theory, Practice and Research Call for Papers: Archival Science Genre can be defined as a pattern of communication that conforms to community norms. Genres are not fixed, but … Read more Call for Papers: Genre in Theory, Practice and Research (Archival Science)
Noted as an example of what I think can be called political censorship in the American South: “GSC professor teaches the importance of art as his own work comes under … Read more Political art censored in Gainesville, GA
Librarians have responded to the internet and other technologies that have reduced people’s demand for our services in a couple of complementary ways over the past 20 years or so … Read more Turning the Reference Desk into a Reference Bureau