Press release 8/17/2018 Media contact: Rory Litwin, rory@litwinbooks.com We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information. … Read more Chris Hubbles wins 2018 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information
Hate is on the rise in the United States. According to a report issued this year by the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2017 the number of hate groups nationally … Read more SRRT Action Council Statement on Hate Speech and Libraries
Never Neutral: a zine resisting hate groups in libraries is seeking submissions of non-fiction, poetry, photography, and art. Digital copies will be emailed in early August for printing and distribution. … Read more Call for zine submissions: Never Neutral
We Can Do I.T.: Women in Library Information Technology Editors: Jenny Brandon, Sharon Ladenson, and Kelly Sattler Price: $22.00 Published: July 2018 ISBN: 978-1-63400-053-6 Number ten in the Litwin Books … Read more New book: We Can Do I.T.: Women in Library Information Technology
Download a PDF version of the Call for Papers for the issue on Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Guest Editors: John Burgess, Robert D. Montoya, Eira Tansey As stewards … Read more Deadline Extended for Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene – JCLIS special issue
2018 theme: Libraries in a Time of Crisis August 25, 2018 Sacramento, CA Hosted by Rory Litwin This is an experiment that I hope will work. A very small, one … Read more Library Juice Summer Symposium
Press Release from Connected Communities and Library Juice Academy Stories, Songs, and Stretches! Online Certification Launching Spring 2019 June 21, 2018 Lexington KY Media contact: Katie Scherrer, www.katiescherreryoga.com Katie Scherrer … Read more Stories, Songs, and Stretches! Online Certification Launching Spring 2019
Call for proposals Advances in Library Administration and Organization Critical Librarianship and Library Management Publication due 2020 Series Editor: Samantha Hines, Peninsula College Volume Editor: David Ketchum, University of Oregon … Read more CFP: Critical Librarianship and Library Management
Al Kagan ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table Abstract This article is a five-year update to the author’s book, Progressive Library Organizations: A Worldwide History, published by McFarland in 2015. It … Read more Progressive Library Organizations Update, 2013-2017
Author: Tim Deppe Price: $28.00 Published: June 2018 ISBN: 978-1-63400-019-2 Printed on acid-free paper 436 pages Since 1994, Tim Deppe has been working through his small 501(c)(3) non-profit, Bookseed, to … Read more New: Little Gardens of Words: Bookseed’s Stories of Travel and Service
Working Title: Sexuality in Libraries Editors: Brian Flaherty and Alana Kumbier Publisher: Library Juice Press Deadline for proposals, extended: November 1st, 2018 Access to information about sex, and platforms for … Read more CFP: Sexuality in Libraries
Love Activism Author: Stacy Shotsberger Russo Price: $15.00 Published: May 2018 ISBN: 978-1-63400-055-0 Printed on acid-free paper 136 pages Love Activism presents a daily, radical activism of kindness and a … Read more New book: Love Activism
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thurs., May 10, 2018 Contact: Rory Litwin Phone: 916-905-0291 Email: rory@libraryjuicepress.com Betsy Diamant-Cohen Awarded the Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries SACRAMENTO – Betsy Diamant-Cohen has been … Read more Betsy Diamant-Cohen Awarded the Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries
Human Operators: A Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives Editor: Melissa Morrone Price: $35.00 Published: May 2018 ISBN: 978-1-63400-032-1 394 pages Human Operators: A Critical Oral History … Read more New book: Human Operators: A Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives
Radical Empathy in Archival Practice Download a PDF version of the Call for Papers for the issue on Radical Empathy in Archival Practice In their 2016 article From Human Rights … Read more Radical Empathy in Archival Practice (JCLIS special issue)
1. Nature of the Award 1.1 The award shall consist of $1,000, given annually to a graduate student who is working on a dissertation on the philosophy of information (broadly … Read more Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information
The MIRIAM BRAVERMAN MEMORIAL PRIZE, a presentation of the Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG), is awarded each year for the best paper about an aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, … Read more Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize
Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship Editors: Shannon Tharp and Sommer Browning Price: $22.00 Published: April 2018 ISBN: 978-1-63400-028-4 204 pages Poet-Librarians in the Library of … Read more New book: Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship
Call for Chapter Proposals Working Title: Deconstructing Service in Libraries: intersections of identities and expectations Editors: Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby Submission Deadline: July 15, 2018 Publisher: Library Juice … Read more CFP: Deconstructing Service in Libraries: intersections of identities and expectations
Editors: Ulrich Herb and Joachim Schöpfel Price: $35.00 Published: April 2018 ISBN: 978-1-63400-029-1 Printed on acid-free paper Open access has transformed the traditional way of scientific communication. Open repositories and … Read more New book: Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access