LJP Reading Groups
Library Juice Press is offering a discount to reading groups – groups of library students or active professionals. This is ideal for the PLG student chapters or even the ALA … Read more LJP Reading Groups
New SRRT Newsletter
The new issue of the SRRT Newsletter is out. It’s issue 164/165, January 2009. A new editor takes the reins with this issue, Myka Kennedy Stephens. It’s got a new … Read more New SRRT Newsletter
Privatizing the Commons: The Commodification of New Deal Public Art
New article by Lincoln Cushing: Privatizing the Commons: The Commodification of New Deal Public Art. Lincoln Cushing is an important person in the world of political graphic art, having put … Read more Privatizing the Commons: The Commodification of New Deal Public Art
Deadline extended for contributions to Celeste West festschrift
Editors K.R. Roberto and Toni Samek have extended the deadline for contributions to the Celeste West festschrift. The new deadline is February 2nd.
LJP Series on Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship
Series on Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship Isabel Espinal, Series Editor Library Juice Press seeks book proposals and manuscripts for a new series, Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship, edited by Isabel Espinal. … Read more LJP Series on Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship
Book of note: technological censorship
Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control, by Raiford Guins. This new book from University of Minnesota Press is about how media technologies are being built for consumers … Read more Book of note: technological censorship
Melvil Dewey, RIP
Melvil Dewey died this day in 1931…
The Green Library Movement
Monika Antonelli has an important article in the new Electronic Green Journal called The Green Library Movement: An Overview and Beyond. Here is the abstract: The creation of green libraries … Read more The Green Library Movement
More on Black Wednesday
Salon.com has also published an article about Black Wednesday and the dire straits that the publishing industry is in: Read It and Weep, by Jason Book. (Click past the ad … Read more More on Black Wednesday
Banned Librarian
Here’s a new blog worth noting: Amy Sonie’s Banned Librarian. Always happy to see a new Left librarian blog. Looks good indeed – substantial and interesting… This is from the … Read more Banned Librarian
Thanks are due…
Often when I send out business correspondence, I feel the necessity to use the first person plural to refer to Library Juice Press and Litwin Books, even though I have … Read more Thanks are due…
Black Wednesday and On…
If you’re interested in changes that the publishing industry has been seeing recently, you’ll want to read Tom Engelhardt’s piece in the current issue of The Nation, titled “Reading in … Read more Black Wednesday and On…
The Izzy Award – Call for Nominations
From the site: The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I. F. Stone, who launched I. F. Stone Weekly in 1953 and exposed government deception, McCarthyism, and racial … Read more The Izzy Award – Call for Nominations
John Miedema reviews Library Juice Concentrate
John Miedema, of the Slow Reading blog and upcoming book, has reviewed my Library Juice Concentrate…. Thanks, John.
The 2008 Falsies Awards
If you’re like me, you’re a librarian in part because you have a passion for the right to information, and by information I mean truth rather than lies. One of … Read more The 2008 Falsies Awards
Shiraz Durrani anthology – Information and Liberation
Just published: Information and Liberation: Writings on the Politics of Information and Librarianship Author: Shiraz Durrani Price: $45.00 (or £22.00) ISBN: 978-0-9802004-0-9 7″ by 10″ 385 Pages Printed on acid-free … Read more Shiraz Durrani anthology – Information and Liberation
Barbara Fister on Google and OA
ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy had its annual retreat this month. Barbara Fister, frequent poster to the ACRL blog and a librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, presented … Read more Barbara Fister on Google and OA
LJP Series on Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship
Series on Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship Emily Drabinski, Series Editor Library Juice Press seeks book proposals and manuscripts for a new series, Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship, edited by … Read more LJP Series on Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship
David Wahl of the Wix Library (Special Libraries)
Here is a link to the March, 1959 issue of Special Libraries, which is Volume 50, Number 3. I’m posting the link because there’s an article in it by my … Read more David Wahl of the Wix Library (Special Libraries)
Against the machine (book review)
Just noting a book review in First Monday, of Lee Siegel’s Against the machine: Being human in the age of electronic media. According to the review, this book is a … Read more Against the machine (book review)