Bill McKibben to speak at ALA
Message from Al Kagan to the SRRTAC-L list: We are excited to announce that Bill McKibben will be a featured speaker at ALA Annual 2017! Bill McKibben is an author, … Read more Bill McKibben to speak at ALA
Message from Al Kagan to the SRRTAC-L list: We are excited to announce that Bill McKibben will be a featured speaker at ALA Annual 2017! Bill McKibben is an author, … Read more Bill McKibben to speak at ALA
CFP: Call for Proposals CAPAL17: Foundations & Futures: Critical Reflections on the Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities of Academic Librarianship CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Meeting – May 30 – June 1, 2017 Congress … Read more CFP: CAPAL17: Foundations & Futures: Critical Reflections on the Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities of Academic Librarianship
The School of Library and Information Science, along with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is offering a study-abroad opportunity in CUBA! If you are interested in exploring new … Read more Kent State LIS Study-Abroad in Cuba
Call for Proposals Data & Ethics Information Ethics Roundtable 2017 April 21-22 Proposals Due: January 2, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2017 https://ier2017.wordpress.com In our knowledge society, our networked … Read more CFP: Information Ethics Roundtable 2017
Library Juice Press and Library Juice Academy are looking for someone, or maybe a couple of people, to help us out with our presence in the exhibits hall during ALA … Read more Seeking helper(s) for ALA Midwinter in Atlanta
Call for Papers Urban Library Journal (ULJ) is an open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal of research that addresses all aspects of urban libraries and librarianship. Urban Library Journal invites submissions … Read more CFP: Urban Library Journal
Tonight’s #critlib discussion is about the “history of critical librarianship.” The moderators give some suggested readings and additional ones for further exploration, a couple of which I would not have … Read more Some supplemental readings on #critlib history
PRESS RELEASE October 1, 2016 Sacramento, CA Library Juice Press is happy to announce the winner of the Fourth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest. Lisa Sloniowski’s paper, titled, “Affective Labor, … Read more Lisa Sloniowski wins Fourth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest
Litwin Books provides financial support to scholars in LIS and related fields for travel to conferences they attend, domestically or internationally. Travel grants are limited to $500 for domestic conferences … Read more Travel grant opportunity – Deadline November 1st
CHICAGO – The ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services (ODLOS)is launching Intersections, a new blog that highlights the everyday work of library and information science workers as they … Read more ODLOS launches Intersections, calls for contributors
Message from Michael Matthews, Progressive Librarian Book Review Editor: Dear Progressive Library Workers: Do you like balmy summer late afternoons, listening to the crickets chirp as you paddle a canoe … Read more Call for book reviewers for Progressive Librarian
From: Clara Chu to multiple lists Subject: The Mortenson Center Launches Libraries for Peace Initiative [please forward as appropriate] The Mortenson Center warmly invites libraries and librarians around the world … Read more The Mortenson Center Launches Libraries for Peace Initiative
CFP: Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS Editors: Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho Literature on diversity in librarianship has mainly focused on recruitment and increasing … Read more CFP: Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS
This is a position for an independent contractor (so really a business relationship rather than a position), where the successful candidate would do straightforward research projects for Library Juice Press … Read more Research Assistant Sought
From: Mary Ghikas Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 3:14 PM To: ala-allstaff Subject: FW: ALA Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation Webinars On behalf of Peter Hepburn, chair … Read more ALA Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation Webinars
Annie Downey has agreed to do an interview with me about her new book with Library Juice Press. Dr. Downey is Associate College Librarian and Director of Research Services at … Read more Interview with Annie Downey about her new book, Critical Information Literacy
Message from Diedre Conkling… Believe it or not it is now time to start thinking about whether or not you would like to run for a position on SRRT Action … Read more Positions open on SRRT Action Council
World Libraries — a peer-reviewed, open access LIS journal published by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois — invites submissions on … Read more World Libraries (CFP)
Editors: Erik Estep and Nathaniel Enright Price: $28.00 Published: July 2016 ISBN: 978-1-936117-74-1 Printed on acid-free paper 186 pages The current crisis of capitalism has led to the renewed interest … Read more Class and Librarianship: Essays at the Intersection of Information, Labor and Capital
In the past couple of years, social justice issues in librarianship have come to the fore, led by the #critlib conversations on Twitter. I have felt that much of this … Read more Interview with Elaine Harger, PLG co-founder