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
Author: Annie Downey Price: $28.00 Published: July 2016 ISBN: 978-1-63400-024-6 Printed on acid-free paper 204 pages Academic librarians are exploring critical information literacy (CIL) in ever increasing numbers. While a … Read more New: Critical Information Literacy: Foundations, Inspiration, and Ideas
Beta Phi Mu, the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society, announced the 2016 scholarship and award winners at their annual business meeting and member reception. This event was held … Read more Beta Phi Mu Announces 2016 Scholarship Winners
From Bernadette Lear and Eric Novotny: **CFP** Libraries: Culture, History, and Society We are delighted to announce that Libraries: Culture, History, and Society is now accepting submissions for our premiere … Read more CFP for a new journal: Libraries: Culture, History, and Society
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information. We are granting this year’s award to Robert … Read more Robert Montoya wins the 2016 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information
About the book Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries will be a collective oral history covering many of the issues in technology in librarianship in the … Read more CFP: Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries
This year, Library Juice and Digital Library Federation (DLF) will sponsor a fellowship and travel award meant to support mid-career professionals in digital libraries and related fields. The Library Juice … Read more 2016 Library Juice + DLF Forum Fellowship
Some pics from our booth at ALA… Our booth, with Michelle Montalbano Books Our booth, with Lacey Torge Michelle Caroline Gardner and Liz Lieutenant Aliqae Geraci, holding one of her … Read more Images from our presence at ALA in Orlando
We want to recognize and celebrate that June is GLBT Book Month, and draw attention to a few of our titles: Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and … Read more Celebrating GLBT Book Month – A few of our titles
ALA’s OIF has begun publication of a new journal, the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (JIFP). It replaces and expands the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom (NIF). The table of … Read more New from ALA: Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
Message from Martyn Wade, IFLA-FAIFE chair. (IFLA is the International Federation of Library Organizations, and FAIFE is its Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression.) Dear … Read more IFLA-FAIFE statement on the continuing detention of the Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature
Progressive Community Action: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science Editors: Bharat Mehra and Kevin Rioux Price: $35.00 Published: May 2016 ISBN: 978-1-936117-65-9 Printed on acid-free paper … Read more Progressive Community Action: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science
We are renewing our EveryLibrary “Personal Donor Challenge” for 2016. It’s a challenge grant of $1,000, designed to attract 75 new $10 monthly donors to EveryLibrary. EveryLibrary is a great … Read more EveryLibrary/Library Juice Academy Donor Challenge
Emily Drabinski’s Keynote from the 15th Annual Information Literacy Summit, hosted by DePaul University Libraries and Moraine Valley Community College Library…
In the early 2000s, as Amazon was emerging as a major player in the book world, I understood them as the faceless evil that was killing off the independent bookstore, … Read more Why we like Amazon and generally don’t work with independent bookstores