A little self-promotion here. A few things coming up: On Saturday, March 7, I’ll be giving the keynote lecture at the Fourth Annual SIRLS Graduate Student Symposium at the University of Arizona. On Wednesday, March 18th, I’ll be doing a poster session at the Midwest Library Technology Conference, at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. … Read more Upcoming presentations and publications by Rory Litwin
Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling:Readings, Reflections and Ruminations Author: Richard J. Cox Price: $35.00 Published: January 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-7-8 Printed on acid-free paper In Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations, Richard J. Cox argues that personal archives might be assuming a new importance in society. As the technical … Read more Richard J. Cox – Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling
If you’re a Twitter user, feel free to follow me @rorylitwin. I just signed up for it. The feed won’t be too busy, and will be just a bit personal, in that I will actually answer that “what are you doing” question in a concrete way from time to time, and I will say what … Read more Tweets
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 student chapters out there, students who want to read a book together and discuss it. The discount is 25% off on four or more copies … Read more LJP Reading Groups
Editors K.R. Roberto and Toni Samek have extended the deadline for contributions to the Celeste West festschrift. The new deadline is February 2nd.
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. This series aims to publish works from practical, theoretical and personal perspectives that critically engage issues of cultural and racial diversity, and cultural and racial … Read more LJP Series on Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship
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 no employees, strictly speaking, simply because it is what people expect from a business entity. But when I reflect on all the people who have … Read more Thanks are due…
John Miedema, of the Slow Reading blog and upcoming book, has reviewed my Library Juice Concentrate…. Thanks, John.
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 paper. Information and Liberation is a retrospective collection of Shiraz Durrani’s articles and conference papers on the politics of information. The book documents the struggle … Read more Shiraz Durrani anthology – Information and Liberation
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 Emily Drabinski. This series will publish works from both practical and theoretical perspectives that critically engage issues in the LIS field related to gender and … Read more LJP Series on Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship
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 maternal grandpa’s cousin, David R. Wahl, about the then-new Wix Library at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, of which he was the founding … Read more David Wahl of the Wix Library (Special Libraries)
What’s that under the tree?? It’s a little magic, from Litwin Books and Library Juice Press… … Read more Add a little magic to your holidays…
Coming in the next six of months from Library Juice Press: Information and Liberation: Writings on the Politics of Information and Librarianship, by Shiraz Durrani Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book, compiled by Rory Litwin and edited by Martin Wallace So You Want To Be a Librarian, by Lauren Pressley Coming in the … Read more Forthcoming Books
Make a note to yourself to mark your 2009 calendar when you buy one: Library Juice Press and Litwin Books will be having a reception during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago in 2009, at Quimby’s Bookstore, on Saturday, July 11th, 7pm. Quimby’s is a little off the beaten path, but it’s a very cool … Read more LJP at ALA in Chicago next July
Canadian and UK readers who’ve wanted to buy Library Juice Press books domestically now can, through Chapters, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.co.uk. Our website now links to pages on those sites for each of our books.
Marie Benoit is the widow of Gaëtan Benoît, author of the posthumously-published Eugène Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France. She wrote the following paragraphs describing her husband and the process of writing the book, which was originally his thesis for Fellowship in the Library Association (UK), in the 1970’s. —————————– I must confess that … Read more Marie Benoit on Gaetan Benoit and Eugene Morel…
New from Litwin Books: This study is a critical account of the works of Eugène Morel (1869-1934), a French Librarian who, along the lines of such eminent public library pioneers as Edward Edwards and Melvil Dewey, made a remarkable contribution towards the development of public librarianship in France. Morel was genuinely interested in all facets … Read more Eugene Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France
Dr. Richard J. Cox, head of the archives track at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has posted a review of Lara Jennifer Moore’s Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France. I find it an intelligent review that gives a clear sense of … Read more Richard Cox reviews Lara Moore’s Restoring Order
From Erik Estep, sent out by email today: Hello Everyone, I’m very pleased to announce the Library Juice Book Club. Here are the details: (1) The first book is Questioning Library Neutrality, edited by Alison Lewis. The anthology covers a lot of ground an will give us much to discuss. If you are at interested … Read more Library Juice Book Club
If you’d like to purchase Questioning Library Neutrality for your library but need to supply a review from a mainstream source in order to justify it, the answer is here. In the July issue of Library Journal there is a nice review of the book that should do the trick.