Category: About Litwin Books & Library Juice Press

Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from Abkhazia to Zanzibar

by RoryLitwin

Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from Abkhazia to Zanzibar Author: Christopher F. Roth Price: $75.00 ISBN: 978-1-936117-99-4 Published: March 1st, 2015 634 pages Printed on acid-free paper Publisher: Litwin Books This full color reference book is an entertaining and informative look at contemporary struggles for independence around the world. … Read more Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from Abkhazia to Zanzibar

Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González

by RoryLitwin

Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González Authors: Abdul Alkalimat and Kate Williams Price: $35.00 Published: February 2015 ISBN: 978-1-936117-64-2 Printed on acid-free paper This book introduces North Americans and other general readers to 1) the role of Afro-Cubans in Cuban history and culture, particularly in the 20th … Read more Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González

Emily Drabinski reports on the recent Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium

by RoryLitwin

Emily Drabinski, co-organizer of the recent Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium at the University of Toronto, has done a nice writeup about the event for the Metropolitan New York Library Council: DECIDING WHAT GOES WHERE AND WHY: GENDER STUDIES AND LIBRARIANSHIP By Emily Drabinski, Coordinator of Library Instruction, Long Island University, Brooklyn At … Read more Emily Drabinski reports on the recent Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium

Seeking an assistant or two for ALA Midwinter

by RoryLitwin

Library Juice Academy/Library Juice Press is seeking one or more assistants to help us with our presence with our exhibit at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago, January 30th through February 2nd, 2015. This will involve helping us set up and break down the booth, assisting us in staffing the booth, and ideally some help … Read more Seeking an assistant or two for ALA Midwinter

Second Annual Library Juice Paper Contest Winner

by RoryLitwin

Library Juice Press is happy to announce the winner of the Second Annual Library Juice Paper Contest. Michelle Caswell’s paper, titled, “Inventing New Archival Imaginaries: Theoretical Foundations for Identity-Based Community Archives,” was judged by the award jury to be the best paper out of 25 submitted in this year’s contest, in a blind process in … Read more Second Annual Library Juice Paper Contest Winner

In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada

by RoryLitwin

In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada Editors: Jennifer Dekker and Mary Kandiuk Price: $40.00 Published: October 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-62-8 With a focus on Canada, this collection provides a historical and current perspective regarding the unionization of academic librarians, an exploration of some of the major labour issues affecting academic librarians … Read more In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada

New book: Critical Journeys: How 14 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practice

by RoryLitwin

Critical JourneysHow 14 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practice Author/Editor: Robert Schroeder Price: $28.00 Published: September 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-92-5 A growing number of librarians are engaged with critical theories such as critical pedagogy, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, or post-colonialism. Because librarians have backgrounds in all disciplines and inhabit a uniquely central space … Read more New book: Critical Journeys: How 14 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practice

Call for Submissions: Series on Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in LIS

by RoryLitwin

Series on Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in LIS Sujei Lugo, Series Editor Litwin Books and Library Juice Press seek book proposals and manuscripts for a new series, Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in Library and Information Studies, edited by Sujei Lugo. This series aims to collect and publish works from theoretical, practical and personal … Read more Call for Submissions: Series on Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in LIS

Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest

by RoryLitwin

Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest The intention of this contest is to encourage and reward good work in the field of library and information studies, humanistically understood, through a monetary award and public recognition. The contest is open to librarians, library students, academics, and others. Acceptable paper topics cover the full range of topics … Read more Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest

Conference Agenda – Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies

by RoryLitwin

Litwin Books has organized a colloquium to take place this October at the University of Toronto, based on our book, Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader. The colloquium is called Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies (named after Emily Drabinski’s series with Litwin Books). We have recently posted the schedule of presentations, so you can … Read more Conference Agenda – Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies

Patrick Gavin Receives the 2014 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information

by RoryLitwin

Award Announcement July 1, 2014 We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information. We are granting this year’s award to Patrick Gavin of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, based on his dissertation proposal, … Read more Patrick Gavin Receives the 2014 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information

Piracy: Leakages from Modernity

by RoryLitwin

Piracy: Leakages from Modernity Editors: Martin Fredriksson and James Arvanitakis Price: $40.00 Published: July 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-59-8 Printed on acid-free paper Available on Amazon “Piracy” is a concept that seems everywhere in the contemporary world. From the big screen with the dashing Jack Sparrow, to the dangers off the coast of Somalia; from the claims … Read more Piracy: Leakages from Modernity

Free exhibits pass to visit our booth at ALA

by RoryLitwin

We’re exhibiting at ALA in Las Vegas later this month, showing our books and talking to people about Library Juice Academy. We want to give you a free pass to the exhibits hall if you want to come visit us there. If you’re already registered for the conference you won’t need an exhibits pass, but … Read more Free exhibits pass to visit our booth at ALA

H-Net review of Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era

by RoryLitwin

Andrew Salvati of H-Net has written a review of the Litwin Books title, Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era, by Amy Reynolds and Gary Hicks. His review starts like this: Comcast, Disney, NewsCorp, TimeWarner–in the second decade of the twenty-first century, the corporate parentage and commercialization of American … Read more H-Net review of Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era

New: The Book Collecting Practices of Black Magazine Editors

by RoryLitwin

The Book Collecting Practices of Black Magazine Editors Author: Thomas Weissinger Price: $16.00 Published: May 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-63-5 Printed on acid-free paper Published by Litwin Books The Book Collecting Practices of Black Magazine Editors focuses on the collecting habits and personal libraries of three black magazine editors. Ben Burns and Era Bell Thompson were editors … Read more New: The Book Collecting Practices of Black Magazine Editors