Category: People In Focus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Contact: Rory Litwin Phone: 916-905-0291 Email: rory@libraryjuicepress.com SACRAMENTO – Jesse Carliner and Kyla Everall have been selected as the winner of the 2020 Alexandre Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries, in recognition of their Family Study Space project at the University of Toronto Library. While offering designated spaces … Read more Jesse Carliner and Kyla Everall Selected for the Alexandre Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries

PRESS RELEASE October 1, 2018 Sacramento, CA Library Juice Press is happy to announce the winner of the Sixth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest. Gracen Brilmyer’s paper, titled, “Archival assemblages: applying disability studies’ political/relational model to archival description,” published in Archival Science, was judged by the award jury to be the best paper out of … Read more Gracen Brilmyer Wins Sixth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest

David Hudson Wins Fifth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest PRESS RELEASE October 1, 2017 Sacramento, CA Library Juice Press is happy to announce the winner of the Fifth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest. David James Hudson’s paper, titled, “On ‘Diversity’ as Anti-Racism in Library and Information Studies: A Critique,” published in the Journal of Critical … Read more David Hudson Wins Fifth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest

From ACRL’s press release: “The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is pleased to announce that Alanna Aiko Moore, academic liaison coordinator and librarian for sociology, ethnic studies, and gender studies at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), has been chosen to receive the 2017 University Libraries Sections (ULS) Outstanding Professional Development Award. “The … Read more Alanna Aiko Moore wins the 2017 ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award

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 new discussion could benefit from greater awareness of work that has gone on in the past in relation to social justice and libraries, and continuing … Read more Interview with Elaine Harger, PLG co-founder

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 on Saturday, June 24th, in conjunction with the American Libraries Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. The Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are $3,000 awards … Read more Beta Phi Mu Announces 2016 Scholarship Winners

As you may know if you read my interview with Mandy Henk a year ago, I am a big fan of hers. She is the author of Ecology, Economy, Equity: The Path to a Carbon-Neutral Library, published by ALA Editions, and an academic librarian now living in Auckland, New Zealand. A few days ago she … Read more Mandy Henk’s Hikuwai Event: What is Critical Librarianship?