I have just interviewed Marcus Banks, who is the Director of Library/Academic & Instructional Innovation at Samuel Merritt University. He has a strong interest in new and alternative methods of quantitatively assessing scholarly work, and that is roughly the subject area of the class he is teaching for Library Juice Academy next month: Digital Scholarship: … Read more Interview with Marcus Banks
John Chrastka is the former membership director at the American Library Association, and has left that position recently to start a political action committee for library advocacy purposes, called Every Library. This organization is about three months old at this point. I had heard of it and realized that I didn’t know anything about it, … Read more Interview with John Chrastka, Executive Director of the Every Library PAC
I have just interviewed Emily Drabinski, instructor for the upcoming Library Juice Academy course, Working Faster, Working Smarter: Productivity Strategies for Librarians. Emily is also co-editor of Critical Library Instruction: Theories & Methods (Library Juice Press, 2010), and edits a book series from Litwin Books/Library Juice Press. Our interview gives a clear description of what … Read more Interview with Emily Drabinski
I have just done an interview with Aliqae Geraci, instructor for the upcoming Library Juice Academy course, Team-Based Work Structures and Productivity. The interview gives the background to the workshop and the instructor, and gets a bit into her other interests. As a personal note, judging from my previous experience in libraries and what I … Read more Interview with Aliqae Geraci
Library Juice Academy Webinar Series: What’s New with Gary Price In these fast-paced sessions Gary Price shares a handful of the latest and most useful web resources, tools, and search techniques he’s been posting and sharing on LJ’s infoDOCKET. Plus, each session focuses on a special topic loaded with resources and discussion. Topics include online … Read more Webinar Series: What’s New with Gary Price
I have just done an interview with Rebecca Blakiston, instructor for the upcoming Library Juice Academy course, Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing. This will be Rebecca’s second time teaching this course for us. In the interview she tells us about her background and qualifications for teaching the course, the content of the course, and some of her … Read more Interview with Rebecca Blakiston
Dale Askey, a librarian at McMaster University in Canada, is the one who has been sued by Mellen Press for giving them a bad review. Here are two statements supporting him, one from the Association of Research Libraries and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and the other from the British Columbia Library Association… ARL-CARL … Read more Two Statements in Support of Dale Askey and McMaster University
I have just done an interview with Katie Cunningham, instructor for two upcoming courses with Library Juice Academy: Connecting with Spanish-Speaking Communities, and Bilingual Storytime at Your Biblioteca. Katie is a library consultant and training specialist whose work focuses on improving library services to Latino and Spanish-speaking children and families. I enjoyed interviewing her, and … Read more Interview with Katie Cunningham
We’ve moved to Sacramento. If you have an address on file for Library Juice Academy, Library Juice Press, Litwin Books, or Auslander & Fox, please update it to the following: PO Box 188784 Sacramento, CA 95818 The telephone number remains 218-260-6115, and email addresses are also unchanged. We can see the Capitol Building from the … Read more We’ve moved
I was going to call this post, “Gripes of a Vendor,” but then I checked on the author, Rick Anderson, and found that he is not a member of the publishing community but a member of the library community. His post is in The Scholarly Kitchen, the blog of the Society of Scholarly Publishing, and … Read more Gripes of a Dean
This is just a quick shout-out to Courtney Mlinar and her Library Professional Development blog. She has done a great job with it since taking it over a few months ago. Courtney has been working hard to dig up information about professional development opportunities. If you are in the market for professional development, you should … Read more Library Professional Development Blog
I have just done an interview with Melissa Adler, instructor for Library Juice Academy’s cataloging courses. Melissa is a recent graduate of the PhD program in LIS at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a cataloger as well. Our interview gives a good sense of the content of her two courses with Library Juice Academy … Read more Interview with Melissa Adler
Radical Reference has posted its live video recordings of its Critical Librarianship Symposium in Boston, which was held by the local Radical Reference Collective there on November 17th. Participants in the symposium were Susie Husted, Maria Carpenter, Akunna Eneh, Laura Foner, Alana Kumbier, Ryan Livergood, and Bill Mongelli. I hope they organize many more events … Read more Critical Librarianship Symposium Boston – Live Recording
I have just done an interview with Julie Edwards, instructor for our upcoming class, “Diversity Plans for Academic Libraries.” Julie is the Ethnic Studies Librarian and the Multicultural Coordinator at the Mansfield Library at the University of Montana. Her interview has insights about the organizational issues involved in promoting diversity in academic libraries. You can … Read more Interview with Julie Edwards
Library Juice Academy’s “Sponsor a Librarian” program is now set up so that you can give to anyone you like, even if they have not chosen to set up a profile on the site advertising that they are looking for help. Think of it as philanthropy, or think of it as Christmas gifts. You can … Read more Give To Anyone You Like
We haven’t done this in the past, but I think I would like to begin a tradition of sending a “year-end update” to friends and customers. Why now? Probably because 2012 was a year that saw a lot of changes, and we are planning for 2013 to be a big year as well. To begin … Read more Year-End Message to Friends and Customers
The Unglue.it campaign for Lauren Pressley’s book, So You Want To Be a Librarian, is in its home stretch, which is where the most donations to these campaigns typically come in (so there is still a chance that we will reach our goal). I wanted to mention one thing about the campaign. The free, “unglued” … Read more Acknowledging donors to the Unglue.it campaign
I recently did an interview with Madeleine Charney, instructor for our upcoming class, “The Sustainability Movement on Campus: Forming a Library Action Plan for Engagement.” Madeleine has had success at UMass Amherst in getting the library involved in their campus-wide sustainability initiatives, and has a lot to teach regarding how to accomplish goals related to … Read more Interview with Madeleine Charney
This was Session 4 on Day 1 of the conference ‘All that is banned is desired’ which was held in Oslo, Norway, in October 2012. Speakers: Larissa Sansour, Visual Artist (Palestine/UK) Nadia Plesner, Visual Artist (Denmark) Fredrik Gertten, Film Director (Sweden)
To updates to share with you on our campaign to Unglue Lauren Pressley’s book, So You Want To Be a Librarian: First, there is the fun Instagram contest that Lauren Pressley and Andromeda Yelton devised, which is for sharing your pictures of your copy of the book. Andromeda will be compiling the entries using Storify. … Read more Unglue.it updates: Instagram and Hack Library School