Forthcoming Books
We now have a separate page on our website listing our forthcoming titles. We will be adding more titles to this page over the next few months.
New book: She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West
She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West Editors: Toni Samek, Moyra Lang and K.R. Roberto Price: $30.00 Published: June 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-9-2 Printed on acid-free paper She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West is a compilation of reflections and tales from friends and other admirers who were influenced and inspired by this larger than life … Read more New book: She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West
“Metric Mania”
John Allen Paulos is a mathematician who writes books about numeracy for a popular audience. The New York Times Magazine published a brief but insightful essay by him about the dangers inherent in relying on numbers without looking at how they are arrived at (my basic issue with Wolfram Alpha). Here is the starting paragraph … Read more “Metric Mania”
New book: A Space for Hate: The White Power Movement’s Adaptation into Cyberspace
A Space for Hate: The White Power Movement’s Adaptation into Cyberspace Author: Adam Klein Price: $25.00 Published: June 2010 ISBN: 978-1-936117-07-9 A Space for Hate speaks to the media and information topic of hate speech in cyberspace, but more specifically, how its inscribers have adapted their movement into the social networking and information-providing contexts of … Read more New book: A Space for Hate: The White Power Movement’s Adaptation into Cyberspace
2010 Catalog
Our 2010 Catalog is published in web form and will be ready for mailing soon.
New SRRT Newsletter
An announcement from SRRT Newsletter Editor Myka Kennedy Stephens: SRRT Newsletter – Issue 171, June 2010 is now available! The permanent link is: http://libr.org/srrt/news/srrt171.html NEW! This is our first issue available in EPUB format: http://libr.org/srrt/news/srrt171.epub This graphics-free edition is readable on a variety of e-book readers (Kindle, Nook, etc.) and mobile devices equipped with e-book … Read more New SRRT Newsletter
Introduction to Critical Library Instruction
We have put the introduction to Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods on the website as a guide to what is in the book.
2010 Braverman Prize Winner
June 1, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize Winner Announced (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR) The Progressive Librarians Guild is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize. This year’s prize has been awarded to Kristen Hogan for her essay entitled ‚ “‘Breaking Secrets’ in the Catalog: Proposing the … Read more 2010 Braverman Prize Winner
Knowing how to find out
Many librarians, when asked what is involved in being a librarian besides checking out books, will say something to the effect of, “I don’t know the answers, but I know how to look them up.” Where a doctor has knowledge of medicine, a librarian has knowledge of how to find out knowledge of medicine. (Or … Read more Knowing how to find out
A note on the Library Juice Press pricing philosophy
The publishing industry has some very separate parts to it. Trade publishing is the biggest, and is what most people think of when they think of “book publishing.” In the trade book market, quantity is everything. The price point for a book is low and the profit margins are very small. Publishers often pay authors … Read more A note on the Library Juice Press pricing philosophy
Library Juice Press / APC Reception at ALA in Washington DC
For your ALA Annual Conference calendar: Library Juice Press and the Alternative Press Center are going to have a reception and party on Saturday night, June 26th, 7pm. Details: Location: 21M Lounge at the M Street Bar & Grill, 2033 M Street, Washington, DC Time: 7pm ’till close, Saturday, June 26th Refreshments: Cash bar and … Read more Library Juice Press / APC Reception at ALA in Washington DC
Wayne Bivens-Tatum on Librarians and “Traditional Cultural Expressions”
There is a hot issue in librarianship that I think has great significance in terms of how society and the institution of libraries is changing. The issue is how the profession will deal with claims by native cultural groups who desire that their cultural works, documents, and artifacts be kept in public libraries, but with … Read more Wayne Bivens-Tatum on Librarians and “Traditional Cultural Expressions”
The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-Six Large American Public Libraries
The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-Six Large American Public Libraries, an Analysis of Published Writings of Their Directors Author: Robert Scott Kramp Price: $18.00 Published: May 2010 ISBN: 978-1-936117-02-4 Printed on acid-free paper This 1975 dissertation used content analysis to study the impact of the Great Depression on large American public libraries from 1930 … Read more The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-Six Large American Public Libraries
Goodman vs. St. Paul
Lawsuit Challenges Police and Secret Service Crackdown on Journalists Covering Protests at Republican National Convention CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.org May 5, 2010, Minnesota and St. Paul, MN —Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) with co-counsel De Leon & Nestor and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed a federal lawsuit against the Minneapolis and St. Paul police … Read more Goodman vs. St. Paul
Motives in the conception of the “user” in user-centered service design
The big theme in the current era of librarianship is to be user-centered. Being user centered is the key to maintaining relevance, changing with the times, and erasing the barriers to access that turn many people off to libraries. In the background of the idea of user-centeredness are two parallel but very different theories: critical … Read more Motives in the conception of the “user” in user-centered service design
New York event
LACUNY is sponsoring an event tomorrow on Critical Library Instruction at the Brooklyn College Library. The organizers are Alycia Sellie and Jonathan Cope. Ira Shor will be the featured speaker. Wish I could go…
New group blog on critical information theory
Arcades Collaborative is a new academic group blog, started by Patrick Keilty, on what could be called critical information theory. Ron Day and a number of really sharp doc students (and a couple of sharp practitioners) are applying critical social theory and philosophy to questions in information studies (or more accurately, using theory to raise … Read more New group blog on critical information theory
What ails SRRT: a diagnosis
The Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) was the permanent structure formed out of progressive political organizing in the American Library Association during the revolutionary time of the late 60’s. (For a good history of SRRT’s beginnings, see Toni Samek’s Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship, 1967-1974 (McFarland, 2003). Since then it has served … Read more What ails SRRT: a diagnosis
The “assessment piece” and reference strategy
I want to suggest a possible strategy for reference departments in academic libraries. I think a lot of library administrators who have an eye on the future see less of a role for reference, at least in the way we currently understand it. As they see it, it seems to me, it’s a waste of … Read more The “assessment piece” and reference strategy
Caralyn Champa reviews Slow Reading
Caralyn Champa has a review of John Miedema’s Slow Reading in the most recent issue of the German-English online journal Libreas. Caralyn’s review is a pleasure to read, like John’s book. She included the photo above as part of her review…