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 get a good sense from this interview of what you would have to gain from taking her class.

Library Juice Academy is starting a new thing: the Sponsor a Librarian program. If you are an unemployed librarian, you can set up a profile on the project website, which others can use to donate funds so that you can take classes with Library Juice Academy to keep your skills up to date. Ours is a profession based on mutual support, and we hope this system will facilitate the kind of mutual assistance that keeps our profession bound together. It depends on participation in order to work, so if you’re unemployed, please set up a profile, and if you’re willing to help someone else, check back in a week and there should be some profiles of unemployed librarians needing assistance for their continuing education…

You can buy gift certificates from Library Juice Press and Litwin Books (and Auslander & Fox as well). You can pay for a gift certificate in an amount of your choosing with funds in your PayPal account or with a credit card.

   

Call for Papers

TITLE: Focus on Educating for Sustainability: Toolkit for Academic Libraries
EDITOR: Maria A. Jankowska
PUBLISHER: Library Juice Press

BOOK ABSTRACT: In the last ten years literature on greening libraries has expanded considerably. Furthermore, by signing the Presidents’ Climate Commitment, university presidents and chancellors committed their institutions to finding new solutions to environmental, economic, and social issues through their teaching, research, and service operations. Since 2007, higher education has observed exponential growth of programs integrating sustainability literacy into teaching and research. Academic libraries must respond to this increasing focus on educating for sustainability and go beyond greening libraries to become active partners in advancing education and research for sustainability.

OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK: This edited collection strives to capture the current status and future direction of libraries’ commitment to advance the focus of educating for sustainability. It will serve as a toolkit offering a wide range of best practices, case studies, and activities ready for implementation within academic libraries.

POSSIBLE TOPICS: With this call, the editor invites articles, essays, and case studies that describe specific activities undertaken by academic libraries or visions for future activities that support university sustainability research and teaching. Such activities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Integrating sustainability literacy into information literacy instruction and university courses
· Selecting materials in support of sustainability-related curriculum
· Creating effective research guides on sustainability topics related to social equity, economic practicality, and the environment
· Promoting open access content resources related to sustainability
· Partnering on university sustainability curriculum design and collaborative teaching
· Participating in university efforts to educate for sustainability across disciplines
· Supporting the university’s sustainability research, teaching, and outreach

TARGET AUDIENCES: The editor believes this book will be of interest to a large variety of audiences including the following:
· Librarians seeking inspiration for ways to combine their expertise with their passion for sustainability
· Library managers interested in leveraging and highlighting library services that support their institution’s focus on sustainability
· Teaching faculty collaborating with libraries on projects related to sustainability
· University administrators interested in the strategic role of libraries in educating for sustainability

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are invited to submit abstracts and proposals of 300-500 words to educatingforsustain@gmail.com by January 15, 2013. Notifications will be sent by February 26, 2013. A first draft ranging from 1,500-7,000 words will be due by April 2, and a final manuscript will be due by June 25, 2013.
Submitted manuscripts must not have been published previously or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Following review, articles will be returned via e-mail for revision before final acceptance. All materials are edited as necessary for clarity. Submissions should include an abstract of no more than 150 words (highlighting the scope, methodology, and conclusions of the paper) at the beginning of each manuscript. Authors should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. Examples are available at: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.htm (Research and Documentation Online by Diane Hacker).

Submission of proposals should include:
Name of author
Title
Affiliation
Contact information
300-500 word abstract

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission: January 15, 2013
Notification of abstract acceptance: February 26, 2013
Full chapter submission: April 2, 2013
Communication of review results to authors: May 2, 2013
Final chapter submission: June25, 2013
Estimated publication date: 2013

If you can make it to the Boston area on Saturday, November 17, head to the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. The wonderful Boston collective of Radical Reference is putting on a symposium called “Practical Choices for Powerful Impacts: Realizing the Activist Potential of Librarians.” It features a panel of “librarians who use their skills to undertake consciousness-raising in libraries and within the LIS profession; actively participate in anti-oppression and empowerment work; and develop programming that supports the library as space and library as a means of liberation,” followed by group discussions. And it’s free!

I have just done an interview with Maria Accardi for the Library Juice Academy news blog. Maria is teaching a class next month called, “Changing Lives, Changing the World: Information Literacy and Critical Pedagogy.” This course is based on part on work that she did leading up to her co-editing the book published by Library Juice Press in 2010, Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods. Maria talks about how she teaches this class in a way that is designed to let participants’ own experiences and insights play a big part in the learning process, and what this class was like when she taught it previously.

I have interviewed Chris D’Arpa for the News and Comment blog over at Library Juice Academy. Chris is in the instructor for a course being offered in November: “So Now I Am an Archivist, Too?! Introduction to Archives Administration and Management. Chris gave an informative interview that will provide some background about her to anyone who might be interested in taking the class.

Library Juice Press to “Unglue” a Book for Prospective Librarians with Unglue.it

October 15, 2012
LOS ANGELES

Library Juice Press is announcing one of the latest campaigns to “unglue” an e-book so that it can be shared under a creative commons license, in partnership with Unglue.it.

Unglue.it is an organization devoted to opening up access to electronic books in a way that is community based, library friendly, publisher friendly, and convenient. Using crowd-funding, Unglue.it facilitates campaigns to buy out future e-book rights so that e-books can be used freely by the public, perpetually. Library Juice Press supports the Unglue.it project, because it is smart, realistic, forward-thinking, and motivated by values that librarians can get behind.

Coinciding with Unglue.it’s relaunch with a new crowd-funding platform, Library Juice Press is announcing a campaign to “unglue” Lauren Pressley’s popular book, So You Want To Be a Librarian, a concise yet comprehensive guide to the library profession, aimed at an audience of college students and recent graduates, as well as career changers. Library Juice Press determined that the book would be a suitable candidate for an Unglue.it campaign, due to the financial limitations of college students, as well as their familiarity with e-readers.

As Lauren Pressley says about Unglue.it, “Unglue.it is something every librarian should be paying attention to. Part crowdsourcing, part open access, part answer to the ebook problem, it’s a solution to some of the most critical issues libraries are facing today. Ungluing a book gives it to the world, so that anyone can access the ebook without Digital Rights Management (DRM), without worrying about how many devices they’ve put it on, and without worrying about legality and compensation issues. Libraries can provide access to unglued books for free, forever, in any format — no need to worry about changing contract terms or pricing.”

Author Lauren Pressley currently serves as Head of Instruction at the Wake Forest University Library. She is a frequent presenter on library technology topics, with numerous published articles and book chapters. A 2009 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, she is also a member of ALA Council, Director at Large of the LITA Executive Committee, and otherwise active in national, regional and state associations. She is also the winner of the 2011 Greenwood Publishing Award for Best Book in Library Literature for The Tech Set, from Neal-Schumann Publishing. Her CV is available at
http://laurenpressley.com/library/full-cv-pdf/.

Library Juice Press is a small publisher for the library profession founded in 2006 by Rory Litwin, specializing in library philosophy, information policy, library activism, and library history. It is an imprint of Litwin Books, LLC, which publishes books about media, communication and the cultural record, primarily for an academic audience.

To support the Unglue.it campaign for Lauren Pressley’s book for prospective librarians, go to:
https://unglue.it/work/76348/

For more information about Lauren, go to:
http://laurenpressley.com/library/

For more information about Library Juice Press, see:
http://libraryjuicepress.com/

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I have interviewed Rachel Bridgewater about her class, Exploring Fair Use, which she will be teaching for Library Juice Academy next month. Rachel talks about her background and what participants will get out of the four-week class. I enjoyed interviewing Rachel and hope you enjoy reading the interview.

What’s this Unglue.it logo doing here, you rightly ask?

We here at Library Juice Press will tell you on October 15th, or thereabouts. I hope you’re good and curious now.

What on earth could it be?

Over at the Library Juice Academy Updates blog I have posted a paragraph by Jesse Shera about the importance of continuing education in librarianship. It’s from a 1967 lecture that was published as Sociological Foundations of Librarianship in 1970.

Have I mentioned that I hope we can bring Shera back?

Courtney Mlinar has taken over the Library Professional Development Blog from its founder Ellie Collier, who left it idle when she left her previous institution, which was the blog’s original sponsor. Courtney will continue to use the blog to share information about a wide range of professional development opportunities available to librarians and other library staff.

A new source for book reviews: SRRT Reviews, book reviews from the Social Responsibilities Round Table Newsletter. Our titles are reviewed there periodically, along with many others. Bookmark it for collection development.

Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians, with classes starting October 1st. These workshops earn Continuing Education Units, and are intended as professional development activities primarily for academic librarians. A partial schedule of workshops is below. Visit the website periodically to see new courses as we add them. We are currently accepting enrollments in the courses listed below, and are also interested in finding new instructors with ideas for workshops we might like to offer.

October 2012

Cataloging for the Non-Cataloger
Instructor: Melissa Adler
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Considering an Open Source ILS
Instructor: BWS Johnson
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing
Instructor: Rebecca Blakiston
Credits: 0.75 CEUs
Cost: $90

Participatory Culture in the Library: Community-Driven Collecting, Cataloging, and Curating
Instructor: Margaret Heller
Credits: 0.75 CEUs
Cost: $90

Alternative Health Resources for Librarians
Instructor: Candise Branum
Credits: 0.75 CEUs
Cost: $90

Working Faster, Working Smarter: Productivity Strategies for Librarians
Instructor: Emily Drabinski
Credits: 0.75 CEUs
Cost: $90

November 2012

Changing Lives, Changing the World: Information Literacy and Critical Pedagogy
Instructor: Maria T. Accardi
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Advocacy for Librarians
Instructor: Alison Lewis
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Exploring Fair Use
Instructor: Rachel Bridgewater
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Online Instruction
Instructor: John Doherty
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

So Now I am an Archivist, Too?! Introduction to Archives Administration and Management
Instructor: Christine D’Arpa
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Introduction to FRBR
Instructor: Melissa Adler
Credits: 0.75 CEUs
Cost: $90

December 2012

Introduction to RDA
Instructor: Melissa Adler
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Alternative Literature in Libraries
Instructor: Rory Litwin
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

The Mechanics of Metadata
Instructor: Grace Agnew
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

Game-Based Learning in Library Instruction
Instructor: Scott Rice
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

January 2013

Diversity Plans for Academic Libraries
Instructor: Julie Biando Edwards
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175

March 2013

Patent Searching
Instructor: Martin Wallace
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Cost: $175