Library Juice Press, LLC

Library Juice Press is an imprint of Litwin Books, LLC specializing in theoretical and practical issues in librarianship from a critical perspective, for an audience of professional librarians and students of library science. Readers of the webzine and blog, Library Juice, can expect our books to be deeper investigations into topics that have been covered there over the years, including library philosophy, information policy, library activism, and in general anything that can be placed under the rubric of "critical studies in librarianship."

Current offerings:

Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian, edited by Alison Lewis
Responsible Librarianship: Library Policies for Unreliable Systems, by David Bade
Mrs. Magavero: A History Based on the Career of an Academic Librarian, by Jane Brodsky Fitzpatrick
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education, and the Public Good, by Ed D'Angelo
Alternative Publishers of Books in North America, 6th Edition, compiled by Byron Anderson under the auspices of the Alternatives in Publication Task Force, ALA/SRRT
Library Daylight: Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922, edited by Rory Litwin
Library Juice Concentrate, edited by Rory Litwin

Forthcoming:

Information and Liberation: Writings on the Politics of Information and Librarianship, by Shiraz Durrani
The Library Takes Up The Case: Generating Library Power by Mikael Böök and Anders Ericson
Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book, compiled by Rory Litwin and edited by Martin Wallace

From Litwin Books:

Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870, by Lara Jennifer Moore
Eugène Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France, by Gaëtan Benoît
Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society, by Samuel Collins

We are presently accepting manuscripts. Contact us to inquire.