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Interviews with authors about new books in library science.
What if the most powerful tool in your book marketing strategy isn't social media — it's your local library? In the debut episode of The Publishing Pl…
Librarians continue to work under budget constraints while still needing to increase the user experience and remove barriers to library resources. Lea…
A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity (Emerald, 2026) fosters a platform for information sc…
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designin…
We're so pleased to welcome Dr. Amelia Acker, author of Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms (MIT Press, 2025) to the New Books Network! …
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains a…
Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers purs…
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of S…
Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting community…
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated…
We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with …
Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they thin…
We're pleased to welcome James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, authors of Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future (FreeGovInfo Pre…
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect th…
At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. Professor James Cheshire stumbl…
A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weaves t…
In Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press, 2025), Thomas Kador provides a concise overview of some of the mo…
In today’s polarized landscape, libraries face two key challenges: the difficulty of turning raw data into narratives that effectively advocate for li…
Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create (Litwin Books, 2025) sits at the heart of the library project, shaping how materials are de…
Streaming video is not new to the library environment, but recent years have seen an exponential growth in the number of platforms and titles availabl…