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Library Science
Interviews with authors about new books in library science.
March 8, 2026
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designin…
March 4, 2026
Archiving Machines
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! …
February 14, 2026
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains a…
February 6, 2026
Bibliotactics
Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers purs…
January 27, 2026
Peculiar Satisfaction
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of S…
January 7, 2026
Valuing the Community College Library:
Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting community…
December 28, 2025
Conservation of Books
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated…
December 22, 2025
The Digital Medieval Manuscript
We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with …
December 21, 2025
Information Literacy and Critical Thinking
Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they thin…
December 11, 2025
Preserving Government Information
We're pleased to welcome James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, authors of Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future (FreeGovInfo Pre…
December 7, 2025
Trans Histories of the Medieval Book
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect th…
November 28, 2025
The Library of Lost Maps
At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. Professor James Cheshire stumbl…
November 22, 2025
Preserving Disability
A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weaves t…
November 12, 2025
Object-Based Learning
In Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press, 2025), Thomas Kador provides a concise overview of some of the mo…
October 23, 2025
Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries
In today’s polarized landscape, libraries face two key challenges: the difficulty of turning raw data into narratives that effectively advocate for li…
October 5, 2025
Ways of Knowing
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…
October 3, 2025
Streaming Video Collection Development and Management
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…
September 25, 2025
Troubling Archives
Namibia’s colonial history casts a long shadow over the country’s present. Contemporary authors and artists confront the legacies of German and South …
September 18, 2025
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences offers an accessible account of theorising the archive, contesting the narro…
August 30, 2025
Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo
Archives are not only sources for history but have their own histories too, which shape how historians can tell stories of the past. In Managing Paper…