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From Litwin Books:

 

• Voltaire and Islam, Malise Ruthven’s Preface to Voltaire’s Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet: A New Translation

 

• Robert Jensen’s foreword to Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Press Critics of the Progressive Era

 

• Chapter 1 of Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova’s Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age

 

• Davin Heckman’s Foreword to Samuel Gerald Collins’ Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society

 

• Chapter Two of John Miedema’s Slow Reading

 

• Chapter One of John Ridener’s From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory

 

• Ron Day’s Introduction to The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult: Social Fears and Religious Fantasies and the translator’s introduction

 

• Unprinted Foreword to Gaëtan Benoît’s Eugène Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France, by his widow, Marie Benoît

 

• Introduction to Mark Abendroth’s Rebel Literacy: Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign and Critical Global Citizenship

 

• The Introduction and two essays:  To Name a Thief: Constructing the Deviant Pirate, and Modernity, Law and the Violence of Piracy, Property and the State from Piracy: Leakages from Modernity

 

• The Table of Contents and Index and the Italy Chapter from Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from Abkhazia to Zanzibar

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From Library Juice Press:

 

• Table of Contents and Introduction to Information Literacy and Writing Studies in Conversation: Reenvisioning Library-Writing Program Connections.

 

• Title page, Table of Contents, Preface, and Introduction to Progressive Community Action: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science (PDF)

 

• Title page, Table of Contents, Preface, and Introduction toWhere are all the Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia (PDF)

 

• Table of Contents and Introduction to Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Movements and Beyond, as well as other assorted chapters

 

• Complete front matter from Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis

 

• The Public Library’s Role in the Transition Towns Movement, Monika Antonelli’s chapter in Greening Libraries

 

• Preface to Libraries and the Enlightenment

 

• Introduction to Beyond Article 19: Libraries and Social and Cultural Rights

 

• Introduction to Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods and contributor bios

 

• Preface and Introduction from André Cossette’s Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship

 

• Chapter One of Juris Dilevko’s The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship

 

• Michael Gorman’s Foreword to Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book

 

• Alison Lewis’ Introduction to Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian

 

• Thomas Mann’s Foreword to David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship: Library Policies for Unreliable Systems

 

• Chapters One and Two of Ed D’Angelo’s Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good

 

• Kathleen de la Peña McCook’s Preface to Library Juice Concentrate

 

• Nancy Kranich’s Preface to Alternative Publishers of Books in North America, 6th Edition and an Interview with compiler Byron Anderson. This out-of-print reference book is now continued by an online resource called Alternatives in Print.

 

• H. Stephen Wright’s Introduction to The Psychology of Librarianship

 

• The Appendices from The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-Six Large American Public Libraries

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