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Sep 28, 2026 · 48:45
Librarians as Researchers: Developing Our Scholarly Identity (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Paul C. Campbell and Sarah Nagle is designed to empower librarians to develop their…
Sep 21, 2026 · 47:48
Library Technical Services: Future Forward (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino looks at the future of technical services post-pandemic and at the…
Sep 15, 2026 · 43:44
It’s a long journey from a writer’s mind to a finished book, and a lot needs to go right along the way. But isn’t it more interesting when things go wrong? In Rogues, Widows and…
Sep 13, 2026 · 1:13:19
Focusing on U.S. academic libraries, The Reinvention of the U.S. Academic Library: 1990 – 2025 (2025, Bloomsbury) provides a concise history of the traditional role and function…
Sep 8, 2026 · 35:40
Efficiency by Design: Transforming Libraries and Archives through Process Management (Bloomsbury, 2025) by Joy M. Perrin offers library and archive professionals a comprehensive…
Aug 12, 2026 · 56:30
Planning Library Spaces: A Practical Guide for Library Building Projects (Bloomsbury, 2025) is a book designed for librarians, trustees, local government officials, architects,…
Aug 3, 2026 · 50:36
Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times (Bloomsbury, 2025) describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how it used and its role in our…
Jul 31, 2026 · 1:01:17
In the mid-1930s a group of New York Yiddishist intellectuals established the Central Jewish Library and Press Archive, whose collections became the nucleus of the YIVO Library…
May 15, 2026 · 53:55
AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archives, and Museums for the Future (Bloomsbury, 2026) explores how galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) are…
Apr 29, 2026 · 28:45
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 Playbook, host Sarah Russo of…
Apr 26, 2026 · 54:42
Librarians continue to work under budget constraints while still needing to increase the user experience and remove barriers to library resources. Learning to evaluate the best…
Apr 21, 2026 · 41:03
A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity (Emerald, 2026) fosters a platform for information scientists to engage in…
Mar 8, 2026 · 1:01:36
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designing and implementing…
Mar 4, 2026 · 47:53
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! This book describes the…
Feb 14, 2026 · 1:13:12
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakes—ranging…
Feb 6, 2026 · 1:01:48
Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers pursued alternative uses of the…
Jan 27, 2026 · 55:29
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects (Fordham UP, 2025)…
Jan 7, 2026 · 44:52
Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting community college library value…
Jan 1, 2026 · 41:41
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern…
Dec 28, 2025 · 32:25
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated reference work on global…
Dec 22, 2025 · 51:56
We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with interactive displays. But…
Dec 21, 2025 · 58:17
Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they think about and experience the…
Dec 11, 2025 · 1:08:09
We're pleased to welcome James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs , authors of Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future (FreeGovInfo Press, 2025), to the New Books…
Dec 7, 2025 · 58:35
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the communities that make…
Dec 1, 2025 · 54:13
At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. Professor James Cheshire stumbled upon it, and spent three…
Nov 22, 2025 · 37:41
A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weaves together first-person…
Nov 12, 2025 · 38:25
In Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press, 2025), Thomas Kador provides a concise overview of some of the most important approaches to…
Oct 23, 2025 · 54:42
In today’s polarized landscape, libraries face two key challenges: the difficulty of turning raw data into narratives that effectively advocate for libraries, and the ethical…
Oct 5, 2025 · 36:15
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 described and organized and…
Oct 3, 2025 · 47:46
Streaming video is not new to the library environment, but recent years have seen an exponential growth in the number of platforms and titles available for streaming. For…
Sep 25, 2025 · 47:24
Namibia’s colonial history casts a long shadow over the country’s present. Contemporary authors and artists confront the legacies of German and South African colonial rule and…
Sep 18, 2025 · 1:08:35
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences offers an accessible account of theorising the archive, contesting the narrow definitions of the archive…
Aug 30, 2025 · 58:16
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 Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo:…
Aug 21, 2025 · 59:30
We're pleased to welcome Dr. Jimi Jones and Dr. Marek Jancovic, authors of The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive (U of Illinois…
Aug 14, 2025 · 47:37
Researchers and archivists have spent decades digitizing and cataloguing, but what does the future hold for book history? Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and…
Jul 25, 2025 · 56:38
In this book, Paul A. Thomas—a seasoned Wikipedia contributor who has accrued about 60,000 edits since he started editing in 2007—breaks down the history of the free encyclopedia…
May 20, 2025 · 56:09
Written for library managers and training leaders, A Complete Guide to Training Library Staff (2025, Bloomsbury) presents a comprehensive lifecycle for staff development with a…
May 16, 2025 · 39:56
The teaching of copyright and related concepts can easily be overwhelming to instructors who are experts in their field but may have little to no detailed understanding of…
May 15, 2025 · 50:08
The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy takes us inside her job on…
May 10, 2025 · 41:17
Learn how to take an apolitical, unbiased stance to support students as they pursue research, literature connections, maker activities, and civic engagement projects in their…
May 7, 2025 · 1:01:01
Learn to facilitate modern book clubs devoted to elevating the reading experience through active engagement, resulting in long-term commitment to book club events. How do you get…
May 5, 2025 · 1:09:59
We're pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Krapp, the author of Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation (MIT Press, 2024), to the New Books Network. In Computing Legacie s,…
Apr 27, 2025 · 51:23
Tattoos are not merely decorative; they contain deep meaning for individuals and communities. They document their wearers' personal histories and position in families or society,…
Apr 17, 2025 · 52:49
In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just…
Mar 13, 2025 · 32:44
When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the…
Mar 10, 2025 · 49:08
The Library of Mistakes is a library located in Edinburgh, Scotland dedicated to financial and economic history. Russell Napier, the founder and keeper of the library is a…
Mar 2, 2025 · 1:00:17
Good workplaces require both autonomy--giving employees a sense of ownership over how and where they work--and collaboration in pursuit of common goals. They see employees for…
Feb 10, 2025 · 40:01
Building on the field of modern archival practice, Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age (ARC Humanities Press, 2024) explores the possibilities of…
Feb 4, 2025 · 39:37
In Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories (Lonely Planet, 2024) by Diana Helmuth, discover 50 of the world's most magnificent hidden libraries - each with a…
Feb 2, 2025 · 36:32
Critical Management Studies and Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on Library Management Education and Practice (Library Juice Press, November 2024) introduces key concepts in…
Feb 1, 2025 · 35:21
What can archives tell us about the film industry? In Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive (Liverpool UP, 2024), James Fenwick, a senior lecturer in…
Jan 18, 2025 · 46:42
The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 (Getty, 2022) is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of…
Jan 8, 2025 · 50:01
The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas (Brill, 2024) focuses on the history of early Christianity, covering texts, authors, ideas, and their…
Dec 27, 2024 · 26:15
In Illustration and Heritage (Bloomsbury, 2024), Rachel Emily Taylor explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and…
Dec 19, 2024 · 41:53
Today I’m speaking with Erich Hatala Matthes, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Advisory Faculty for Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. We are discussing his Oxford…
Dec 18, 2024 · 1:06:44
Since the early 20th century, American academic libraries have collected and championed rare and unique non-circulating materials now referred to as special collections. Because…
Dec 11, 2024 · 42:41
Becoming a more equitable librarian is an ongoing process. In the face of the last decade’s events and increased public awareness of issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and…
Dec 8, 2024 · 44:28
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's…
Dec 5, 2024 · 51:04
Today’s book is: That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Amanda Jones, which offers her story of life as a small-town librarian. One of…
Dec 2, 2024 · 54:35
Academic library hiring can be a bureaucratic and exclusionary process. Inclusive hiring practices can help libraries recenter the people in the process and incorporate…
Dec 1, 2024 · 28:43
With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the…
Nov 16, 2024 · 56:34
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024) , Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a…
Nov 15, 2024 · 33:24
Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020 (Library Juice Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive and critical history of…
Oct 26, 2024 · 46:39
In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-lasting? Drawing on archival…
Oct 23, 2024 · 44:20
In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries to challenge debates about…
Oct 12, 2024 · 1:16:20
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 2024), Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise…
Sep 25, 2024 · 44:39
Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book helps librarians master the…
Sep 23, 2024 · 28:08
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this…
Sep 22, 2024 · 36:31
Filling a gap in the literature, Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches (ALA Editions and Core, 2024) provides librarians and catalogers with…
Sep 20, 2024 · 1:00:09
From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new…
Sep 9, 2024 · 57:19
In Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Red Chidgey and Joanne Garde-Hansen address the emergence of ‘protest memory’ as a powerful contemporary…
Sep 5, 2024 · 1:08:58
In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust ( Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism,…
Sep 1, 2024 · 1:31:03
In Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources (Routledge, 2024), Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Kathia Ibacache, and Leila Gómez argue for a…
Aug 28, 2024 · 57:53
Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons (Bloomsbury, 2023) provides a comprehensive overview of various services, programs, and…
Aug 20, 2024 · 56:13
Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heuristics. Our conventional…
Aug 17, 2024 · 1:33:15
Often assumed to be a self-evident good, Open Access has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustices. it has been seen as…
Jul 31, 2024 · 56:02
Predatory publishing is a complex problem that harms a broad array of stakeholders and concerns across the scholarly communications system. It shines a light on the inadequacies…
Jul 19, 2024 · 37:43
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its possible reappearance—feared…
Jul 14, 2024 · 51:54
This interview with Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz about Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Identity and Libraries and Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Archives and Practice…
Jul 11, 2024 · 58:18
A primary question for many librarians, directors, and board members is how to evaluate diversity in a collection on an ongoing basis. Curating Community Collections: A Holistic…
Jul 7, 2024 · 55:59
Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of…
Jun 15, 2024 · 46:19
Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2024) is a collection of essays written by library workers that highlights academic…
May 25, 2024 · 22:54
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Cyril Heude (Sciences Po) to talk about all things metadata. What is…
May 22, 2024 · 55:32
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when…
May 19, 2024 · 38:30
Archaeology as a discipline has undergone significant changes over the past decades, in particular concerning best practices for how to handle the vast quantities of data that…
May 15, 2024 · 52:24
Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice (MIT Press, 2024, open…
May 9, 2024 · 41:30
Book bans and book challenges are both on the rise. And they are increasing at unprecedented rates. But why is this happening? Dr. Christine Emeran of the National Coalition…
May 7, 2024 · 47:41
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its kind dedicated to book history…
Apr 27, 2024 · 56:17
How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva , Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management…
Apr 26, 2024 · 1:02:21
We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the…
Apr 18, 2024 · 43:53
The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. For centuries, non-Native actors have…
Apr 12, 2024 · 1:10:15
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection…
Apr 9, 2024 · 1:04:53
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despite these hurdles, there are…
Mar 31, 2024 · 56:57
Co-edited by Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, two activists with deep experience in organizing prison books programs (PBPs), Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books…
Mar 30, 2024 · 41:37
Using techniques garnered from startups and quickly evolving technology companies, in The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forward, and Creating Change (ALA…
Mar 23, 2024 · 56:26
Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures, and globally disruptive events such as the current pandemic. In Refocusing Academic…
Mar 22, 2024 · 1:00:29
The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age—and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. In Resurrecting the Black…
Mar 2, 2024 · 45:55
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe's Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts (Routledge, 2024) revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include…
Feb 28, 2024 · 49:13
Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan: A Practical Guide for Libraries (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2023) by Katy B. Mathuews and Ryan A. Spellman helps libraries of all types…
Feb 21, 2024 · 47:57
Authorship represents a new area of policy-related work within higher education research administration, funding agencies, and scholarly journal publishing. Developing Authorship…
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