[1] The company has its origins in an email news and comment distribution service called Library Juice, founded by Rory Litwin in 1998.

[2] In an interview with Barbara Fister for Inside Higher Education Litwin, interested in the continuity of the knowledge base of librarianship, described the publisher's role as initiating projects and working collaboratively with authors.

Litwin Books and Library Juice Press give a number of annual grants and awards.

[9] In 2018 the Alexandre Vattemare Award was established to honor contributions in the LIS field marked by originality, creative energy and novel combinations of ideas.

[10] Litwin Books sponsors and organizes conferences and colloquia on topics within its scope of interest, including libraries and archives in the anthropocene and gender and sexuality in information studies.