Interest Convergence, Intersectionality, and Counter-Storytelling: Critical Race Theory as Practice in Scholarly Communications Librarianship
In Brief: Despite the ever-increasing presence of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rhetoric in librarianship, library workers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color... Read More
Going around in Circles: Interrogating Librarians’ Spheres of Concern, Influence, and Control
In Brief: The practice placing one’s anxieties into circles of concern, influence, and control can be found in philosophy, psychology, and self-help literature. It is... Read More
Book Club Pláticas: Reflexiones on Culturally-centered Methodologies
In Brief In spring 2024, two Latinx colleagues at California State University, East Bay, developed a pilot program focused around hosting a book club which... Read More
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures
In Brief Since the public debut of ChatGPT in November 2022, the calls for librarians to adopt and promote generative AI (GenAI) technologies and to... Read More
Towards a Librarianship of the Future: Fostering Cultural Adaptation to Climate Change
In Brief The field of library science is paying increasing attention to anthropogenic climate change by exploring best practices for mitigating damage from environmental disasters... Read More
Puzzlement and Praxis in the Academic Library: Critically Reimagining Collection Practices with Students
In Brief This article mobilizes critical librarianship and critical/decolonial pedagogical strategies for disrupting and reconceiving collection practices in academic libraries. The authors—an academic librarian and... Read More
Nurturing Student Development in Academic Libraries: A Practice in the Ethics of Care
In Brief This paper explores an ethics of care framework in academic libraries, specifically with the implementation of a professional development initiative for student employees.... Read More
Rethinking Banned Books Exhibits in the Library
In Brief Each year during the American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week,” librarians display famous books that have been challenged in the past as well... Read More
False Positive: Transphobic Regimes, Ableist Abandonment, and Evidence-Based Practice
In Brief This paper explores the relationship between EBP as a system of knowledge governance, its implementation in library work, and the means by which... Read More
Radical Trust: Access Services and Archives Engaged in Carceral Collecting
In Brief Access services policies at academic archives in the United States are, in many ways, informed by carceral logics. This essay explores the ethical... Read More