Preparing Early Career Librarians for Leadership and Management: A Feminist Critique
In Brief This article explores the opportunities and challenges that early career librarians face when advancing their careers, desired qualities for leaders or managers of... Read More
Intersubjectivity and Ghostly Library Labor
In Brief Libraries are haunted houses. As our patrons move through scenes and illusions that took years of labor to build and maintain, we workers... Read More
Care, Code, and Digital Libraries: Embracing Critical Practice in Digital Library Communities
In Brief In this article, the author explores the necessity of articulating an ethics of care in the design, governance, and future evolution of digital... Read More
Dismantling Deficit Thinking: A strengths-based inquiry into the experiences of transfer students in and out of academic libraries
In Brief Library research on transfer students tends to focus on the idea of the “struggling” transfer student and creating solutions to “fix” them. While... Read More
Transformative praxis – building spaces for Indigenous self-determination in libraries and archives
In Brief This article explores questions regarding the development and support of Indigenous priorities and self-determination in Australian libraries and archives. It calls for greater... Read More
They CAN and they SHOULD and it’s BOTH AND: The role of undergraduate peer mentors in the reference conversation
In Brief: Academic libraries hire and train student employees to answer reference questions which can result in high-impact employment experiences for these students. By employing... Read More
Extending Our Reach: Using Day Camps at Academic Library Makerspaces to Include Homeschoolers
In Brief The makerspace at Abilene Christian University has been operational since 2015. It is unusual in that it is an academic space at... Read More
“I Remember…”: A Written-Reflection Program for Student Library Workers
In Brief: Two librarians who run a library commons space implemented a written reflection program with their undergraduate student employees to improve team communication, create... Read More
Towards a Critical Assessment Practice
“We worry about disclosing data, but often do not consider the implications of creating data.” -Jeffrey Alan Johnson (2018, p. vi) “A critical assessment practice... Read More
Bridging the Relationship Gap: Using Social Network Theories to Inform Library Services for Graduate Students
In Brief Graduate school is a transformative time for many students. For some students, this is an exciting adventure that allows them to explore new... Read More