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But How Do We Do Critical Librarianship?

open access: diamondOLA Quarterly, 2017
Critical librarianship asks us to look more closely at the sociopolitical world both inside and out of our libraries. Indeed, a lot has happened in the world since I first saw the call for this special issue of OLA Quarterly. First, there was the exposure of an internal memo from a Google employee that denied that women were capable tech workers.
Kelly McElroy
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Library collections in the perspective of US “critical librarianship”

open access: yesBibliothecae.it, 2023
Questo articolo intende offrire una visione delle collezioni nell’ottica della “biblioteconomia critica”, in inglese Critical librarianship o, abbreviato, CritLib, i cui principi sono stati applicati negli USA a tutte le tipologie di biblioteche e a ...
Francesco Giuseppe Meliti
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Resisting Neoliberalism: The challenge of activist librarianship in English Higher Education [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Documentation, 2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship in the context of recent changes in English Higher Education. The neoliberalisation of academic librarianship, both as an academic discipline and profession,
Bates, J., Quinn, K.
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Questioning the Past and Possible Futures: Digital Historiography and Critical Librarianship

open access: diamondJournal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 2017
Historical digitization projects are transformative endeavours that attempt to negotiate and navigate a past's relationship to the present and the future.  This article considers librarians' roles within the context of critical librarianship and digital historiography and argues for a more robust role for librarians within these transformative ...
Cal Murgu, Heidi L.M. Jacobs
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Epistemicide Beyond Borders

open access: yesThe International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2023
This conceptual research examines epistemic injustices in library and information science (LIS) due to the power imbalance between Western and non-Western LIS curricula, theory, and practice.
Jieun Yeon   +3 more
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Public Libraries as Agonistic Spaces

open access: yesLibellarium: Journal for the Research of Writing, Books, and Cultural Heritage Institutions, 2021
The paper deals with the possibilities of engaged interdisciplinary activity implemented at the crossroads of librarianship and contemporary art practices.
Irena Bekić, Petra Dolanjski
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Proving the proverbial gadfly: situating the historical and racial context of Southern medical works by Mary Louise Marshall

open access: yesJournal of the Medical Library Association, 2021
Health sciences librarianship has historically benefited from avoiding critical conversations around the role of race in the profession, reflected through a select few number of articles on the topic.
Aidy Weeks
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