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A reflexive lens: Critical librarianship at UAL

Art Libraries Journal, 2019
This article presents an insider view of engagement with critical librarianship in a higher education and arts library context. The gains from this engagement include a stronger voice in institutional dialogue and collaboration, and the development of exploratory practices in collection development and information literacy that are increasingly ...
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Critical Librarianship as an Academic Pursuit

2018
This chapter seeks to better understand why the set of discourses and practices called ‘critical librarianship’ are not easily reconciled. It explores why it is difficult for librarians and/or LIS scholars as a group to agree on the primary or defining characteristics of critical librarianship. In particular, the chapter examines the strong association
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Critical Design in Librarianship: Visual and Narrative Exploration for Critical Praxis

The Library Quarterly, 2019
In a politically charged social climate, many disciplines are inwardly grappling with historic ideologies and systems of oppression. In information science, critical librarianship seeks to disrupt normative approaches to library work by confronting these ideologies and systems, empowering both library workers and users to understand how these ...
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Developing a Music Librarianship Course Centered on Theory and Praxis in Critical Librarianship, Social Justice, and Diversity Work

2022
The NEMLA Music Librarianship Course working group developed a syllabus for a course that is centered around the principles of critical music librarianship with a particular focus on social justice and antiracist practices. This initiative is unique from general music librarianship courses offered in LIS programs currently, because we specifically set ...
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critlib: critical librarianship, in real life & on the twitters

Technical Services Quarterly, 2021
This column highlights current websites and other online resources relevant to technical services librarianship. We welcome new reviewers, comments, and suggestions.
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Comics and critical librarianship: Reframing the narrative in academic libraries

Journal of Access Services, 2021
With attention span at a premium now more than ever, especially because of stress and anxiety, comics can be a relaxing, fun, and educational way to understand our world.
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Comics and critical librarianship: reframing the narative in academic libraries

Technical Services Quarterly, 2020
As the title implies, Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries “considers comics librarianship through a lens of critical librarianship” (p. 5).
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A Critical Primer on Postmodernism: Lessons from Educational Scholarship for Librarianship

The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2006
Abstract Postmodernism is still the subject of vigorous ongoing debate in a variety of fields like education and anthropology and has now arrived in the literature of librarianship. Prior conflicts generated over postmodernism remain—including academic areas where it has been declared passe.
John Buschman, Richard A. Brosio
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A genealogy of radical librarianship: collectivity, action, and organisation as an alternative to critical librarianship

Radical librarianship and critical librarianship are in some ways complementary approaches to politically-motivated change within librarianship and information science. Despite their similarities, radical librarianship has remained a somewhat fringe position and has not gained the comparatively mainstream acceptance of critical librarianship.
Bowie, Simon, Britton, Siobhán, Sanders, Kevin   +2 more
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Critical Librarianship: Agency and Action in the Library

Slides for a presentation for Deakin University Library on 14 August 2024 titled 'Critical Librarianship: Action & Agency in the Library.' Critical Librarianship questions power and challenges the ‘traditional library model’ and its inherent bias, with the goal of dismantling inequalities and empowering communities.
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