The politics of theory and the practice of critical librarianship
By: editors, Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Sacramento, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781634000307
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Libraries and society; Social justice; Libraries; Library science; Social aspects; Philosophy; Academic libraries; Political aspects; Indigenous research methodology; Indigenous research ethics; Indigenous pedagogy; Indigenous peoples; Decolonization; Healing; First Nations; Librarians; Māori; Students; Postsecondary
Description: "Over the past fifteen years, librarians have increasingly looked to theory as a means to destablize normative discourses and practices with LIS, to engage in inclusive and non-authoritarian pedagogies, and to organize for social justice. "Critlib", short for "critical librarianship," is variously used to refer to a growing body of scholarship, an intellectual or activist movement within librarianship, an online community that occasionally organizes in-person meetings, and an informal Twitter discussion space active since 2014, identified by the #critlib hashtag. Critlib "aims to engage in discussion about critical perspectives on library practice" but it also seeks to bring 'socal justice principles into our work in libraries' (http://critlib.org/about/)." --Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale; title: In Resistance to a Capitalist Past: Emerging Practices of Critical Librarianship / Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins; title: "Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists": Marxism, Technology, and Library Work / Sam Popowich; title: Making the Case for a Sociocultural Perspective on Information Literacy / Alison Hicks; title: Critical Systems Librarianship / Simon Barron and Andrew Preater; title: Disability at Work: Libraries, Built to Exclude / Jessica Schomberg; title: Ordering Things / Sarah J. Coysh, William Denton and Lisa Sloniowski; title: Indigenous Information Literacy: nêhiyaw Kinship Enabling Self-Care in research / Jessis Loyer; title: Envisioning a Critical Archival Pedagogy / Michelle Caswell; title: Reflections on Running a CritLIS Reading Group / Penny Andrews, Elizabeth L. Chapman, Jessica Elmore, Dan Grace, Emily Nunn, and Sheila Webber; title: Reflections on Resistance, Decolonization, and the Historical Trauma of Libraries and Academia / Nicola Andrews; title: Critical Librarianship as an Academic Pursuit / Ian Beilin; title: Each According to Their Ability: Zine Librarians Talking About Their Community / Violet Fox, Kelly McElroy, Jude Vachon and Kelly Wooten; title: Quantitative Researchers, Critical Librarians: Potential Allies in Pursuit of a Socially Just Praxis / Selinda Adelle Berg; title: Interrogating the Collective: #Critlib and the Problem of Community / Nora Almeida.