Open to What? A Critical Evaluation of OER Efficacy Studies
In Brief This selective literature review evaluates open educational resources (OER) efficacy studies through the lens of critical pedagogy. OER have radical potential as transformative... Read More
Teaching with Care: A Relational Approach to Individual Research Consultations
In Brief Although single-session instruction makes it difficult for librarians to build deep relationships with the students they teach, individual research consultations offer great opportunities... Read More
Information Privilege and First-year Students: A Case Study from a First-year Seminar Course Using Access to Information as a Lens for Exploring Privilege
In Brief This article explores the topic of information privilege and how this concept can be used with first-year students to teach about information literacy... Read More
No Holds Barred: Policing and Security in the Public Library
In Brief Library and Information Studies (LIS) has traditionally taken a conservative and uncritical approach to security and policing in libraries. The available literature usually... Read More
Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance
In Brief Information capitalism, the system where information, a historically, largely free and ubiquitous product of basic communication, is commodified by private owners for profit,... Read More
Consultants in Canadian Academic Libraries: Adding New Voices to the Story
In Brief The practice of hiring consultants in academic libraries is widespread, but research on the topic is not. We argue that this practice stems... Read More
When Does Burnout Begin? The Relationship Between Graduate School Employment and Burnout Amongst Librarians
In Brief Burnout issues are of increasing concern for many service professionals, including Library and Information Science (LIS) workers; however, the majority of articles addressing... Read More
Leading from the Center: Reimagining Feedback Conversations at an Academic Library
In Brief What if we brought the same compassion and learner mindset that we use with students to our interactions with colleagues? Inspired by change... Read More
Against medicine: Constructing a queer-feminist community health informatics and librarianship
In Brief Community health informatics (CHI) is rapidly developing as a field of library practice but remains constrained by unexamined definitions of “community”, “health”, and... Read More
Sliding Across the Database Divide with Proactive Chat Help
In Brief Proactive chat help has gained attention in academic libraries for increasing the number of questions from online users. Librarians have reported a significant... Read More