The old and the prudish: an examination of sex, sexuality, and queerness in...
By Tiffany Henry, Rhonda Kauffman, and Anastasia Chiu In Brief Despite the fact that scholarship and knowledge about sex and sexuality have grown enormously in the last century, these topics in the...
View ArticleShakespeare, Science, and Outside Scholarship: An Interview with Dennis McCarthy
by Rochelle Smith In Brief The majority of the last century of research exists in the temporal space between the start of copyright and the dawn of the open access movement. Getting access to these...
View ArticleDispelling the Myth of Library Anxiety and Embracing Academic Discomfort
By Kelleen Maluski and Symphony Bruce In Brief Countless articles, essays, studies, and conference presentations have been devoted to library anxiety and defining, analyzing, and reviewing behaviors...
View ArticleSolidarity is for librarians: Lessons from organizing
By Diana Castillo and Kelly McElroy In Brief After many years of declining union membership, there is growing interest and effort to unionize workers in many sectors within the United States. While...
View ArticleA Genealogy of Open
by Betsy Yoon Abstract/In Brief The term open has become a familiar part of library and education practice and discourse, with open source software being a common referent. However, the conditions...
View ArticleCompounded Labor: Developing OER as a Marginalized Creator
by Jennifer Jordan In Brief From the lens of a new Online Educational Resources (OER) Librarian embarking on an OER initiative at an R1 university I reflect on creating and implementing an English OER...
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Dominant COVID Narratives and Implications for Information Literacy Education...
Image: Disorientation, by heiwa4126 (CC BY 2.0) In Brief Over the past three+ years that COVID-19 has changed everyday life across the globe, people around the world have been tasked with making sense...
View ArticleLibrarians’ Roles in Supporting Students’ Mental Health through Teaching...
In Brief Mental health and well-being is of increasing concern on college campuses. Grounded in feminist pedagogy and an ethic of care, this study asks what roles instruction librarians perceive...
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Let ‘No’ be ‘No’: When Librarians say ‘No’ to Instruction Opportunities
By Anna White In Brief There has been more literature about academic librarians saying ‘no’ in the last decade than in previous time periods. However, much of the existing work discusses how academic...
View ArticleEmpathy at Work
In Brief The purpose of this article is to center the experiences of librarians of color in academic libraries through a discussion of microaggressions and pandemic experiences of racial exclusion....
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