In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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Our Patrons Aren’t the Problem: Discourses of Safety Amidst a Toxic Drug Supply Crisis
In Brief The toxic drug supply crisis has had profound impacts on workers in Canadian public libraries. While library workers struggle with changing job duties, understaffing, and the mental and emotional toll of laboring during death times, narratives of unsafety that pivot on…
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No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries
In this article, I look at the idea of hiring social workers into public libraries through the lens of abolitionist librarianship. Often presented as an obvious answer to make libraries more inclusive, there is little evidence within the published literature that this model is…
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Moving Beyond Willpower: A New Direction for Media Literacy Instruction
In brief Academic librarians and others often engage with media literacy instruction by promoting fact-checking strategies, such as lateral reading or Mike Caulfield’s SIFT. Evidence shows that these strategies are valuable and can be effective, but they all ultimately rely on…
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How do we write about this?: Reflections on scholarship about immigrants, data literacy, surveillance, and academic freedom in 2025
In brief How do you write about immigrants, surveillance, and data literacy at a time when the political landscape around you is constantly shifting, immigrants are being targeted, and higher education is under threat? This question surfaced for us as we were writing an article…
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Another Way of Knowing: Resisting Eugenic Propaganda Through Community Archiving
In Brief: How do information workers resist the creation of archival “deathworlds”? With rising eugenicist rhetoric in the United States, sites of cultural memory face devastating impacts. These consequences are particularly felt by Disabled and multiply-marginalized…
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Fear and Burnout At the Interface of Librarianship and Māori Knowledge in Aotearoa New Zealand
By Kathryn Oxborrow Vambe In Brief: This article presents some findings from a study of non-Māori librarian engagement with Māori knowledge. I asked non-Māori librarians (who predominantly identified as New Zealand European, a local synonym for White) about their journeys of…
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Making Sense of GenAI Amidst AI Hype and AI Personalization
By Sarah Morris In Brief: Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy frameworks emphasize the importance of understanding Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. But our collective and individual understanding of GenAI is heavily shaped and mediated by the hype narratives that surround…
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Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher
In Brief: This article explores how minimal computing principles guided the parallel web development of two related but distinct publishing platforms, DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher. DigitalArc, a community-driven digital archive and exhibit platform, was developed in response…
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Seeking Approval, Confronting Objectivity: Neutrality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Approval Process
In Brief: This study examines the concept of neutrality in Library of Congress Subject Headings and the subject approval process by analyzing proposed headings that were rejected over a nearly 20-year period. It considers the place of neutrality in libraries more generally and…
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Memorial for Fobazi Ettarh
It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of trailblazer and fire-starter Fobazi Ettarh. Her loss will be felt by us all for years to come. Fobazi published two articles with us at ITLWTLP. In 2014 she wrote “Making a New Table: Intersectional…