Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
Revue canadienne de bibliothéconomie universitaire

Volume 11, 2025 Special Focus on Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship Sous la direction de Sam Popowich, Lydia Zvyagintseva et Maura Seale

Cover image: Drawing by Reflection, 1883. From Scientific Amusements, translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier. Public Domain Image Archive, https://pdimagearchive.org/images/06f56fbc-ec78-451c-b5af-740f7671b354/.

Sommaire (30 articles)

Articles

  1. Sustainability in Library Collection Development: Introducing a Green Audit Template
  2. An Environmental Scan of Bibliometrics and Research Impact Open Instructional Trends at Canadian Academic Research Libraries
  3. Research, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Academic Librarians: An Analysis of the Vague Expectations in Canadian University Collective Agreements
  4. Big Deal Cancellations and Influences on Librarian Decision-Making
  5. Pages of Poison: Identifying 19th Century Arsenical Green Books at Queen’s University Library

Perspectives

  1. Finding the Right Fit: How (and Why!) Academic Libraries can Support Trades Education
  2. The Librarian’s Personal Research Agenda

Special Focus on Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship: Articles

  1. Editorial: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship / Éditorial : réflections et spéculations sur la bibliothéconomie critique
  2. Five Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies
  3. Conceptual Amelioration as a Response to Assumptions of Neutral Descriptive Language
  4. Without Neutrality: The Potential of Critical Librarianship
  5. Reimagining Critical Information Literacy as Creative Resistance
  6. A Genealogy of Radical Librarianship: Collectivity, Action, and Organization as an Alternative to Critical Librarianship
  7. “What is Progressive Librarianship Now?”
  8. In Defense of Imperfection

Special Focus on Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship: Perspectives

  1. Shocks from the Information Society: Three Documentary Poems on Critical Information Literacy

Book Reviews / Comptes rendus

  1. The High-Impact Digital Library: Innovative Approaches for Outreach and Instruction, by Anna Neatrour, Jeremy Myntti, Rachel Jane Wittmann, Rebekah Cummings, Jane D. Monson, and Megan Myres McMillan
  2. Queering Professionalism: Pitfalls and Possibilities, edited by Adam Davies and Cameron Greensmith
  3. Supporting Diversity through Collection Evaluation, Development, and Weeding: CLIPP #48, by Erica Barber, Julia Bauder, Micki Behounek, Chris Jones, Kayla Reed, and Elizabeth Rodrigues
  4. The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries, by Helen Rimmer
  5. Training Library Instructors, Volumes 1-2, by Matthew Weirick Johnson
  6. Critical Library Leadership: Managing Self and Others in Today's Academic Library, edited by Kristin Henrich and Cinthya Ippoliti
  7. Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation, by Val Napoleon, Rebecca Johnson, Richard Overstall, and Debra McKenzie
  8. Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library, edited by Brian Flota and Kate Morris
  9. Knowing Our Value and Our Values: Toward an Ethical Practice of Library Assessment, by Scott W. H. Young
  10. Academic Librarianship in Canada: Post-COVID Perspectives in a Neoliberal Era, edited by Jessica E. Shiers, Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens, Joanna Szurmak, and Meaghan Valant
  11. Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences, edited by Teresa Macias
  12. Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework, by Michele Santamaria and A. Nicole Pfnnenstiel
  13. Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color, by Ngoc-Yen Tran, Michael J. Aguilar II, and Adriana Poo
  14. Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace, edited by Gunilla Widen, Jose Teixeira

Licence

Anciens numéros de Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship / Revue canadienne de bibliothéconomie universitaire