Some Librarians
Some librarians are also teachers and some teachers are also librarians. But a librarian isn’t necessarily a teacher, and they may not want to be, even though some of their duties include teaching. An interesting article from 1979, Librarians as Teachers: The Study of an Organization Fiction by Pauline Wilson, which I discovered via this website and author. Pauline Wilson. (1979). Librarians as Teachers: The Study of an Organization Fiction. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 49(2), 146–162. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4307078
Continue reading –>Codes
Codes exist and codes are needed. Rules are needed. We wish they weren’t; we wish everyone could be trusted to be appropriate and respectful in shared space, but we can’t. Whether or not we used to be able to do this better as societies on the whole is a different matter, as is the possible causes or reasons for this change. So now that we have to, we will. I reviewed a couple of good models of how to do that:1. RightsCon2. Digital Library Federation (from here) What I appreciate about both of these codes of conduct are this: Specificity – it is one thing to indicate…
Continue reading –>The Source
“The marginalized library worker is subject to inequities, while the white/heteronormative worker has the luxury of choosing whether or not to engage or interrogate inequities.” (Ferretti 142) This article is written by the woman who graciously shared her syllabus readings with me – as she has done willingly and openly with many others. Ferretti, J. A. (2020). Building a Critical Culture: How Critical Librarianship Falls Short in the Workplace. Communications in Information Literacy, 14 (1), 134-152. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.1.10
Continue reading –>Self Study
Whooo has it taken me a while to get back to here. “Here” being this writing space and “here” being the place where I reside internally, where I know who I am and how I can be useful. It’s been a long pause but I feel ready to participate again. I’ve taken the initiative to be less of a consumer of information in my third career phase and have asked an expert in Critical Librarianship for her course reading list, so that I can get back to being comfortable in my activist roots – similar focus, older audience, differently-aged me. The first…
Continue reading –>Don’t feel like writing much these days…
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