In The Demise of the Library School, Richard J. Cox places the present and future of professional...

Oftentimes, academic librarians are not fully conscious of the role that their libraries play in ...

A growing number of librarians are engaged with critical theories such as critical pedagogy, femi...

Feminist pedagogy employs strategies such as collaborative learning, valuing experiential knowled...

Librarians tend to love their work and consider librarianship a great career. This book is by a t...

Libraries and the Enlightenment

Filomena Magavero was an academic librarian at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, New York, wher...

Since library instruction's very beginnings librarians and writing instructors have been natural ...

Providing both a theoretical framework and practical guidance, this title introduces feminist ped...

Psychology is a factor in virtually every aspect of librarianship. Beyond the expected psychologi...

It is difficult to turn on the television or read a news story today without learning about how g...

In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our field to join conversations in other discipl...

Library education is changing. At a time when librarianship is increasingly seen as part of the i...

Academic librarians are exploring critical information literacy (CIL) in ever increasing numbers....

This edited collection captures the current status and future direction of libraries' commitment ...

Does gender play a role in library information technology (I.T.)? For the last several decades, l...

Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries is a collective oral history ...

The current crisis of capitalism has led to the renewed interest in Marxism and its core categori...

Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians is an anthology of personal accounts b...

The idea that libraries are crucial democratic institutions has a long history in librarianship. ...

She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West is a compilation of reflections and tales from fri...

The three papers in this volume were written in the wake of a single policy decision at the Libra...

Over the past fifteen years, librarians have increasingly looked to theory as a means to destabil...

Bringing together the voices of a range of practicing librarians, this collection illuminates the...

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership makes explicit the ways in whic...

Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library is a philosophical and historical analysis of how t...

Reference work often receives short shrift in the contemporary discourse and practice of libraria...

Using a Critical Theory framework, Toward a Critical-Inclusive Assessment Practice for Library In...

Though it is still not uncommon to hear the question 'Comics? In libraries?!', comics collections...

Beyond Article 19: Libraries and Social and Cultural Rights addresses the subject of libraries an...

Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis extends the discussion of in...

Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collectio...

This book introduces North Americans and other general readers to 1) the role of Afro-Cubans in C...

Library Daylight is an eclectic collection of 36 articles about libraries and librarianship publi...

Catalogers hold very specific types of power when they describe people, families, and corporate b...

Jesse Hauk Shera did perhaps more than any other figure in defining library and information scien...

Borne of a professional development workshop, Teaching for Justice highlights the commitment and ...

Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation explores the reinterpretation and resit...

This book offers a comprehensive look at the experiences of people of color after the recruitment...

This book presents a retro-progressive proposal for the education of librarians: the removal of l...

With a focus on Canada, this collection provides a historical and current perspective regarding t...

The rise of Google and its integration into nearly every aspect of our lives has pushed libraries...

André Cossette's Humanism and Libraries is a concise but rigorous investigation into the foundati...

Social justice in library and information science (LIS) seeks to achieve action-oriented, sociall...

Queer identities are complex. They are embedded in a web of intersectionality and often challengi...

Libraries and Nonprofits: Collaboration for the Public Good explores collaborations between libra...

The existing reference literature on intellectual freedom tends to focus on topics such as govern...

Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian presents essays that relate to ...