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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📖 New book review! 📖 Justin Bower reviews Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience, by Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Library

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Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience, by Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Erich Engler reviews Teaching Information Literacy through Faculty Development, by Jane Hammons: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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Teaching Information Literacy through Faculty Development, by Jane Hammons | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Merran Carr-Wiggin reviews Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact, by Kate McDowell: doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact, by Kate McDowell | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Indraneel Shinde reviews AI-Powered Cataloguing: A Practical Guide to Building a Cataloguing Application with Power Apps, by Hannes Lowagie: doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's a summer of book reviews 😎📚 Check out our new reviews this month ⤵️ Nat Johnson-Tyghter reviews Exploring Contemporary Classification Practices, ed. by Jack Andersen and Joacim Hansson doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Library

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New book reviews published this morning! 📖 Jennifer Dekker reviews Platform Power and Libraries, ed. by Christine F. Smith: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... Nicole Slattery reviews Solving Names: Worldliness and Metaphysics in Librarianship, by Sam Popowich: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #AcademicSky #Library

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New reviews! 📖 🤖 Michael Ridley reviews Artificial Intelligence for Academic Libraries, by Clifford B. Anderson and Douglas H. Fisher ⤵️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... Brianna Calomino reviews Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, by Karen Hao ⤵️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AI #Library

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

📖 New book review! 📖 Joel Blechinger reviews Critical Voices in Library and Information Work, by Stephen Bales and Tina Budzise-Weaver Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #CritLib #Library

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📖 New book review! 📖 Karly Gunson reviews Educating with Empathy: A Holistic Framework for Teaching the Research Process, by Dawn Rogers Stahura Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #ResearchProcess #Library

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Michael Kirby explores liberal climate activism, its "essentially unquestioned commitment to 'green growth,' or the notion that economic expansion can continue indefinitely alongside ecological sustainability," and greenwashing in libraries in our latest article ⤵️ doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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Confronting the “Green” Discourse of Librarianship | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"With growing concern over student stress, burnout, and wellbeing, libraries have an opportunity to support student success through creative means, including play." Read more in Glyneva Bradley-Ridout's "Making the Case for Play in Academic Libraries"➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

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Making the Case for Play in Academic Libraries | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🎉CJAL is delighted to release our latest special issue, Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship, co-edited by Sam Popowich, Lydia Zvyagintseva, and Maura Seale. Read the full volume here ⤵️ cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #CritLib #Libraries #AcademicSky

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Vol. 11 (2025): including Special Focus on Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

To mark the journal’s tenth anniversary, we are delighted to highlight the most-viewed articles published in each of the ten years of CJAL’s history: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

2016: Beilin, Ian. “Student Success and the Neoliberal Academic Library.” Volume 1.

2017: Tkach, David. “The Situatedness of the Seeker: Toward a Heideggerian Understanding of Information Seeking.” Volume 2.

2018: Harrington, Marni R., and Ania Dymarz. “Consultants in Academic Libraries: Challenging, Renewing, and Extending the Dialogue.” Volume 3.

2019: Skyrme, Alison Elizabeth, and Lisa Levesque. “New Librarians and the Practice of Everyday Life.” Volume 5.

2020: Nataraj, Lalitha, Holly Hampton, Talitha R. Matlin, and Yvonne Nalani Meulemans. “‘Nice White Meetings’: Unpacking Absurd Library Bureaucracy through a Critical Race Theory Lens.” Volume 6.

2021: Doro, Nicole. “‘The IR Is a Nice Thing But. ’: Attitudes and Perceptions of the Institutional Repository.” Volume 7.

2022: Laverty, Corinne, and Francine Berish. 2022. “Decolonizing Librarians’ Teaching Practice: In Search of a Process and a Pathway.” Volume 8.

2023: Friesen, Erica, Hannah Tanna, and Angélique Roy. “Artificial Intelligence in Subject-Specific Library Work: Trends, Perspectives, and Opportunities.” Volume 9.

2024: Colbert-Lewis, Danielle, lawrence maminta, Kelly McElroy, Graeme Slaght, and Mark Swartz. “The Citation Economy As a Site of Extraction for Surveillance Publishing.” Volume 10.

2025: Palmer, Megan, Laura Bredahl, and Kari Weaver. “An Environmental Scan of Bibliometrics and Research Impact Open Instructional Trends at Canadian Academic Research Libraries.” Volume 11.

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

🎉 This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship! 🎉 cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #library #AcademicLibrary #AcademicSky

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

To mark the journal’s tenth anniversary, we are delighted to highlight the most-viewed articles published in each of the ten years of CJAL’s history: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Susan Bond reviews "Knowing Our Value and Our Values: Toward an Ethical Practice of Library Assessment" by Scott W. H. Young in our latest book review 📖 Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Assessment #LibrarySky

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Reminder: there are only 10 days left to submit to our latest CFP! ⌛ We are inviting submissions to our special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. Learn more and submit your proposal by Dec. 18: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #AcademicSky #LibrarySky #OA

Libraries have long served as mediators between people and technologies, from catalogues to databases to digitized surrogates. Recent literature has called for academic libraries to position themselves as leaders in advancing AI literacy, framing its adoption as both inevitable and essential. Yet as access to information becomes increasingly privatized through corporate-controlled platforms and as generative AI comes to dominate professional discourse and reshape user expectations, the stakes of these entanglements demand critical reflection. How do libraries reconcile their commitments to access, equity, sustainability, and integrity with the next wave of transformation, one that exacerbates preexisting pressures and generates new ones around concepts like surveillance, labour precarity, intellectual property, and environmental harm?

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

📖 New book review! 📖 Carol Leibiger reviews Training Library Instructors, Volumes 1-2, by Matthew Weirick Johnson Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library #pedagogy

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Leah Guffroy and Jeff Verbeem explore trades librarianship in "Finding the Right Fit : How (and Why!) Academic Libraries can Support Trades Education". Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library #trades

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Finding the Right Fit : How (and Why!) Academic Libraries can Support Trades Education | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

📖 New book review! 📖 Lisa Shin reviews "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 Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

✍️CFP! We are inviting submissions to our special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. Read more and submit by Dec. 18: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #AcademicSky #LibrarySky #OA

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Call for proposals: CJAL special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Renewal, promotion, and tenure are stressful academic career milestones. Power and Wheatley explore them in "Research, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Academic Librarians: An Analysis of the Vague Expectations in Canadian University Collective Agreements" ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky

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Research, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Academic Librarians: An Analysis of the Vague Expectations in Canadian University Collective Agreements | Canadian Journal of Academic Librari...

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In one of our latest articles, Maureen Babb discusses how developing a personal research agenda can enhance librarians’ work and guide them in their research journey. Read it and find practical tips here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #AcademicLibrarian #research

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The Librarian’s Personal Research Agenda | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Cassady, Hare, Mongeon, & Johnson investigate decision-making practices and processes of librarians concerned with the cancellation of Big Deals in one of our latest articles, "Big Deal Cancellations and Influences on Librarian Decision-Making" ↪️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Libraries

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Big Deal Cancellations and Influences on Librarian Decision-Making | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

📖 New book review! 📖 Erich Engler reviews "Critical Library Leadership: Managing Self and Others in Today's Academic Library" Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

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Critical Library Leadership: Managing Self and Others in Today's Academic Library, edited by Kristin Henrich and Cinthya Ippoliti | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

📖 New book review! 📖 Michelle Pettis reviews "The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries" Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

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The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries, by Helen Rimmer | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

📖 New book review! 📖 Maia Trotter reviews "Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library" Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

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Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library, edited by Brian Flota and Kate Morris | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Congratulations, Kristin Hoffmann! 🥳 Kristin was a founding editor of CJAL, and the lasting impact of her contributions to CAPAL is evidenced by the success and growth of this journal. Read more: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📙 New book review! 📙 Natasha Gerolami reviews "Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences," edited by Teresa Macias Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #libraries #AcademicSky

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Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences, edited by Teresa Macias | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Le comité des publications de l'ACBES/CAPAL lance un appel à candidatures pour le poste de Rédactrice.teur en chef.fe français de la Revue canadienne de bibliothéconomie universitaire / Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (Rcbu/CJAL), revue savante de l'ACBES: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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Rédactrice ou rédacteur français recherché pour la Revue canadienne de bibliothéconomie universitaire / Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianshi...

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

📖 New book review! 📖 Victoria Levang reviews "Information literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework," by Michele Santamaria and A. Nicole Pfnnenstiel Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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Information literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework, by Michele Santamaria and A. Nicole Pfnnenstiel | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Books created using copper acetoarsenite, a green pigment, remain in our libraries and personal collections, with potential health implications." See more in Bell & Canham, Pages of Poison: Identifying 19th Century Arsenical Green Books at Queen's University ❇️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky

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Pages of Poison: Identifying 19th Century Arsenical Green Books at Queen's University | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Our Libraries and/as Extraction webinar is happening TOMORROW, 1:00-2:30 ET! See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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CJAL Libraries and/as Extraction Special Issue Webinar | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Our webinar celebrating our recent special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction is coming up NEXT WEEK on April 8, 1:00-2:30 ET. Join our special issue co-editors in conversation with our authors! There will be opportunity for Q&A. Register ⤵️ arizona.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #libraries #AcademicSky

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📖 New book review 📖 Tim Ribaric reviews 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 ↪️https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v11.44650 #AcademicSky #neoliberalism #libraries

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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 | Canadian Journal...

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In "The Economics of Identity: How EDI Initiatives Treat Racialized Identities as Currency in Academic Libraries," Liu examines and critiques top-down institutional EDI policies and plans from Canadian academic libraries. Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #libraries #OA

“[The diversity model and racial capitalism] serve to enhance the deficit narrative and treat racialized identities as currency with exchange value: this serves to further entrench structures that replicate systemic racial inequities. Within the confines of racial capitalism, race thus becomes a resource to be extracted and exploited.” Liu 2024

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Tinajero-Vazquez & Carr reflect on their experiences as an intern and supervisor navigating traditional and antiquated norms upheld in academia in "Cultural Wealth, Co-creation, and Conversations: Reimagining Academic Internships." Read it ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #libraries #AcademicSky #OA

"The exchange of labour for experience creates inequities and perpetuates the extractive relationship between libraries and BIPOC employees." Tinajero-Vazquez & Carr 2024.

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In "Extraction on Display," Salas Landa & Xu provide an excellent reflection on how they use object-centered research to encourage students to explore the extractive practices that have shaped museum and library collections. Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #libraries #AcademicSky #OA

“By critically examining the provenance, trajectories, and decontextualization of objects, students confront how libraries and museums have extracted materials produced by marginalized groups and how these violent histories are rarely taught or confronted, allowing for their reproduction.” Salas Landa & Xu 2024

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We are excited to announce a webinar celebrating our recent special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction on April 8, 1:00-2:30 ET. Join our special issue co-editors in conversation with our authors! There will be opportunity for Q&A. Register ⤵️ arizona.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #libraries #AcademicSky

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How do we identify primary and secondary sources? What does this mean for Indigenous knowledge and authorities? Watkins and Randall call on librarians to critically assess their roles in maintaining colonial structures. Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #libraries #AcademicSky #OA

“The way primary and secondary sources are classified and taught by librarians and the academy reflects power, reinforces dominant systems, and enables the extraction of Indigenous Knowledge.” Watkins & Randall 2024

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Kersting-Lark, Kenyon, & Seiferle-Valencia define and challenge institutional "pioneer veneration" in libraries and archives in their article from our recent special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction. Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #libraries #AcademicSky #OA

“In practice, pioneer veneration manifests in settler histories being carefully preserved and uncritically reproduced in institutional collections, in the stories told by and about colonization, and in the voices and perspectives excluded or only included for extractive aims.” Kersting-Lark, Kenyon, & Seiferle-Valencia 2024

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Have you read "What No Means: Indigenous Feminist Refusal to Library Extraction" by @desmondcwong.bsky.social? Check it out here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #libraries #AcademicSky #OA

“Libraries that do not strive to be reciprocal and transformational in their relationships with Indigenous peoples will only serve as a barrier to Indigenous resurgence. Instead, we must reconceptualize librarianship practices toward a liberatory practice.” Wong 2024

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Review of Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace, edited by Gunilla Widen and Jose Teixeira, by Samantha Zani. doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace, edited by Gunilla Widen, Jose Teixeira | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"An Environmental Scan of Bibliometrics and Research Impact Open Instructional Trends at Canadian Academic Research Libraries" by Megan Palmer, Laura Bredahl, and Kari Weaver. doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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An Environmental Scan of Bibliometrics and Research Impact Open Instructional Trends at Canadian Academic Research Libraries | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"Sustainability in Library Collection Development" by David McCord, Samuel Cassady, Paige Roman, Jacqueline Cato, and Elizabeth Mantz. doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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Sustainability in Library Collection Development: Introducing a Green Audit Template | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New publications! A thread of new reading, hot off the press 🧵 #libraries #AcademicSky #OA

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