📖 New book review! 📖
Joel Blechinger reviews Critical Voices in Library and Information Work, by Stephen Bales and Tina Budzise-Weaver
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📖 New book review! 📖
Karly Gunson reviews Educating with Empathy: A Holistic Framework for Teaching the Research Process, by Dawn Rogers Stahura
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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 ⤵️
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"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...
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🎉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 ⤵️
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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.
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...
🎉 This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship! 🎉
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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.
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...
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 📖
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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?
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...
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📖 New book review! 📖
Carol Leibiger reviews Training Library Instructors, Volumes 1-2, by Matthew Weirick Johnson
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Leah Guffroy and Jeff Verbeem explore trades librarianship in "Finding the Right Fit : How (and Why!) Academic Libraries can Support Trades Education".
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📖 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
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✍️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...
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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...
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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.
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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"
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📖 New book review! 📖
Erich Engler reviews "Critical Library Leadership: Managing Self and Others in Today's Academic Library"
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📖 New book review! 📖
Michelle Pettis reviews "The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries"
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📖 New book review! 📖
Maia Trotter reviews "Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library"
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📖 New book review! 📖
Douglas Fox reviews "The High-Impact Digital Library: Innovative Approaches for Outreach and Instruction." Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja...
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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.
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Congratulations, Tina Liu!
You can read her award-winning paper in CJAL: doi.org/10.33137/cja...
📙 New book review! 📙
Natasha Gerolami reviews "Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences," edited by Teresa Macias
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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...
📖 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
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"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
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Our Libraries and/as Extraction webinar is happening TOMORROW, 1:00-2:30 ET! See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
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.
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📚Nicole Eva reviews "Supporting Diversity through Collection Evaluation, Development, and Weeding (CLIPP #48)" in our latest book review!
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