Coaching as Critical Leadership Praxis - ACRLog Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Angela Pashia, who was an academic librarian for 12 years before becoming an ICF-Certified (ACC) leadership coach. For the first half of my library car...

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Drawing connections between critical pedagogy and coaching as a leadership skill

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I need the library field to please catch up with and accept reality: in-person conferences in the US can't be a thing anymore. (Or outside the US, if you want Americans there.) #libraries #CritLib #CripLib

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

🎉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

ARLIS/NA Critical Librarianship SIG Meeting Topic: Current State of Institutional DEI Initiatives Feb. 6 at 11:00 PT/2:00 ET RSVP For Zoom Link Two people talking: 1: "Anything to Read?" 2: "Yes! Check out “Moving Beyond the Acronym” from American Libraries. Discussion will start there."

Mark the calendar! The #CritLib SIG will meet 2/6 to talk about the current state of DEI. Discussion will start from "Moving Beyond the Acronym" and cover institutional mandates, current climates, & personal experiences. Find the RSVP link on the events calendar! linktr.ee/arlisna #skybrarians

🚨 Last day to submit a session proposal for our first stage CfP 🚨
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#CritLib #LibrarySky #Skybrarians #CALC26

Teaching critical information literacy through popular culture: A media studies approach using the Oz texts | Journal of Information Literacy

New project report:

Teaching critical information literacy through popular culture: A media studies approach using the Oz texts.

Daniel Williford describes this approach which saw an increase in engagement and application of critical #InfoLit in practice.

OA: doi.org/10.11645/19....

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Biblioteconomia critica e inclusiva Pubblicato il libro Biblioteconomia critica e inclusiva. Teorie, pratiche e prospettive, prefazione di Chiara Faggiolani.

Biblioteconomia critica e inclusiva rossanamorriello.info/2025/12/06/b...
#criticallibrarianship #critlib #inclusivelibraries

For more on this topic, read Dijana Šobota’s 2023-2024 Ross Todd Award-winning article from volume 17, issue 1 (2023):

Critical workplace information literacy: Laying the groundwork for a new construct

Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.11645/17....

#InfoLit #CritLib 🏆

Mapping the core dimensions of information literacy in the critical and workplace domain: A thematic analysis | Journal of Information Literacy

New research article!

Mapping the core dimensions of information literacy in the critical and workplace domain: a thematic analysis

2023-24 Ross Todd Award winner Dijana Šobota develops the critical workplace information literacy (CWIL) construct.

OA: doi.org/10.11645/19....

#InfoLit #CritLib

You can submit ideas in traditional abstract, our guided abstract and video format. Full support and feedback is available, esp for first-time conference presenters.
Closing date for Stage 1 is Friday 19th Dec.
Conference will be online w/c 11th May 2026.
#CritLib #LibrarySky #Skybrarians

The surveys will close on December 5, 2025. If you have questions about the survey or the Working Group, please email working group chairs Allison Bailund abailund@sdsu.edu or Rebecca Saunders rlsaunders@email.wcu.edu.

#critlib #critcat

Library Framework 2025 The Library Framework sets out our goals and key areas of work for the Library at Goldsmiths.

📚 News from Goldsmiths Library: we've launched our new Library Framework, our strategic plan for the next few years.

I'm most pleased our Framework is values-driven and hope it includes what you expect from us: focus on critical #infolit / #critlib, anti-racism and community.

Read it here ⤵️⤵️⤵️

Radical Cataloging This collection of critical and scholarly essays addresses the state of cataloging in the world of librarianship. The contributors, including Sanford Berman, Thomas Mann, and numerous front-line libra...

📄Chaper 'The Hidden History of Queer Subject Access' from 📗'Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front'
edited by K.R. Roberto
#Cataloguing
#Cataloging
#Metadata
#CritLib
#LGBTQ

tinyurl.com/mr3tarfd

- raised over $50k in mutual aid funds during the 2020 uprising
- kept my mom afloat during cancer treatment because I could share her GFM much more widely
- learned there was something called #critlib and met a lot of likeminded library workers
- met ppl who helped me get at least 2 jobs
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Upcoming courses from Library Juice Academy, including: Intro to Metadata, Wikidata for Catalogers, Exploring Diverse Books for Young Readers, Introduction to Comics Librarianship

Upcoming courses from Library Juice Academy, including: Caring for Collections, Cultural Competence for Librarians, Critical Information Literacy, Excel for Librarians

Amazing courses coming up!!!

See them all here: libraryjuiceacademy.com/all-courses/

#libraries #librarians #libraryEducation #comics4Libraries #metadata #wikidata4Librarians #criticalInstructionLiteracy #critLib

Eternally impressed by @brimwats.com
So grateful to have some of my lived experience included in this research.
#critcat #critlib

Critical library leadership : managing self and others in today's academic library | WorldCat.org Provides practical, library-specific, hands-on tools that help us shape our approach to leadership and ourselves as leaders. It gives practical strategies for dealing with stress and addressing feelin

📝'De-bias your hiring practices: supporting equity for #neurodiverse candidates in job interviews'
From Section IV: Management practices in
Critical library leadership: managing self and others in today's academic library.
search.worldcat.org/title/143866...

#Workplace
#Management
#CritLib
#LIS

Librarians’ Views on Critical Theories and Critical Practices This study was conducted to investigate levels of familiarity that librarians have with critical theory, to determine the extent to which it informs professional practices, and to examine how the s...

' #Librarians’ Views on Critical Theories and Critical Practices' ⬇️

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#Library
#LibraryWorker
#Research
#LIS
#Workplace
#CritLib

ARLIS/NA Call for Presentations ARLIS CRIT Lib SIG Montreal 2026 Pre-coordinated panel Have an idea? Fill out the interest form by 9/12!

The Critical Librarianship SIG co-chairs want to hear from you! They're coordinating a panel for #arlisna2026. If you have a topic related to #CritLib they want to know. Find the form to submit your idea on arlis-l. Not on the listserv? Join today: linktr.ee/arlisna #skybrarians #LISresearch

Feedback Survey about Form Subdivision ($v) Omission from Subject Headings The Library of Congress announced in January 2025 that as part of a linked data-friendly “Modern MARC” cataloging practice, they will no longer include form/genre subdivisions (e.g., 600 $v, 650 $v, 6...

ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on $v Retention invites participation in a survey investigating potential impacts of the Library of Congress' omission of form subdivisions ($v) in subject headings. Please share!
tinyurl.com/2792hbkn
#critcat #critlib

Ever since Knowledge Justice's release, I've noticed that a lot of people seem unclear that CRT analysis can impact what day-to-day library work looks/feels like. This is what it looks like when @mariayakira.bsky.social, April Hathcock, and I apply CRT to our work together. #scholcomm #critlib

so excited for people to read this article and share their thoughts! 🥳 #criticalracetheory #scholcomm #critlib #libraries

#critlib 📚 📃 📜

#CALC2020 - YouTube

ALSO I fixed* all the captions for the #CALC2020 videos so go get watching those too!

(*I think, LMK if something is wrong.)

#CALC25 #Critlib

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I’m looking for an accessible reading suggestion for non-librarians to better understand what an “archive” is and is not (vs a digital collection, a catalog, etc.) Any ideas? 🙏🏻 #DH #critlib

Second a fascinating roundtable discussion from numerous #CritLib folks 'Changing the landscape: a roundtable discussion on de/colonial dimensions of LIS praxis'
Using themes of Power, Being and Knowledge the panel discuss critical LIS education, research and practice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cwQ...

We're almost done with captioning for #CALC25.
Two more videos are up this week 🤩

#Critlib #LibrarySky #SkyBrarians

And second is @siobhanh.bsky.social's discussion of the power dynamics and critical critique of Human Library events.

#CALC25 #CritLib #LibrarySky #Skybrarians
youtu.be/bSOZzF0KzMU

Double bill of #CALC25 recordings released today 🥳

First is Jonathan Koestlé-Cate & Alexandra Lourenço Dias' session 'Book Alchemy' discussing an activity originally designed for dyslexic students that brings new life to old book through art

#CritLib #Skybrarians #LibrarySky

youtu.be/mPKTg5QRhio

Looking for an awesome start to your week?
How's about this amazing #CALC25 recording I've just released.
This is LaShawnDa Pittman & Trelani Michelle fantastic session on their work 'Archiving and digitizing Black grandmothers worldmaking'
#LibrarySky #CritLib #Skybrarians

youtu.be/LhgyrTR-i74