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Journal of New Librarianship
ISSN 2471-3880 · University of Colorado at Boulder · 322 articles in the index
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Archival decolonization and buffalo restoration as acts of Native American cultural reclamation
Much research has been done exploring how settler archivists working in institutions occupying Indigenous land can involve Native peoples in the care of their archival materials. Similarly, there has been much scholarship exploring the causes of the near extinction of the North American bison and…
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Review of Interrogation to Integration: Centering Social Justice in Special Collections, Archives and Preservation
Review of Interrogation to integration: Centering social justice in special collections, archives and preservation, edited by Kim Hoffman and Rachel Makarowski. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2025. 396 pp. ISBN 979-8-89255-559-3.
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What I Wish You Knew About OER: Contrasting Librarian and Faculty Perspectives from an OER Couple
When you talk to others on your campus about OER, do you ever feel like you’re speaking different languages? So do we, and we’re a married couple working at the same campus! One a scholarly communication librarian in charge of campus-wide OER advocacy, and the other a faculty member who’s adopted…
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Review of Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles
Review of Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles by Amanda Nichols Hess. ALA Editions, 2025. ISBN: 979-8892553247
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Review of Innovative Library Workplaces: Transformative Human Resource Strategies
Review of Innovative library workplaces: Transformative human resources strategies, edited by Lisa Kallman Hopkins and Bridgit McCafferty. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2025. 392 pp. ISBN 9798892555357.
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Collection Development as Anti-Racism
Social justice issues have received increasing attention in academic libraries in recent decades, and from 2020, were prominent in the messaging of institutions that published anti-racist statements on their websites. Using a content analysis approach, this study explores a sample of these texts to…
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Listening, Learning, Accommodating
Research consultations continue to be a valuable means of connecting with users and supporting their research needs. As we’ve received an increasing number of research consultations where one or more accommodations have been requested, the Kennesaw State University Libraries have been exploring…
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Implementation of a Low-Tech, Low-Cost Microclimate Assessment Strategy in a Small University Library
Academic libraries commonly employ commercial data loggers for continuous monitoring of microclimate conditions of collections. Yet, for small and medium-sized academic libraries, the proposition of sustainable microclimate monitoring and the initiation of a collection preservation program requires…
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Review of Data Culture in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide to Building Communities, Partnerships, and Collaborations
Review of Data Culture in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide to Building Communities, Partnerships, and Collaborations, edited by Marcela Y. Isuster and Alisa Beth Rod. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2025. 338 pp. ISBN 9798892556156.
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Radical Vulnerability
This paper discusses the implications, challenges, and impacts of the Pedagogy of Real-Talk on the ability to foster connectedness in library instruction. Autoethnography is employed to position the author’s experience as the subject of study, attempting to re-inset the importance of librarian…
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Exploring the Viability of the OSU Library Concierge
Wayfinding and navigating new spaces often create confusion, frustration, and anxiety for users. From architectural features to the lack of a service design lens in planning, there are many complex factors to navigate the built environment. Oregon State University’s main library (OSUL) is not…
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Faculty Outreach Strategies in Business Librarianship
Business disciplines present distinctive pedagogical and research information needs which in turn require equally distinctive outreach approaches. This paper looks to provide a set of adaptable, practice-based strategies that operationalize outreach competencies for academic business librarians…
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Review of Organize Your Library: Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers
As stated in the early sections of this book, “(it) is a how-to. It tells the stories of those who’ve started their own unions, negotiated contracts, and bargained for the common good of their communities.” The book is well organized, starting with an introductory definition of unions and why they…
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Librarianship, After the Information Shock
In 2019 I wrote of the need for a new librarianship centered on knowledge, and the learning conversation. While that argument holds seven years later, I did not anticipate that those conversations could be held with a non-human conversant. This is causing an Information Shock whose impact goes far…
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Visible Teaching, Invisible Systems
This reflective essay examines how resource sharing, particularly interlibrary loan (ILL), can bridge the gap between library instruction theory and actual student research behavior. Drawing on my experience as an early-career academic librarian, I explore how engaging with resource-sharing…
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A Reminiscence and a Celebration
This essay is a look back at the founding of the Journal of New Librarianship and the success it has achieved over the past ten years. The essay acknowledges the contributions of those many people on the editorial board, the peer reviewers, and the contributors who have made the journal a…
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De-centering and Re-centering Digital Scholarship, Ten Years On
Ten years after the publication of a manifesto attempting to describe what digital scholarship could do for and within libraries, some of the original authors reflect on the progress of the call-to-action. This article describes areas in which the integration of digital scholarship activities as…
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Beyond the “New Normal”
This piece looks back on a column we wrote in 2022, reflecting upon our experience during the COVID-19 pandemic called “A Sustainable Way Forward: A Team-based Approach to Tackling Textbook Access and Affordability Issues During the “New Normal.” We highlight some of the changes, good and bad, that…
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Reflection
Eight years after publishing Trouble for a New Generation in Librarianship, the author reflects on his experience now. Drawing on a decade of professional experience the author argues that many structural inequities identified in 2018 remain. The profession continues to rely heavily on prior…
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Innovation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In 2020 our library launched a project to train student assistants to remediate inaccessible Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We revisit that original project to reflect on how it has evolved into an established program and policy. We describe the…