“Knowledge creation is a conversation.”
— R. David Lankes
“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions — a movement against and
beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of
freedom.”
— bell hooks
Let’s stop talking about “students” as some undifferentiated mass or referring
to “my students,” a phrase that smacks of proprietorship, and start giving them
credit by name for the work they do
Academic librarians are worried about power. And powerlessness. They are
particularly concerned with the way power dynamics shape their identities as
educators and inform their pedagogical capacity.
Recent library scholarship has introduced a
You have to be a pretty tenacious researcher to find any criticism about
LibGuides, the practical and convenient tool that librarians use to create
online guides to research. My search for “LibGuides and