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<p><em>Journal of Radical Librarianship</em> (ISSN 2399-956X) is an open access journal publishing high quality, rigorously reviewed and innovative scholarly work in the field of radical librarianship. It also publishes non-peer reviewed reports, commentary, and reviews. The scope of the journal is any work that contributes to a discourse around critical library and information theory and practice.</p>
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Settler Narratives
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/110
Published: November 8, 2025 19:36
The gendering of the library profession toward female dominance, occurring between 1876 and 1905, coincided with an influx of affluent, educated white settlers in California. The simultaneity of Westward expansion and gendering of librarianship laid the…
Immaterial, Emotional, Undervalued
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/132
Published: October 20, 2025 18:41
While there is some existing scholarship on serving trans/gender diverse patrons in libraries, the labour of trans/gender diverse library workers has received little examination. Until the publication of Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries, the…
Where It’s At
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/130
Published: September 29, 2025 00:00
Did you learn about social justice in your Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program? With libraries facing issues such as a boom in book challenges, controversial event bookings, decolonization, increasing securitization and policing in…
Highlights of SRRT History
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/150
Published: September 8, 2025 20:48
Copy of speech given at Building Radical Collections: Advocacy, Access, and Alliances with SRRT and Indie Presses program on Saturday, June 28, 2025. Article originally published by the Social Responsibility Round Table of the American Library Association…
Review of Platform Power and Libraries
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/148
Published: September 4, 2025 19:24
Review of Smith, C. F. (Ed.). (2025). Platform Power and Libraries. Library Juice Press.
Censorship, Artificial Intelligence, and AI Literacy
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/134
Published: August 28, 2025 00:00
This paper focuses on AI censorship, an under addressed aspect of AI risk that intersects with the foundational library tenets of information literacy and intellectual freedom. AI censorship is a form of “automated censorship in which AI systems are used…
The Bib Record in the Age of Digital Reproduction
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/135
Published: July 29, 2025 00:00
Taking both structural and thematic inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” this article posits that the movement from physical card catalogs to ALSs [Automated library systems] and ILSs [Integrated…
Slowing Down Together
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/122
Published: July 22, 2025 00:00
In this case study, library instruction workers at a four-year R1 university reflect on the timeline and process of creating an instruction working group and documenting a program centered on critical information literacy. The authors outline their initial…
Review of Solving Names: Worldliness and Metaphysics in Librarianship
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/139
Published: June 11, 2025 00:00
Review of Popowich, S. (2024). Solving Names: Worldliness and Metaphysics in Librarianship. Library Juice Press
Byte the Hand That Feeds
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/119
Published: May 16, 2025 00:00
The pervasive influence of late-stage capitalism in the 21st century has permeated all aspects of digital preservation efforts as well as the broader context of cultural heritage. This paper uses social media preservation to examine the intersection of…