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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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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…
Review of Solving Names: Worldliness and Metaphysics in Librarianship
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/136
Published: May 7, 2025 00:00
Review of Popowich, S. (2024). Solving Names: Worldliness and Metaphysics in Librarianship. Library Juice Press.
Representing the Spectrum, Autism in the United States Children’s Choice Book Award Nominees, 2014-2024
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/124
Published: April 13, 2025 00:00
This study examines the 67 books featuring autistic characters in a main or secondary role nominated on the United States’ children’s choice book award lists from 2014-2024. The books for this study were examined using directed critical qualitative content…
Review of Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/129
Published: January 31, 2025 20:56
Review of Kwet, M. (2024). Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival. Pluto House.
Will We Ever Learn?:
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/114
Published: January 21, 2025 00:00
This critical case study aims to explore the influences on the collection development procedures and practices of selector librarians to incorporate authentic voices and representation. At the time of this publication, there was limited literature on the…
Review of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/128
Published: December 15, 2024 00:00
Review of Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. Astra House.
Review of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering A.I.
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/125
Published: December 8, 2024 00:00
Review of Muldoon, J., Graham, M., & Cant, C. (2024). Feeding the machine: The hidden human labour powering A.I. Canongate Books.