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Libraries Staff Publications
This collection contains publications of staff at the University of Alberta Libraries.
Items in this Collection
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“The Power of Knowledge, Objectified”: Immaterial Labor, Cognitive Capitalism, and Academic Librarianship
“The Power of Knowledge, Objectified”: Immaterial Labor, Cognitive Capitalism, and Academic Librarianship
Download2020-02-03
This article analyzes current trends in academic librarianship from the perspective of Italian autonomist Marxism. With the rise of new technologies and the advent of a period variously called the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Industry 4.0”, and “The Second Machine Age,” academic librarianship...
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2016-01-01
Book chapter preprint from Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to your Library's Licensed and Digitized Content, ed. Kenneth J Varnum (ALA, 2016).
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2021-04-29
Recent controversies in Canadian librarianship—the Toronto Public Library room rental to a "gender-critical feminist" group and the institution of “airport-style” security at the Winnipeg Public Library—have exposed divisions within the profession. This article attempts to untangle the...
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2007-01-01
This is journal article I wrote in 2007 and published in the now-defunct Library Student Journal. This is the text as I managed to save it before the journal folded, so there's no formatting. I just wanted to get this in a repository.
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2013-07-03
Report prepared for the Senior Leadership Team to recommend a discovery system.
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Librarians, Hackerspaces and Participating in Open-Source Projects
2013-10-01
Presentation for Netspeed 2013, Calgary Alberta, October 24/25 2013.
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2018-03-27
This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within the profession are due to material changes in the organization of production and labour relations. These changes are part of a transition from one “regime of accumulation” (industrial, Fordist,...
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Proxying the Data Body: Artificial Intelligence, Federated Identity, and Machinic Subjection
Download2020-08-06
Academic libraries have recently seen a shift from self-management of user-authentication of licensed resources themselves, to cloud-based implementations of "federated identity" technologies. Such technologies aim to solve the problems of fragile access to licensed resources while also better...