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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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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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2019-06-25
Recent work on “surveillance” and “platform” capitalism propose that the adjectives mark out something new and unprecedented. However, both electronic surveillance and online platforms are part of a larger ecosystem which combines machine learning algorithms and Big Data to draw conclusions and...
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Open Ideas@UAL 2019 Book of Abstracts
2019-04-05
University of Alberta Libraries
This is the program listing and book of abstracts from the 2019 Open Ideas @UAL is a research symposium that provides UofA libraries academic staff a chance to present their completed and in-progress research. The symposium provides a supportive environment for new and emerging researchers...