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Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship | Revue canadienne de bibliothéconomie universitaire

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Reminder: there are only 10 days left to submit to our latest CFP! ⌛

We are inviting submissions to our special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements.

Learn more and submit your proposal by Dec. 18: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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Libraries have long served as mediators between people and technologies, from catalogues to databases to digitized surrogates. Recent literature has called for academic libraries to position themselves as leaders in advancing AI literacy, framing its adoption as both inevitable and essential. Yet as access to information becomes increasingly privatized through corporate-controlled platforms and as generative AI comes to dominate professional discourse and reshape user expectations, the stakes of these entanglements demand critical reflection. How do libraries reconcile their commitments to access, equity, sustainability, and integrity with the next wave of transformation, one that exacerbates preexisting pressures and generates new ones around concepts like surveillance, labour precarity, intellectual property, and environmental harm?
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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In "The Economics of Identity: How EDI Initiatives Treat Racialized Identities as Currency in Academic Libraries," Liu examines and critiques top-down institutional EDI policies and plans from Canadian academic libraries.

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“[The diversity model and racial capitalism] serve to enhance the deficit narrative and treat racialized identities as currency with exchange value: this serves to further entrench structures that replicate systemic racial inequities. Within the confines of racial capitalism, race thus becomes a resource to be extracted and exploited.” Liu 2024
March 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Tinajero-Vazquez & Carr reflect on their experiences as an intern and supervisor navigating traditional and antiquated norms upheld in academia in "Cultural Wealth, Co-creation, and Conversations: Reimagining Academic Internships."

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"The exchange of labour for experience creates inequities and perpetuates the extractive relationship between libraries and BIPOC employees." Tinajero-Vazquez & Carr 2024.
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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In "Extraction on Display," Salas Landa & Xu provide an excellent reflection on how they use object-centered research to encourage students to explore the extractive practices that have shaped museum and library collections.

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“By critically examining the provenance, trajectories, and decontextualization of objects, students confront how libraries and museums have extracted materials produced by marginalized groups and how these violent histories are rarely taught or confronted, allowing for their reproduction.” Salas Landa & Xu 2024
March 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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How do we identify primary and secondary sources? What does this mean for Indigenous knowledge and authorities? Watkins and Randall call on librarians to critically assess their roles in maintaining colonial structures.

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“The way primary and secondary sources are classified and taught by librarians and the academy reflects power, reinforces dominant systems, and enables the extraction of Indigenous Knowledge.” Watkins & Randall 2024
February 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Kersting-Lark, Kenyon, & Seiferle-Valencia define and challenge institutional "pioneer veneration" in libraries and archives in their article from our recent special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction.

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“In practice, pioneer veneration manifests in settler histories being carefully preserved and uncritically reproduced in institutional collections, in the stories told by and about colonization, and in the voices and perspectives excluded or only included for extractive aims.” Kersting-Lark, Kenyon, & Seiferle-Valencia 2024
February 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Have you read "What No Means: Indigenous Feminist Refusal to Library Extraction" by @desmondcwong.bsky.social?
Check it out here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja...

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“Libraries that do not strive to be reciprocal and transformational in their relationships with Indigenous peoples will only serve as a barrier to Indigenous resurgence. Instead, we must reconceptualize librarianship practices toward a liberatory practice.” Wong 2024
February 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM