Media

Talks, keynotes and conference notes, with the text of each where it was written out. Longer published work is listed under Publications; shorter posts are on the blog.

Keynotes and invited talks

YearTalk
2018Libraries in the Context of Capitalism — reading of library budgets as labour budgets
2018Critical Art Librarianship conference — keynote on making library work visible
2016Intersections with Power: Critical Teaching and the Library Catalogue — WILU keynote address
2016WILU 2016 — full text of the conference keynote
2016What Standards Do and What They Don't — long-form talk on information literacy standards

Panels, forums and workshops

YearAppearance
2019Organization of American Historians conference — panel chair, with the framing remarks
2018Are libraries neutral? — commenter in a debate on neutrality
2016SPARC and ACRL Forum at ALA Annual — remarks on open access and journal flipping
2016Information Literacy Summit — invited address
2016Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies colloquium — report back
2016ACLCP Spring Workshop — workshop notes

Radio, podcasts and press

Conversations about library work, budgets and catalogues, recorded elsewhere.

DateConversation
February 2022The necessity of a public library system — a long conversation with Lydia Gale about why public libraries hold a city together, and what happens to a neighbourhood when its branch closes
February 2022Library Workers Unite: unionization efforts grow across all sectors — reporting by Amy Rae on bargaining in academic and public libraries, with comments on what library labour actually costs
2019Bias in the library catalogue — a radio segment on subject headings, and why the words a catalogue uses decide what readers can find

Interviews and shorter pieces

Written interviews and conference write-ups are listed on the blog; the Publications page lists the printed versions.